Interview with Mo Costandi, "neuroscientist by training; writer by inclination", author of Neurophilosophy on ScienceBlogs.com. The Science News from Science Daily (with background music by Stereolab): Exercise Prevents Decline in Memory after Whole-Brain Radiation Therapy /

Implanting Bad Memories in Bugs /

Chili Peppers (capsaicin) May Reduce Pain /

How the Moon's Surface Generates Water /

DJ Prefect interviews Linda Stone, author of the piece Email Apnea on the remarkably broad consequences of shallow breathing and their implications in Western culture. Meanwhile, Things Fall Apart at Pirate Cat Radio...

a double-interview on Common Threads, Sept 4, 2009: Jerry Paffendorf, the near-mythical tri-coastal (SF, NY, Detroit) futurist/entrepreneur, and the editor and creator of a new Apocalyptica zine in SF both come talk to Diamond Dave and Naomi Most for interviews. Naomi wants to know about the MakeLoveLand project to get people to invest $1 per inch in a million inches of detroit property (what kind of investment in that??) while Dave finds the common thread with Grace Lee Boggs, long-time organizer and protector of urban Detroit.

How Parasitic Capitalism Consumes, Confines and Controls. July 31, 2009. Featuring Daniel Coffeen, PhD. DJ Prefect brings her certified scientism to a discussion of an emergent socioeconomic system that trivializes art, literature, health, and leisure even while obesity and chronic diseases rise and science literacy reaches all time lows. How did we get here and where are we going? Jane, get us off this crazy thing!

YARR! Subversive Science takes over Charm School and delves into science news: Sweden puts "climate control" labels on food; MIT radio-tracking 3000 individual pieces of trash; evolutionary psychology falling out of favor; and some makedy-up news from the Onion that left many real-life researcher friends rolling in the aisles this week. Backing music from the Animatrix soundtrack, and of course tons of physics, health, memetics, and philosophy conversation. Because that's what you do when you hang out with Kiefer. Apologies for the low level on Kiefer's microphone - technical difficulties.

Part two of our hijacking of the normally scheduled Charm School broadcast on Pirate Cat Radio. In this part, intern Mark drops in on our philosphical science conversation... and certainly makes a sort of mark on the radio. What's it like to try to argue phenomenology with someone who conflates free will with anarchism? FIND OUT! (yeeeesh)

The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs - pages 96-98 - an excerpt that most pronouncedly outlines Burroughs' take on the cultural virus that is capitalism

The Periodic Apocalypse: Occasional Lectures on the End of the World series kicks off on April 22, 2009, with a lively discussion featuring Dr. Kirsten Sanford (This Week in Science) and Brian Malow (the Science Comedian).

The H1N1 virus emerged from Mexico in late March, borne on the sneezes of swines, and made its way into the US in a matter of days. The media responded in their usual hysterical way, inciting fear and panic around the world.

Our program states facts about Swine Flu (H1N1), debunks the myths, and looks at the consequences of media misrepresentation and its effects in a society that is generally unable to differentiate between truth and fabrication.

We also get a little silly. :)

This program was recorded live, with a live studio audience, at the Pirate Cat Radio Cafe in the Mission district of San Francisco at 21st and Florida, on April 22nd, 2009.

A mini-interview with the owner and proprietor of Volt-Aged Whiskey, who were providing their signature Jacob's-ladder-distilled spirits at last night's Dorkbot 7th Anniversary Party.