KQED's Perspectives
Summary: Perspectives is KQED Public Radio's series of daily commentaries by our listeners. Essays cover a broad range of social and political issues, cultural observations and personal experiences of interest to KQED's Northern California audience.
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Podcasts:
Its not only possible to believe two contradictory things at the same time, Les Bloch says its necessary.
Linda Gebroe is one person of two opinions on the topic of the Blue Angels.
Pamela Kan is on a mission to change potential employees' attitudes about a manufacturing career.
In 1983, two hippie farmers decided to sell homemade organic yogurt to help raise money for their educational farm in New Hampshire. As the enterprise grew into a business, it faced one near-death experience after another, but it never quite died. In fact it grew — into one of the most popular yogurt brands in the US. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," how Indiana Jones inspired Steve Humble to sell secret passageways for a living.
The best medicine Dr. Baldeep Singh could prescribe might be better housing and a living wage.
Why do palm trees survive hurricanes better than other vegetation? Michael Ellis has the answer.
During his first visit to Seattle in 1981, Howard Schultz walked into a little coffee bean shop called Starbucks and fell in love with it. A few years later, he bought the six-store chain for almost 4 million dollars, and began to transform it into a ubiquitous landmark, a "third place" between home and work. Today Starbucks is the third largest restaurant chain in the world, serving about 100 million people a week. Recorded live in Seattle.
Youth Radio's Stella Lau didn't get the college acceptance letter she expected. Now its time for Plan B.
Dr. Jay Lalezari says it takes both 'pragmatists' and 'activists' for movements to succeed.
Peter Andrus works through which of his many books must go and which must stay.
We're hard at work planning more live shows, so we bring you one of our favorites from last year: Southwest Airlines. In 1968, competitors sued to keep Herb Kelleher's new airline grounded. After a 3-year court fight, the first plane took off from Dallas. Today Southwest Airlines operates nearly 4,000 flights a day. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," how Monica Mizrachi and her son Solomon built EzPacking, a family business selling packing cubes.
The children have left the nest and Mac Clayton is dealing with a loss of identity.
The carnage of the Vietnam war cost two counties boundless human potential. Winston Tharp remembers one life lost.
Dennis Holahan served on a Navy boat in I Corps, but when he was done with Vietnam, Vietnam was not done with him.
Lauren Vuong endured a horrifying journey when her family escaped post-war Vietnam in a small wooden boat.
