Future News - Curiousity and Snowdon on the Move, Glass catches arrest on Jersey Shore, Guest Kelly Durkin on the Fijian Experience

Listen to Dr. Future Show 7.09.13 Kelly Durkin

This week, NASA’s Martian Curiousity rover is on the move, Glass catches it’s first arrest, and we catch up with Kelly Durkin, on her quest to build an eco resort in a very remote area of the planet, the island of Koro in Fiji.  She shares with us her experiences and insights into the local people, who were catapulted very quickly into the 21st century, especially lately with the recent advent of smart phones in just the last few years.  What could our sophisticated minds learn from these recent stone age people of our species?  Kelly clues us in..

Photo by Peter Booth Lee 

Guest - Physicist Poet Dr. Len Anderson

Listen Now to Len Anderson

We had a an opportunity to meet Len Anderson last weekend and had a very stimulating conversation on physics and art and various other sundry topics.. simply delightful!  To make a long story short, we invited him to our show this week to share him with you, including his unique Science meets Art poetry.

 

Len Anderson has a BA and PhD in Physics from UC Berkeley.  He worked for four years in experimental elementary particle physics and nearly 16 years at Measurex Corporation (now part of Honeywell), developing sensors for the automation of paper manufacturing.  He and his wife have lived in Live Oak since 1998.

Len has been writing poetry since 1985 and has studied with Richard Maxwell, Robert Bly, Joseph Stroud, Joseph McNeilly and Sally Ashton.  His work has appeared in a variety of literary journals, anthologies and other publications.  He is a winner of the Dragonfly Press Poetry Competition, the Mary Lönnberg Smith Poetry Award (Cabrillo College), has received a Pushcart nomination from The DMQ Review, and was awarded the 2011 Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement from Dragonfly Press.  He has published two collections of poems, Invented by the Night (2011) and Affection for the Unknowable(2003), both from Hummingbird Press. He has also published a chapbook,BEEP: A Version of the History of the Personal Computer Rendered in Free Verse in the Manner of Howl by Allen Ginsberg.

Dr. Future News - Privacy update, Snowden's actual job, Bionic Roach Rescues, Apple's Massive Solar Array, Remote Laser Analysis

Listen Now to Dr. Future News 7.02.13

Lot of great news to share with week..very interesting to hear that Ed Snowden’s job was actually “infrastructure analyst,” suggesting he was a high level hacker for the NSA..  Enjoy the show and Happy 4th everyone!

Democracy 2.0 and Secrecy Checks and Balances

Listen Now to Dr. Future Show #145 6.25.13

Just how do we have oversight of our massive security apparatus in this country?  How could we evolve democracy so that no one power group grabs the brass ring of control?  Should Snowden be painted as a hero, whistle blower, villan, or something else? 

We tackle these questions and more with our callers this week, a very dynamic and interesting show!

Entheogenic plant biologist Dennis McKenna and his adventures with his brother,psychedelic bard Terence McKenna

Listen Now Dr.Future Show Tuesday 6.18.13 Dennis McKenna

Dennis Mckenna visits us in the studio this week to share with us his research and insights into psychedelic plants, and a few tales from his amazing times with brother Terence McKenna,  psychonaut, lecturer, and writer. Terence was noted for his knowledge, and the ability to articulate his knowledge, of the use of psychedelics, metaphysics, plant-based entheogens, and subjects ranging from shamanism, language, historical and civilizational timelines, the theoretical origins of human consciousness, and his concept of novelty theory.

Of the two brothers, Dennis is the scientist, having received his Master’s degree in botany at the University of Hawaii in 1979. He received his Doctorate in Botanical Sciences in 1984 from the University of British Columbia, where he wrote a dissertation entitled Monoamine oxidase inhibitors in Amazonian hallucinogenic plants: ethnobotanical, phytochemical, and pharmacological investigations.  

His research has included the pharmacology, botany, and chemistry of ayahuasca and oo-koo-hé, the subjects of his master’s thesis. He has also conducted extensive fieldwork in the Peruvian, Colombian, and Brazilian Amazon.

He has recently finished a memoir entitled “The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss,” about his and his brother Terence’s journeys together. 

Listen Now to a reading from his memoir of a major Auyahusca vision that he had experienced.

Listen  to Dennis McKenna’s talk and readings from the Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss at the Capitola Book Cafe on 6.18.13