Stuart Kelter interviews Charles Piller, an award-winning investigative journalist for Science magazine, reporting on such topics as public health, biological warfare, and infectious disease outbreaks. In addition to articles in major newspapers, he is the co-author, with Keith Yamamoto, of Gene Wars: Military Control over the New Genetic Technologies, published in 1988, which examines the U.S. military biotechnology program and discusses the future of genetic arms control. He is the author of The Fail-Safe Society: Community Defiance and the End of American Technological Optimism, published in 1991, about the opposition by community groups to scientific and technological projects that endanger their communities. This interview focuses on his recently published book, Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's, the book-length version of his exposé, “Blots on a Field,” that he wrote for Science magazine on July 21, 2022.
 On this week’s Mesilla Valley Sports Show, Mike celebrated National Athletic Training Month with certified athletic trainers David Gallegos, Kim O’Connell, and Joe Mora. They shared insights into the profession of athletic training and reflected on memorable moments from their careers. Plus, news and kudos from this week’s games.
Writer, NMSU Professor, former college basketball coach, and Irish fiddler Rus Bradburd discusses his new novel, Big Time, a fun send-up of big-time college athletics. Coach Rus will also be reading, along with David Edwards, Friday evening at 7:30, as part of the Nelson-Boswell Reading Series at NMSU. That’ll be at the in the Creative Media Theater, Room 171 Milton Hall on the NMSU campus.
Producer/Writer Michael Allen and director Alex Carig will discuss the film, A Long Road to Tao, which was partially filmed here and will play at the Fountain Theater Friday evening, March 28. Allen and Carig will be present for the showing and discuss the film.
On this week’s Café Con Leche, Greg was joined by Karrie Porter, executive director of the Doña Ana Arts Council, and Natalia Martinez, gallery manager at DAArts. They discussed the upcoming Las Cruces Arts Fair, happening on Saturday and Sunday, March 22nd and 23rd, and shared updates on other exciting activities at the Arts Council.
Should business owners have a legal obligation to support employees who have just had a baby or are going through other life-changing situations?
It’s a question the New Mexico Legislature has not yet been able to answer yes to. Legislation requiring employers to provide paid family medical leave passed the House for the first time this year, but stalled in the Senate Finance Committee. By the time it arrived there, the bill had been so watered down in order to get through the House that even its supporters were no longer enthusiastic about its passage. In this program, poet and English teacher Tim Staley treats us to some perspectives on poetry, language, images, and how they shape our ideas of reality. The conversation opens with Tim reading Rumi, the Persian Sufi, mystic poet and Muslim scholar. Tim expands into how poetry can bring us into the moment, the very centers of our own lives. He guides us through an exploration of how our minds and emotions are influenced by word choices. Tim shares his thoughts about how AI may come to influence our writing, even of poetry. In addition to Rumi, he reads writings from several poets, including his own and those of Las Cruces, NM resident and internationally recognized poet Joseph Somoza.
Omar Mohammed was the previously anonymous blogger who courageously reported on the atrocities he witnessed that were perpetrated by the Islamic State, also called ISIS, when in 2014 it took over Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city. Currently, he teaches Middle East History, Cultural Heritage Diplomacy, and Counter Terrorism at the Paris Institute of Political Studies and is also the head of the Antisemitism Research Initiative at George Washington University. He’ll be talking with us about ancient and often prominent Jewish communities that, until seventy years ago, had flourished in Arab and Muslim lands, despite facing long-standing discrimination and sometimes violent oppression.
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