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:
Everyone likes a good laugh, but Richard Friedlander says figuring out what makes something funny is tough.
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau looks at just some of the body parts whose names have their origin in the animal kingdom.
Carol Denney pays tribute to the late Hate Man, a philosophic Berkeley eccentric long associated with People’s Park.
Carol Arnold struggles to cope with her daily dread that the world is falling apart.
Barbara Corcoran grew up in a working-class Irish Catholic family in Jersey – with nine brothers and sisters. But she used her charisma to conquer the streets of Manhattan and build the real estate company, The Corcoran Group. She then reinvented herself as a shark – on Shark Tank.
Parenting any child is hard work, but parenting a disabled child has its added challenges, and rewards. Jolie Kanat has this Perspective.
Whitney Heavner is a driver and a cyclist. She knows the safety of both depend on each other.
Both children and drug addiction are common sights in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, and Dr. Andrew Desruisseau says the mix argues for a solution adopted by one American city.
High school freshman Jane Lee struggled with stereotypes of female beauty until she realized that no one is beautiful the way she is beautiful.
Truth can be hard to know. A good eye for lies isn’t a bad substitute. Here's Les Bloch's Perspective:
Brian Scudamore didn't dream of a life hauling away other people's trash. But when he needed to pay for college, he bought a $700 pickup truck, painted his phone number on the side, and started hauling. Now 1-800-GOT-JUNK? makes over $200 million in annual revenue.
A solitary walk in a wooded glen reminds Deidre Silverman that everything is part of the great circle of life
Richard Swerdlow looks at not just what he pays in taxes, but what his taxes buy.
Adam Browning thinks that the times demand not just new English words but a new tense -- the ‘past prohibitive’.
Does The Resistance include bailing on chamber music concerts at Mar-a-Lago with your mom? Evan Sagerman had to decide.
