Monday Night

Prog Notes Somethings Happening 05-01-24



12 AM

About Health from sister station KPFA

The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Nurse Rona Renner and Dr. Robert Pearl discuss the transformative power of generative artificial intelligence to improved patient outcomes, and to providing healthcare that is more accessible and affordable. Dr. Pearl’s new book is “ChatGPT, MD: How AI-Empowered Patients & Doctors Can Take Back Control of American Medicine.”



1 AM

The Herbal Highway

Diaspora medicine

Join Renée Camila and her guest Layla K Feghali for a conversation about embodied connection to ancestral medicine from the diaspora. Their discussion explores how colonial displacement relates to herbal traditions around birthwork, language, and belonging. Layla is a gifted plant storyteller and the author of The Land in Our Bones, which documents cultural herbal and healing knowledge from Syria to Sinai while interrogating colonialism and its lingering wounds on the cultures of our displaced world.



2 AM

Grassroots

Human health and plastic pollution

This week on Grassroots Patti & Doug talk about the EPA finally regulating a few chemicals and Martha's Vinyard banning artificial turf sports fields. Then Dr. Leo Trasande, pediatrician, author, and delegate to the UN International Negotiating Committee on Plastics talks about the imperative to put human health at the top of the list of concerns about plastic pollution.



2:30 AM

Food Sleuth Radio

The Anti-Avocado Militias of Michoacan

Did you know that 80% of the avocadoes consumed in the U.S. are imported from Mexico? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Alexander Sammon, politics writer for Slate, journalist and author of Forbidden Fruit: The Anti-avocado Militias of Michoacan. Sammon describes the impact of U.S. trade policies on avocado imports, the environmental impacts of avocado production, and the violence related to avocado farming in Mexico.

Note: Cinco de Mayo is the second largest avocado consuming day in the U.S.

Related website: https://harpers.org/archive/2023/11/forbidden-fruit-avocado-militias-michoacan-mexico/



3 AM

Whole Mother

Annalee Reid of Super Mamma Birth Services

Annalee Reid became a Medical Laboratory Scientist in 2011 and fell in love with midwifery in 2013. She then graduated from Midwives College of Utah in 2013 and became a Birth Doula living in Guatemala for 3 months serving the under-served birth centers outside of the capital and in the mountains with the indigenous midwives. She moved back to New York and had to complete a Masters in Midwifery to be licensed in New York.

She created Super Mamma Birth Services and does public speaking on women’s health topics, educates parents, and does Community Baby Showers, plus advocacy work with the Birth Justice Defenders and contributes to research for improvement of fetal and maternal health.



4-6 AM

The Thom Hartmann Program

Final 2 hours from earlier broadcast on 4-30-24