Step Into Africa exhibit

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 25 May 2010 12:00:00 +0100

What is it like growing up in the areas of Africa that have been ravaged by the AIDS epidemic? A traveling exhibit visiting Santa Rosa this week supplies some first-hand answers.

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Enmanji Temple

Bruce Robinson — Mon, 03 May 2010 06:00:00 +0100

Sebastopol’s Enmanji Temple, a cornerstone of the area’s Japanese culture, is the subject of a short documentary film that reveals a key episode in the preservation of the historic structure.

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Bruce Robinson — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:00:00 +0100

One little-reported consequence of the war in Iraq has been the displacement of an estimated 2 million former citizens who have fled to neighboring nations or even further. Their story is the subject of Eclipse of the Sunnis, a new book by NPR Mideast correspondent Deborah Amos.

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Foreclosures Part 1

Bruce Robinson — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100

The wave of home foreclosures that swept California in 2008 and 2009 has not gone away. In some ways, it may be getting worse.

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Ecoliteracy in Bhutan

Bruce Robinson — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:00:00 +0100

The modern idea of sustainability education in northern California is also finding a home in the schools of a small ancient culture nestled high in the Himalayas.

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"The Empathic Civilization"

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:00:00 +0100

Empathy, not self-interest, is the core impulse of human nature, according to social analyst Jeremy Rifkin. And that realization may hold the key to successfully responding to the environmental and economic challenges that now confront humanity.

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"The Harvard Psychedelic Club"

Bruce Robinson — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:00:00 +0100

Much of the social upheaval of the 1960s can be traced back to four men at Harvard University at the beginning of the decade, contends journalist Don Lattin. His new book, The Harvard Psychedelic Club, does exactly that.

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Bruce Robinson — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:00:00 +0100

To the Rev. Scotty McLennan, Jesus was a man who told stories and spoke in metaphors, who respected the science of his day, and who emerged from his mystical sojourn in the desert with a radical message about the power of love.

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Memorial Hospital Union Vote

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:00:00 +0100

Charges and countercharges are mounting in the run-up to next week’s union representation election at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.

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Schindler Exhibit

Bruce Robinson — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:00:00 +0100

The story of German factory owner Oskar Schindler and the hundreds of Jews he shielded from the Nazis has been a successful novel and an award-winning film. Now his actual history is coming to the Petaluma Museum.

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Voyage of Discovery

Bruce Robinson — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:00:00 +0100

There’s nothing like seeing other parts of the world first-hand to give one a different perspective on “home.” A Sonoma State professor who did just that last summer with his students in the international Semester at Sea program, reports back.

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Catholic Charities

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Official statistics on poverty in America tell barely half the story, even before the current recession kicked in, says the leader of a national anti-poverty effort, while the recovery now being forecast will take months or more to trickle down to the nation’s neediest citizens.

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Ali Biography

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100

The most famous and successful boxer of the late 20th century, Muhammad Ali, was both a symbol and a product of the turbulent times he lived through.

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In Darwin's Footsteps

Bruce Robinson — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:00:00 +0100

The world has changed in many ways in the 150 years since Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species." But much remains the same on the Galapagos Islands that inspired his famous theory. {mp3remote}http://media.krcb.org/audio/nbr/5-20-09.mp3{/mp3remote}

Sonoma State University is adding a new minor in Jewish Studies, a first step toward a full curriculum in Religious Studies

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Professor Mike Ezra says the addition of Jewish Studies courses at Sonoma State should help develoRead More...

Guantanamo Muslims

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:00:00 +0100

Anti-Muslim attitudes run so deep at Guantanamo Bay that even an American Army chaplain sent there to minister to the detainees in their own faith wound up imprisoned and abused.

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Away With All Gods

Bruce Robinson — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:00:00 +0100

Is believing in gods harmful to humankind? Sunsara Taylor believes it is.

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Throughout human history cultures around the globe have developed complex systems of gods and religion. But Taylor questions the idea that these beliefs grow out of an innate aspect of human nature.

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