Host Dave Schlom visits with best-selling author and award-winning anthropologist Meredith F. Small to talk about her new book, Here Begins The Dark Sea: Venice, a Medieval Monk and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map of The World.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom says his administration is working on emergency legislation. Earlier this month, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that a near-total abortion ban could take effect.
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Chico community activists reflect on memorial in Children’s Park they created for children killed in Gaza. Also, Chico State is awaiting lab confirmation about a potential tuberculosis case on campus, and two North State jurisdictions are set to receive millions of dollars in aid as part of a large scale initiative by Gov. Gavin Newsom to get people experiencing homelessness into housing.
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Artist Dana Moore discusses improv's origins and fundamental rules, emphasizing the importance of listening and its benefits for anxiety.
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Host Dave Schlom visits with one of the world's foremost experts on sharks, Dr. David Ebert.
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Chico performance artist Dana Moore creates room for those who are looking to leave their comfort zone with her latest improv class starting in May. Also, tomorrow Butte County will hold the first of 11 meetings scheduled throughout the county regarding updating its evacuation maps, and the Chico City Council recently decided to keep a restriction on liquor licenses downtown.
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After a financial backer of CapRadio donated one of its broadcasting towers to KVIE following calls for a merger between the two public media stations, management of the Sacramento NPR member station argues they ‘definitively’ own the tower.
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Researchers have been able to reverse the effects of a syndrome that affects brain development in a brain organoid. (This story first aired on All Things Considered on April 24, 2024.)
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to a patron of the party, musician George Brown of the band Kool & The Gang, about his new book, new record, and the "Celebration" of a long and funky career.
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Historical Markers in the US are fascinating, sometimes wrong, sometimes offensive and cruel. But they also have the power to unlock secrets, like those of a long forgotten Civil Rights cold case.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Minhal Baig, who wrote and directed the new movie "We Grown Now." It's about two kids in the Cabrini-Green housing projects in Chicago in the early 1990s.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Sarah Ludington of Duke University's School of Law about the first amendment protections for students who are protesting on college campuses.
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A cult leader in Kenya was charged with murder after the discovery last year of more than 400 bodies in a remote forest. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to journalist Carey Baraka about the case.
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