It seemed like a well meaning element of the controversial Affordable Health Care Act: until the full reform plan kicks into gear in 2014, give a chance to people with preexisting medical conditions—people who have the most difficulties finding insurance—a chance to apply for low-cost coverage. But after nearly a year in practice, only 18,313 [...]
May 19, 2011 | Posted in
KPCC Blogs |
Read More »
In his new book “Force of Nature,” Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist and author Ed Humes tells the story of the unlikely partnership between H. Lee Scott, the CEO of Wal-Mart and Jib Ellison, a sustainability consultant and how they’ve struggled to define what is means for the biggest of big box superstores to go green. [...]
May 18, 2011 | Posted in
KPCC Blogs |
Read More »
There’s nothing funny or cool about Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory disease of the intestines that cause a wide range of unpleasant symptoms, from abdominal pain to diarrhea and vomiting. Having Crohn’s disease is not something that you’re necessarily eager to announce to the world—not unless your name is Ben Morrison, you suffer from Crohn’s disease, [...]
May 18, 2011 | Posted in
KPCC Blogs |
Read More »
In these days of dwindling music sales, it’s hard to imagine how a band of any size can keep it together. Make that an 18-piece jazz ensemble and it’s nearly incomprehensible. Unless, that is, you’re talking about Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band. Goodwin is a GRAMMY-winning composer and arranger, known in Hollywood for his cinematic [...]
May 16, 2011 | Posted in
KPCC Blogs |
Read More »
The good news is you may be able to watch big movie releases on-demand in your living room much sooner than in the past. The bad news is it's sparked a feud between movie studios, filmmakers and theater owners. Four major movie studios, Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 20th Century Fox and Universal Studios have [...]
May 16, 2011 | Posted in
KPCC Blogs |
Read More »
James Gandolfini is best known for playing the likeable, sociopathic mob boss Tony Soprano for six seasons on HBO. But the actor has starred in numerous films in a wide variety of roles including Get Shorty, In the Loop, All the King’s Men and the just aired HBO movie Cinema Verite about the reality TV [...]
May 13, 2011 | Posted in
KPCC Blogs |
Read More »
What if research showed that eating a plant-based diet could fend off heart disease, prostate cancer, diabetes, colon cancer, breast cancer and rheumatoid arthritis? What if research showed that this diet, in some cases, could actually reverse those diseases? Well, in the new documentary Forks over Knives two prominent researchers show exactly that. The evidence [...]
May 13, 2011 | Posted in
KPCC Blogs |
Read More »
To understand the making of America, author Andrea Wulf believes we must see George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and John Adams as farmers first. It turns out, the Founding Fathers relished farming and gardening as much – if not more – than politics. In her new book “Founding Gardeners,” Wulf reveals how the founders’ [...]
May 12, 2011 | Posted in
KPCC Blogs |
Read More »
Hitler and The Third Reich are both seldom seen as being topics to laugh at. That is unless you’re Rudolph Herzog: in which case you’ve already written a book about how funny both are! Additionally, if you were Rudolph Herzog, you’d know about the hippest comedy scenes in Germany, the whispered jokes, the smoky anti-Nazi [...]
May 12, 2011 | Posted in
KPCC Blogs |
Read More »
If you took a personality test, could you fail? If you have a life coach, might he bench you? In reality, personality tests are no joke, and have long been used as serious approaches to examine the mental stability of pilots, police officers and others in high-pressure occupations. Recently, there has been a trend to [...]
May 12, 2011 | Posted in
KPCC Blogs |
Read More »
