Kari Bachman, director of Doña Ana Communities United and host of KTAL's Just Community, joins Randy in a discussion about the realities and language of race, racism and privilege.
Lisa Lucca talks with multi-genre author, Selene Castrovilla, about her books, her passion for engaging with teen readers, and her incredible support of writers through Roadmap Authors. The Revs. Carolyn Wilkins and Xolani Kacela, co-hosts of Take On Faith, had a spirited conversation that updated listeners on the developments in their ministries during the pandemic. They also discussed contemporary concerns on the spiritual landscape and their hopes for the coming time post-pandemic.
Walt Rubel reviewed the week's top news stories, reported on a new city effort to reduce the cat population and he talked to Doña Ana County Manager Fernando Macias about some of the new projects he's overseeing and vaccinations.
Co-hosts Walt Rubel and Peter Goodman began their May 19, 2021 show talking about masks, LCPS equity policy, and other news.
MaryAnn Digman, host of the weekly Coronavirus Updates on KTAL; Russell Allen of Allen Theatres; Debbi More of the Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce discussed new CDC guidelines on facemasks and the impact they will have locally in terms of both health and business.
Allyson Siwick of the Gila Conservation Coalition discussed HB 200 passed by the NM Legislature this year, which finally puts an end to efforts to build a multi-million dollar diversion project on the Gila River.
I graduated from both high school and college thinking that the Underground Railroad was an actual train, with Harriet Tubman at the controls. When I read last week about the controversy regarding plans by the Las Cruces school district to develop a more equitable curriculum, I thought back to my school days and how shallow and misleading my education was as to the contributions made by those who did not sail over willingly from Europe, and their descendants.
In our conversation today, Randy Harris and Bob Hearn explore some of the considerations of "Internal" and "External" as related to our internal personal processes as contrasted with our external relationships to ourselves and our places within the details of the world.
Stuart Kelter interviews Dr. Melanie Mitchell (https://melaniemitchell.me/), Davis Professor of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, a non-profit institution that aims to understand systems in which many agents interact and adapt to one another and their environments, often giving rise to surprising emergent properties or behaviors. Melanie is also a professor of Computer Science (currently on leave) at Portland State University. Her current research focuses on conceptual abstraction, analogy-making, and visual recognition in artificial intelligence systems. She is the author or editor of six books and numerous scholarly papers in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and complex systems. Her book Complexity: A Guided Tour, won the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award and was named by Amazon.com as one of the ten best science books of 2009. Her latest book is Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans, which is the topic for today’s interview.
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