Episodes

  • # 94 The California Skywatcher: A conversation with author William Selby
    May 3 2024

    Where to find the best weather forecast and why it is always right.
    What about the Big Sur weather?
    Will we survive the upcoming weather?
    Plus many more questions answered by:
    Author and Earth Scientist William Selby!
    www.rediscoveringthegoldenstate.com

    >>>>>>>>>>

    National Weather Service
    Bjorn Lomborg

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    1 hr and 42 mins
  • # 93 My Father Shot a Tiger: Talking about Nagaland with Easterine Kire
    Apr 22 2024

    Easterine Kire
    Nagaland
    Sky is My Father by Easterine Kire
    __________


    Early impressions of Nagaland / short video
    Talking to you from a rooftop in Viswema / short video
    __________

    Languages disappearing
    __________

    Writers we mention:
    Chinua Achebe, Nigeria
    Ngugi wa Thiongo, Nigeria
    Amos Tutuola, Nigeria (YORUBA)
    Hugh MacLennan, Canada
    Sigrid Undset, Norway
    Karin Fossum, Norway
    _____________

    Thank you Easterine!




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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • # 92 How did it begin...did I meet "Headhunters?" Why, and how, did I travel up into these hills.
    Apr 11 2024

    An unusual episode recorded in Dibrugarh, Shiyong and Mokokchung. Town and villages in NE India.

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    52 mins
  • # 91 Listening to Whales breathe! A conversation with Kerri Frangioso, a scientist who does most of her research in the wild of Big Sur.
    Mar 25 2024

    Kerri Frangioso / Rizzo Lab.
    Kerri Frangioso / UC Davis
    Plant Pathology / Davis
    Sudden Oak Death Task Force
    >>>>>>>
    The Jade Festival
    Big Creek Reserve
    White Stag
    >>>>>>>

    Sudden Oak Blitz, April 29th

    Essalen Tribe

    Soberanes Fire

    Telephone Landline

    Satellite

    the ‘Hoist’

    280 plots!

    Prudoe Bay

    Costa Rica

    Food supplies

    Fire prevention

    Gardening

    Water and gravity

    Pampas

    Invasive Species

    LUP

    Madrones excude sap and its yummy!

    Peacocks!

    Santa Lucia Fir

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    2 hrs and 6 mins
  • # 90 Israel and Gaza. Perspectives on the war in Gaza from Sweden.
    Mar 17 2024

    I have Magnus Norell and Ricki Neuman, both from Sweden, with me for this episode. We are talking about what is going on in Israel and Gaza.

    Magnus Norell
    Ricki Neuman

    >>>>>>>

    I mention:
    Raja Shehadeh.
    Yossi Klein Halevi
    (
    We carry titles by both Shehadeh and Halevi at the Library)
    Sderot

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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • # 89 SMOKESCREEN | Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate
    Mar 10 2024

    A conversation with the author Chad Hanson, PhD

    The short musical intro is: CANYON live at Nepenthe’s Halloween Bal Masqué 2002.

    Important links for further information:

    The John Muir Project
    Big Sur Fire
    Fire Adapted Big Sur
    Fire in Paradise, PBS, Frontline




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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • # 88 California (& Big Sur) Snakes & How To Find Them
    Feb 23 2024

    To Mom & Pop, who brought me up to believe I could become anything.
    I don’t think they meant a snake biologist. But here we are... /
    E. Taylor

    >>>>>>>

    A conversation with Dr Emily Taylor about snakes and her upcoming book:
    California Snakes & How To Find Them.

    >>>>>>>

    Professor of Biological Sciences
    Interim Associate Dean, Bailey College of Science and Mathematics
    Director, Physiological Ecology of Reptiles Laboratory
    www.EmilyTaylorScience.com
    How to be a Herpetologist

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • # 87 Sam Goldeen. From the Ukraine, via the Panama land crossing, to Big Sur!
    Feb 20 2024

    Sam Goldeen lived for many years on Partington Ridge in Big Sur. He loved it here and "A Big Sur Podcast" is proud of having his voice be part of what we have to share!

    Sam's obituary in the Pine Cone.

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    1 hr and 5 mins