KQED's Perspectives

Ellen Greenblatt’s encounter with a fox brings home the compelling mystery of creatures that can’t talk to us.

Dick Meister reviews the often-taken-for-granted benefits unions have won for the American worker.

In 2007, architect Miguel McKelvey convinced his friend Adam Neumann to share an office space in Brooklyn. That was the beginning of WeWork: a shared workspace for startups and freelancers looking for an inspiring environment to do their work. Today, WeWork has created a "community of creators" valued at nearly $16 billion. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," we check back with Kristel Gordon who invented a solution for easily stuffing a duvet back into its cover – it's called Duvaid. (Original broadcast date: June 19, 2017.)

"To Kill a Mockingbird" still inspires Meg Waite Clayton to be a better person and a better writer.

Youth Radio’s Olivia Monforte’s father is a Ph.d chemist, but an interest in science hasn’t come easily to her.

Sam Robinson is looking for work. So he waits for the email that will change his life. . .and waits. . .and waits.

A paralyzing accident at an early age didn’t keep Cinda Wert Rapp from a rewarding teaching career.

In 1997, Navy SEAL Randy Hetrick was deployed in Southeast Asia, where he was stationed in a remote warehouse for weeks with no way to exercise. So he grabbed an old jujitsu belt, threw it over a door, and started doing pull-ups. Today, TRX exercise straps dangle from the ceiling in gyms across the country and are standard workout gear for professional athletes. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," we check back with a husband-and-wife team who experimented with fruit, spices and vinegar and came up with a gourmet ketchup line called 'Chups. (Original broadcast date: June 26, 2017).

Teacher Chad Evans takes his students to the border, where the rubber of immigration issues meet the road of reality.

Marilyn Englander’s friends show her that retirement has little to do with slowing down or retreating.

Babysitters are girls, right? Teenager Gabriel Moussa has learned that men can be victims of sexist thinking, too.

Bay Area traffic tests the nerves and good sense of countless drivers. On a local freeway the other day Jonathan Slusher found his buttons pushed and his better judgment severely challenged.

Richard Swerdlow considers street-based charity fundraisers known as ‘chuggers’.

In 1995, Angie Hicks spent months going door-to-door in Columbus, Ohio, trying to get people to sign up for a new home services referral business. Today, Angie's List is a household name, referring millions of members to plumbers, painters, and more. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," we check back with Joel Crites who created the app Micro Fantasy, where fans can make predictions about what will happen next in a baseball game. (Original broadcast date: November 28, 2016)

The Golden Gate Bridge isn't golden and the Golden Gate has nothing to do with the Gold Rush. Michael Ellis says why the Gate is Golden.