KQED's Perspectives

It's Memorial Day and Winston Tharp has this tribute to a veteran whose promise was lost.

Christine Schoefer discovers that the secrets held in books are not always the work of authors.

For Maui-born Hiwa Greig spam has been a staple of their food and culture. But once they moved to Oakland, they realized folks hold a lot of preconceptions towards spam and those who eat it. This perspective was produced by YR Media.

A poem in a volume pulled from a bookstore shelf, helps Simone Green navigate her journey of discovery.

Conor Hagen discovers just how wonderful taste and smell are when COVID takes them away.

Taste and smell may be our senses most taken for granted, unless, that is, you’ve had COVID. Conor Hagen has this Perspective.

Vicki Larson wonders why old notions that women are little more than child bearers persist.

Margaret Stawowy, like most, wanted to keep her mother in familiar surroundings when she began to decline. It was easier said than done.

Feeling stressed out? A nice warm bath might help. But if that’s not practical, Carol Arnold can suggest a different kind of bath to soothe the anxious mind.

Craig Isom says the recent black hole images developed by the Event Horizon Telescope are evidence of the profound genius of Albert Einstein.

First-year medical student Brian Smith has seen the difference between guilt and shame in his patients and their families.

The world is full of busy, buzzing doers. But Lane Parker calmly weights when might be the right time to do most anything.

The world is full of doers, all busy and buzzing about just doing things, while the rest—people like Lane Parker—take a more measured approach, calmly weighing just when to do most anything.

Andrew Lewis finds himself and many friends in the pandemic of the vaccinated. 

Open space is essential to our well-being, whether it’s a high country wilderness or a patch of urban green. Jasmine Jaksic learns that a park is more than an amenity.