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.
- Visit Website
- RSS
- Artist: KQED Public Radio
- Copyright: KQED, Inc.
Podcasts:
A boyhood summer camp tradition formed the core philosophy that has guided Steve Hettleman through decades of teaching.
They're tiny but collectively much bigger than us. And Michael Ellis says they do much we should emulate.
Paul Staley argues that homelessness isn't a crisis: It's something much worse.
Asking for help when you need it can be hard, as Jennifer Abrams knows all too well.
John Storella cites two short passages in the Declaration of Independence that sum up the entire philosophy of American governance.
We're hard at work planning our upcoming live shows, so we bring you this favorite from the last year: Spanx. At 27, Sara Blakely was selling fax machines and desperate to reinvent her life. So she came up with Spanx — hosiery that eliminates panty lines — and set to work building her business. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," we check back with Chandra Arthur of the friend-matching app Friendish, and how it was recently featured on the show, Planet of the Apps.
Sandhya Acharya copes with her young son's obsession with finishing first.
Back before there was an app for everything, Marilyn Englander’s nanny could engineer solutions to any problem.
Youth Radio’s Emiliano Villa has worked hard to pay for college because his family lives on the financial edge.
Trainer and fitness expert Patty Wortham says that for her Bay Area clients what’s often most out-of-shape is their hands.
As the health care debate builds in Washington, Rob Tufel looks at how to influence it.
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," how Whitney Sokol created SproutFit — adjustable onesies and leggings that grow with your baby.
It wasn’t a bucket list or sense of adventure that got Luke Pease to the top of Yosemite’s Half Dome.
Andrew Lewis’ work with at-risk and foster youth is all about overcoming everyday obstacles to a successful life.
Young Beau Detels learns there's another life at the end of his fishing line.
