KQED's Perspectives

Our recent cold snap has Ann Manheimer reminiscing the virtues of real wintry weather.

Debbie Duncan is tested for genetic predisposition to certain diseases, with uncomfortable results.

Linda Gebroe loves the great outdoors, but not killing the things the walk, fly and swim in it.

Susan Dix Lyons is there as a Nicaraguan girl struggles with the pervasive shame of teen pregnancy.

Bhaskar Sompalli is stunned by a desperate man playing the Moonlight Sonata on a campus piano.

Laura Deck spends a week on a rural California cattle drive that's been an annual tradition for more than a century.

Wintering birds are flocking to the Delta, but none excites Michael Ellis as much as snow geese.

Dr. Tim Davern says a new hepatitis C therapy will revolutionize treatment of the dread disease.

Dr. Tim Davern says a new hepatitis C therapy will revolutionize treatment of the dread disease.

Monica Gyulai recalls her Berkeley activism on apartheid, when doing the right thing wasn't the obvious thing.

Monica Gyulai recalls her Berkeley activism on apartheid, when doing the right thing wasn't the obvious thing.

A fence separates two countries along our southern border, but Carol Arnold notes it also separates an ecosystem from itself.

Honeybees are in trouble. And because they are, says Holly Hubbard Preston, so are we.

Leafing through family photo albums, Richard Swerdlow realizes they're all photos of the same family — the human family.

Youth Radio's Rayana Godfrey may be young, but she's not immortal and she needs health insurance.