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Who's a good boy?

KokuRyu — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:28:07 -0800

Dogs Themselves - A 3-Part CBC Ideas Program (MP3) Do they think in visual images - or maps, or strings of ideas, or perhaps in whole stories? Do they think at all? New evidence reveals what dogs understand, about their world and about people, what they say and how they say it - to each other and to us - and what they know that people don't. The hidden lives of dogs themselves are uncovered by dog observers Jon Katz, Alexandra Horowitz, Clive Wynne and Monique Udell, Xioaming Wang, Gillian Ridgeway, Patricia McConnell, Jennifer Arnold and Suzanne Clothier in conversation with Max Allen.

"We didn't commit suicide. We committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world."

Alvy Ampersand — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:42:07 -0800

31 years ago today, 918 people died in the Jonestown Mass Murder-Suicide. One week later, CBC Radio aired this comprehensive examination[MP3] of the events leading up the tragedy, including cult leader Jim Jones' rise to power, the founding of the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project in Guyana, and the ill-fated investigative delegation headed by Congressman Leo Ryan which precipitated the tragic event.

let's talk about pelvic exams

hurdy gurdy girl — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:06:59 -0800

“Just put your feet up here and let your legs go all floppy. Just flop your knees apart. OK, just relax.” On this week’s episode of CBC Radio's “White Coat, Black Art” [mp3], Dr. Brian Goldman talks to both patients and doctors about that important, intimate, yet often alienating experience called the pelvic exam. In case you’ve ever wondered, “How DO male doctors feel when they do a pelvic exam?”, this show may provide some interesting answers. Goldman gives a brief history of pelvic exams (an early speculum-type advice was found in the ruins at Pompeii) and interviews both patients and doctors about their experiences and attitudes during pelvic exams. [Some previous topics covered on White Coat, Black Art include religious faith and medical practitioners, how the way a doctor dresses can affect patients, and incompetence in doctors.]

CBC Unplugged

sanitycheck — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 03:17:14 -0800

Transmitters? We don't need no stinkin' transmitters! Employees of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporatation, locked out since early last week, are using the Internet to communicate with their listener/viewer base. First, there were blogs from both sides. And now the locked out employees are producing podcasts (RSS link) from the picket lines.