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UC Santa Barbara Professor and president of the American Academy of Religion Dr. Ann Taves joined Tim and me yesterday in the studio to discuss her new book Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things which explores the intersections between science and religion. Hear the podcast.
Dr. Giovanni Vigna, one of the UC Santa Barbara researchers who recently took down one of the largest online criminal networks talked with Tim and me on the radio this morning. He explained how he and the UCSB Computer Security Group foiled the Torpig Botnet which had nearly 200,000 zombie computers trolling for banks account numbers, passwords and personal data. Hear the conversation on this week’s podcast.
UC Santa Barbara Computer Science Professor Dr. Ben Zhao joined us on the radio this morning to talk about the privacy implications in the exploding social media scene in the wide world of Web 2.0. Listen to the podcast.
Twelve million people worldwide suffer from autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease or ADPKD. Here in the U.S. the number is larger than those affected by Down syndrome, muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anemia combined. Dr. Thomas Weimbs, associate professor and director of the Weimbs Lab at UC Santa Barbara talked with us this morning to discuss a potential drug treatment that he and his team are working on. Listen to the podcast.
My former neighbor and friend Ed Prado brought Christian Love, Randell Kirsch of his band 5-Alarm to the studio this morning for a live acoustic set from Studio A. The band has just returned from a tour of the Pacific Rim with the Beach Boys. The group shared stories from the tour and the latest on the progress with the band’s new album. Listen to the podcast for special live music and the interview. Visit myspace.com/5alarm for show dates.
Jim Prosser, the media relations manager at Santa Barbara-based Direct Relief International talked to Tim and I this morning about his organization’s relief efforts in the Caribbean and worldwide. Direct Relief International has helped bring tens of millions of dollars in medical aid to Haiti after the devastating earthquake there. Listen to the podcast.
The dean of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, Dr. Jane Close Conoley, visited with us this morning to talk about the Harding University Partnership between the University and Santa Barbara School Districts.The deal is designed to bring needed support to the struggling neighborhood school by implementing the International Baccalaureate model. Visit the podcast page for more info including audio of the interview.
Julia Nagy, the executive director of the Tri-Counties Division of the American Heart Association was in studio today with Tim and me on Intents & Purposes to talk about the 2010 Go Red For Women campaign along with the event’s chair Janet Garufis who is also the president and CEO of Montecito Bank and Trust. The Heart Association will host a Women’s Health Expo fundraiser on March 5, 2010 at Fess Parker’s Double Tree Resort. We discussed building healthier lives free of cardiovascular disease and stroke and simple ways to make big healthy changes. Check out this week’s podcast page.
We had our first guest on KCSB this morning: Director of UCSB’s Meso American Research Center and the recipient of the 2000 Rolex Award for Enterprise, Dr. Anabel Ford. She has been studying of the ancient city of El Pilar for decades. This historic Maya community is on the border of Belize and Guatemala. Dr. Ford contests, contrary to many of her colleagues, that El Pilar is a model of the sustainable practice of “forest gardening.” She and her team have worked to study, understand and preserve El Pilar. Check it out on this week’s podcast page.
Tim and I kicked of our KCSB premiere with Cathy Murillo, KCSB’s news director. Cathy highlighted the station’s important roles in the community with coverage of distinguished visitors like the Dalai Lama, and emergency news coverage of local wildfires and floods. Check out this week’s podcast page.
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