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One Blade of Grass: A Zen m...

11.14.2019

Henry Shukman, director of the Mountain Cloud Zen Center, talks about his new memoir, "One Blade of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart."

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11.14.2019 One Blade of Grass: A Zen memoir Henry Shukman, director of the Mountain Cloud Zen Center, talks about his new memoir, "One Blade of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart."
11.11.2019 How intelligent is artificial intelligence, anyway? We talk to Santa Fe Institute and Portland State University computer scientist Melanie Mitchell about her new book, “Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans.”
11.07.2019 Seven improbable food cities Santa Fe author Mark Winne’s new book, “Food Town, USA: Seven Unlikely Cities That are Changing the Way We Eat,” is not just a food travelogue, but also the story of how American cities are rebuilding themselves and their local ...
11.04.2019 Photographing myths and realities of the American West Photographer Joan Myers has spent over 40 years making images of the American West—not the grand, majestic landscapes of previous generations, but complex, layered images of decaying icons, strange cultural juxtapositions and the myths that underly our sense of place.
10.31.2019 Motherhood, Barbells & T-Shots Mona Malec’s one-woman show, "Motherhood, Barbells & T-Shots," is a powerful story about having a transgender child in a world where acceptance and understanding are hard won. We talk to Mona and director Rod Harrison.
10.28.2019 City Council Candidates 2019 We talk to City Council candidates from districts 2 and 4. Districts 1 and 3 have uncontested races this year. Election day is Tuesday, Nov 5, and early voting runs through Nov. 2.
10.24.2019 The oil and gas boom—a mixed blessing for New Mexicans The current fossil fuel boom in southeastern New Mexico comes with difficulties for workers and residents—impossible housing prices, inadequate infrastructure, and strain on workers both in and outside the industry. Santa Fe New Mexican reporter Jens Erik Gould reports.
10.21.2019 Documenting an Indigenous Day of the Dead Santa Fe's Metamorfosis Documentation Project goes to Latin America to document indigenous traditional ceremonies and ways of life that are under threat from modernization. We talk about the new documentary film about the Tzintzuntzan celebration in a P’urhépecha community in ...
10.17.2019 Santa Fe Independent Film Festival We talk to four filmmakers from the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival about everything from indigenous rights to the Louisiana Bayou to the unraveling of a suburban housewife.
10.14.2019 How to find a lost, ancient Mesoamerican city Steve Elkins is a filmmaker and, above all, an explorer. Flying over the rainforest with lidar technology, he found an ancient city—complete with pyramids and plazas—and put together a team of scientists, filmmakers and journalists to explore and document the ...
10.10.2019 Superminds All of us are part of a collective intelligence—from our communities, to our workplaces, to our governments. We talk to MIT professor Tom Malone about how artificial intelligence and information technology can make our group mind smarter—and more democratic.
10.07.2019 The Once and Future Child "The Once and Future Child: A Photographic History of Childhood in New Mexico" is an exhibit that traces the history of childhood in New Mexico over the last century. We talk with photographer Don Usner and writer Bill DeBuys about ...
10.03.2019 Becoming a Dangerous Woman That’s the name of Pat Mitchell’s book, a memoir of her career in media. She was the first woman head of PBS and has been a lifelong pioneer in women’s media and leadership. She’ll be at Collected Works Bookstore at ...
09.30.2019 Why discipline and punishment don’t help children—or anyone around them Dr. Ross Greene has been working with so-called problem kids for years, and has found what’s really going on with them — and it can’t be solved through punishment, reward or other behavior modification systems. He explains the fundamentals of ...
09.26.2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes' trilogy comes to Santa Fe Three Santa Fe theater companies collaborate to bring audiences The Elliot Trilogy by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes. We talk to director Alix Hudson.
09.23.2019 Paul Watson and Dave Foreman on pirate ships and monkey wrenching Paul Watson’s ships had giant blades on the front to tear open the hulls of illegal whaling ships; Dave Foreman’s stealthy conservationists stood up to loggers, corporations and law enforcement—all in the service of species that cannot protect themselves. We ...
09.19.2019 Big data vs. the little virus Lauren Ancel Meyers is a professor of both integrative biology and statistics and data science. She combines these fields to make models of epidemics—to help us prevent, mitigate and treat things like influenza, zika and other potentially life-threatening illnesses. She ...
09.16.2019 So, is there intelligent life beyond earth? Paul Davies is an astrophysicist and astrobiologist whose book "The Eerie Silence" is an exploration of the search for intelligent life in the universe. But what is “life,” and what is “intelligence?” And what is the likelihood of life forming ...
09.12.2019 Young New Mexicans take action on climate change While politicians and other adults have brought the world to the edge of catastrophic climate disruption, young people all over the globe are organizing and taking action. We speak to four young New Mexicans about the upcoming General Climate Strike ...
09.09.2019 Tewa Women United Thirty years ago, a group of pueblo women started getting together to talk about their problems and issues, including everything from child rearing, to trauma, culture and politics. Now, Tewa Women United is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a series ...
09.05.2019 544 days in an Iranian prison: Jason Rezian Jason Rezian was the Washington Posts’s Teheran correspondent when he and his wife were taken away at gunpoint and accused of a bizarre list of crimes. His new book, “Prisoner,” details the harrowing 18 months in Iranian prison, and the ...
08.29.2019 The sad fate of Anna, Age Eight How can the fruits of Silicon Valley high tech be used to keep our children safe? Dr. Katherine Ortega Courtney’s new book, "Anna, Age Eight," is about how to prevent child abuse and trauma by improving the systems within social ...
08.26.2019 Homeopathy: Hoax or healing? Laurel Chiten’s documentary "Just One Drop" looks at the history of this alternative healing practice—the controversy, the efficacy and the mystery surrounding what was once—and in many places still is—an accepted practice.
08.22.2019 Teenage tragedy in Albuquerque Aurra Gardner had everything going for her—talented musician, creative artist, beloved daughter and older sister—but she chose to end her own life at 16. How can we understand her story — and the stories of other suffering families? Nick Pachelli ...
08.19.2019 Report from the border with Jens Erik Gould Migration policies continually changing; migrants in danger from both cartels and police; insufficient work, shelter and service; shortage of immigration attorneys and judges. These are just some of the circumstances encountered by refugees on the Mexico-U.S. border. Santa Fe New ...
08.15.2019 Shadows of Doubt: Stereotyping and prejudice in the U.S. Santa Fe Institute economist Rajiv Sethi talks from an economics and social science perspective about stereotyping in the criminal justice system, and the resulting disparities in our communities.
08.12.2019 Mike Wallace—the man who asked the tough questions Avi Belkin’s new film, "Mike Wallace is Here," profiles the life of the influential broadcast journalist who inaugurated 60 Minutes, and whose life work brings up important questions about journalism today.
08.08.2019 Toxic neighbors: The demise of a dairy Searchlight New Mexico’s April Reese discusses her reporting on the effects of toxic chemicals from Cannon Air Force Base on local groundwater—and the severe toll these toxins have taken on the viability of a dairy business and the health of ...
08.05.2019 Mining in the Santa Fe National Forest? A mining company is exploring the possibility of mineral extraction in the National Forest near Pecos. We talk to two experts on the potential consequences to our state's air and water.
08.01.2019 Local food: 31 good reasons to eat it August has been dedicated “Local Food Connects” month, and we talk to local food advocate Denise Miller and farmer Alex Pino.
07.29.2019 Growing up with Leonard Bernstein Jamie Bernstein’s new memoir "Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein” is about the richness and challenges of growing up with her larger-than-life dad, Leonard Bernstein. With humor, honesty and insight, she recounts a life of both privilege ...
07.25.2019 Fixing democracy: A user’s guide We talk to Caroline Frederickson, president of the American Constitution Society, about her new book “The Democracy Fix: How to Win the Fight for Fair Rules, Fair Courts, and Fair Elections.”
07.22.2019 Dr. Bruce Perry on healing abused and neglected children Dr. Bruce Perry is author of the extraordinary book “The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook—What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing,” and he’s been instrumental in ...
07.18.2019 A poetry of listening to the earth Tim McLaughlin’s new book “Seeds Under the Tongue” is a compilation of poems, some of them inspired by a brush with death in a canyon that the author transformed into a ceremonial experience. McLaughlin’s work combines well-honed craft, inspiration and ...
07.15.2019 Allegra Love on immigrant prison camps: An attorney's perspective Central Americans faced with violence, murder, extortion, gangs and a breakdown of the rule of law are coming to the US to seek asylum—only to find chaos and squalor and on this side of the border. We talk to Allegra ...
07.11.2019 Roswell 2019: Aliens, UFOs and abductees The Roswell UFO Festival is a fascinating amalgam of people who believe in flying saucers, conspiracy theorists, those who believe that they’ve been abducted—and their therapists. We talk to four of them about their idiosyncratic beliefs and stories that defy ...
07.08.2019 Musicals about diesel and dog food? Yes, and they’re amazing Steve Young, comedy writer for Late Show with David Letterman, stumbled across the genre of “industrial musicals” that were huge but virtually unknown to the general public—until now. We talk about his book “Everything’s Coming Up Profits” and the documentary ...
07.04.2019 The Battle Hymn of the Republic: The song that marches on We talk to historian John Stauffer about his book "The Battle Hymn of the Republic: A Biography of the Song That Marches On."
07.01.2019 A transatlantic social experiment: The Raft In 1973, a Mexican anthropologist assembled a group of people from different countries, religions and cultures to cross the Atlantic on a raft with minimal comforts, no motor and a single sail. He was hoping to observe conflict and even ...
06.27.2019 Before Stonewall: Documenting LGBT history "Before Stonewall" is an award-winning and groundbreaking documentary from 1984 about LGBT America before 1969. We talk to co-director Robert Rosenberg about the making of the film, which includes elders who came of age in the 1920s, and the making ...
06.24.2019 Infidelity, bromance, and death from consumption: The Santa Fe Opera 2019 We talk to Santa Fe Opera dramaturg Cori Ellison about the operas in this summer’s season—history, production, casting and the beauty and drama of both classics and a world premiere.
06.20.2019 Kids with disabilities — and their parents — face harassment from schools Ed Williams of Searchlight New Mexico talks about children with severe disabilities in New Mexico public schools that not only don’t provide the services they need but actually call the police on them, and sometimes make false claims against their ...
06.17.2019 The Plague: How we got rid of it... and how it could come back David K. Randall’s new book "Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague” is the vividly told story of the advent of modern medicine, and the science and politics of the fight against ...
06.13.2019 Dr. Erica Elliott on medicine and miracles in Navajo Country At the age of 23, Erica Elliott went to teach school on the Navajo reservation. After a rocky beginning, she fell in love with the people and their culture—and witnessed miracles that even now as a medical doctor she cannot ...
06.10.2019 Breaking the chain of inequity in housing and transportation Tomás Rivera of the Chainbreaker Collective talks about what it will take to ensure fairness and equity for the most vulnerable people and neighborhoods in Santa Fe—especially as the former College of Santa Fe campus is developed.
06.06.2019 The struggle for pueblo sovereignty For centuries, pueblos have fought to assert and maintain their rights to land, water and self-determination. In the new book “Pueblo Sovereignty: Indian Land and Water in New Mexico and Texas,” historians Malcolm Ebright and Rick Hendricks explore the long ...
06.03.2019 From Monk to Money Manager Doug Lynam found his calling as a money manager while serving as a monk and taking care of the monastery’s finances. He brings spiritual, environmental and practical perspectives to his work. We talk about his new book “From Monk to ...
05.30.2019 Remembering Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann A tribute to the life of Nobel Prize-winning scientist and co-founder of the Santa Fe Institute, Murray Gell-Mann, who died on May 24. Gell-Mann discovered the subatomic particle the Quark, and worked in many disciplines, including linguistics, archaeology, history and ...
05.27.2019 Killers, covert agents, and bouncers: Your immune system at work Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Matt Richtel’s new book "An Elegant Defense" tells the story of how the human immune system works—and the stories of four people with extraordinary health challenges.
05.23.2019 Alice Guy-Blaché: the first woman filmmaker We talk to Pamela Green, writer and director of the documentary "Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché." It’s about an extraordinary woman whose name and work were, until recently, all but forgotten in the history of film.

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The Radio Café on Santafenewmexican.com episodes:

One Blade of Grass: A Zen memoir

How intelligent is artificial intelligence, anyway?

Seven improbable food cities

Photographing myths and realities of the American West

Motherhood, Barbells & T-Shots

City Council Candidates 2019

The oil and gas boom—a mixed blessing for New Mexicans

Documenting an Indigenous Day of the Dead

Santa Fe Independent Film Festival

How to find a lost, ancient Mesoamerican city

Superminds

The Once and Future Child

Becoming a Dangerous Woman

Why discipline and punishment don’t help children—or anyone around them

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes' trilogy comes to Santa Fe

Paul Watson and Dave Foreman on pirate ships and monkey wrenching

Big data vs. the little virus

So, is there intelligent life beyond earth?

Young New Mexicans take action on climate change

Tewa Women United

544 days in an Iranian prison: Jason Rezian

The sad fate of Anna, Age Eight

Homeopathy: Hoax or healing?

Teenage tragedy in Albuquerque

Report from the border with Jens Erik Gould

Shadows of Doubt: Stereotyping and prejudice in the U.S.

Mike Wallace—the man who asked the tough questions

Toxic neighbors: The demise of a dairy

Mining in the Santa Fe National Forest?

Local food: 31 good reasons to eat it

Growing up with Leonard Bernstein

Fixing democracy: A user’s guide

Dr. Bruce Perry on healing abused and neglected children

A poetry of listening to the earth

Allegra Love on immigrant prison camps: An attorney's perspective

Roswell 2019: Aliens, UFOs and abductees

Musicals about diesel and dog food? Yes, and they’re amazing

The Battle Hymn of the Republic: The song that marches on

A transatlantic social experiment: The Raft

Before Stonewall: Documenting LGBT history

Infidelity, bromance, and death from consumption: The Santa Fe Opera 2019

Kids with disabilities — and their parents — face harassment from schools

The Plague: How we got rid of it... and how it could come back

Dr. Erica Elliott on medicine and miracles in Navajo Country

Breaking the chain of inequity in housing and transportation

The struggle for pueblo sovereignty

From Monk to Money Manager

Remembering Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann

Killers, covert agents, and bouncers: Your immune system at work

Alice Guy-Blaché: the first woman filmmaker

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