Archive for October, 2009
Reporter's Notes: Saving Our Parks
Henry Coe State Park won't be experiencing any part-time closures, but it will reduce trash and restroom service and has shuttered a new visitor center off the Pacheco Pass. So you want to reserve that primo camping spot at your favorite California State Park? You might just have to take your chances. Most state parks [...]
Post on Oct 30, 2009 by Andrea Kissack
Am I Certifiable?
A technician checks the combustion efficiency and safety of a water heater—an important part of any home energy audit. I hope I’m certifiable. I’ll find out in about a year when I’ve completed all the training and taken the written and field exams to become a Building Performance Institute (BPI) certified Building Analyst. The certification [...]
Post on Oct 30, 2009 by Jim Gunshinan
Science Event Pick: Wonderfest '09
Wonderfest, the Bay Area Festival of Science, is back for its 11th cycle on November 7th and 8th. This year brings even more exceptional dialogues between the best local scientists, a forum on citizen science, an shopping bazaar of science gifts, and the Mind Duel – a science quiz competition between a high school team and panel of professors.
Post on Oct 29, 2009 by Kishore Hari
Living in Limbo: the Zombie-like Qualities of Prions
There is something incredibly satisfying with the zombie movie plot – a virus outbreak devastates a planet but a group of people are immune and fight to save humankind.
Post on Oct 28, 2009 by Cat
An Incomplete for 23andMe's Carrier Testing
What can genetic testing tell you? A while back I took a 23andMe genetic test that looks at over 600,000 different spots on my DNA. The last few blogs I have been going over my genetic test results with an eye on how useful they are. And how well the results are explained. Last blog [...]
Post on Oct 26, 2009 by Dr. Barry Starr
Reporter's Notes: Catching the Drift – Part 2
Luis Medellin and Karl Tupper set up a drift catcher in Lindsay, CA. My radio story on pesticide drift looks at how residents in the citrus town of Lindsay are monitoring pesticides in the air and in their bodies. They are using a device called a Drift Catcher, modeled after technology used by the California [...]
Post on Oct 26, 2009 by Molly Samuel
Web of Stars
What do Chabot's 36-inch telescope, Nellie, and a classroom full of 14-year-old girls in Cork, Ireland have in common?
Post on Oct 23, 2009 by Ben Burress
Science Event Pick: BOSS of the Night Sky
KTVU Channel 2 health and science editor John Fowler will moderate a panel of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists who use phenomena such as exploding stars and gravitational lenses to explore the dark cosmos.
Post on Oct 22, 2009 by Kishore Hari
Wildlife + Creative Thinking = Hope: A Day at the Wildlife Conservation Expo
This year's Wildlife Conservation Network Expo in full swing at the Mission Bay Conference Center. It’s a sunny, fall day in October and I am driving into San Francisco. I pass the colorful Love Parade floats revving up without a glance of longing. I pass the turn towards Golden Gate Park for Hardly Strictly Blue [...]
Post on Oct 21, 2009 by Amy Gotliffe
The Large Hadron Collider Gets Ready to Spin Again
.In about one month the world’s biggest science experiment, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, will once again fire up.
Post on Oct 19, 2009 by Christopher Smallwood
Reporter's Notes: Catching the Drift
In this week's Quest radio piece, I talk to two pregnant organic onion workers who got sick after an apple farmer sprayed pesticides on a nearby orchard. Following a nearly three month investigation, the Kern County Ag Commissioner issued citations finding both the apple grower and the organic company at fault.
Post on Oct 16, 2009 by Molly Samuel
Solar Decathlon 2009
I'm used to seeing some unusual things on the Mall in Washington, DC—our nations backyard—but was quite impressed by the 20 solar powered homes arrayed there last Saturday.
Post on Oct 16, 2009 by Jim Gunshinan
Science Event Pick: Experimenting with Yourself
David experimenting with EEGLoyal KQED blog followers have been reading of Dr. Barry Starr’s experience getting his genes tested by 23andMe. He has tested his native American ancestry and evaluated his risk for diabetes. What if Barry took even more tests, from blood toxins to more genetic tests – would that result in a clearer [...]
Post on Oct 15, 2009 by Kishore Hari
Producer's Notes: The Farallon Islands—"California's Galapagos"
Lying 28 miles off the coast of San Francisco, the jagged silhouette of the Farallon Islands disrupts the clean line of the horizon. This foreboding knot of rocks sits amid one of the most
productive marine food webs on the planet and hosts the largest seabird breeding colony in the continental United States. QUEST ventures out for a rare visit to learn what life is like on the islands and meet the scientists who call this incredibly wild place home.
Post on Oct 13, 2009 by Chris Bauer
Producer's Notes: Your Photos on QUEST—Doug Nomura
San José photographer Doug Nomura has learned just how to track his subjects to create arresting photos of birds in flight. He focuses his work on the Bay Trail, a 300-mile trail around the Bay. QUEST joins Nomura on the bayfront in Sunnyvale as he works to photograph the many bird species that call the South Bay’s mudflats home, or stop here as part of their migration.
Post on Oct 13, 2009 by Gabriela Quirós
Producer's Notes: Maya Skies
Go behind the scenes of Tales of Maya Skies, the new film produced by Oakland's Chabot Space and Science Center. The half-hour film about Maya astronomy opens at the center's planetarium on November 21.
Post on Oct 13, 2009 by Gabriela Quirós
Do These Genes Make Me Look Diabetic?
A couple of weeks ago I was diagnosed with metabolic syndrome. Right when I am in the middle of talking about genetic testing!
Post on Oct 12, 2009 by Dr. Barry Starr
Post on Oct 09, 2009 by Ben Burress
Reporter's Notes: Predicting the Next Big One
It's been twenty years since the Loma Prieta Earthquake ravaged downtown Santa Cruz and damaged San Francisco's Marina District and the Bay Bridge. Quest looks at the dramatic improvements in earthquake prediction technology since 1989. But what can be done with ten seconds of warning?
Post on Oct 09, 2009 by Amy Standen
Film Premiere: Saving the Bay
The first two episodes of "Saving the Bay" premiere on KQED Channel 9 on Thursday, Oct. 8 at 8pm. Click here to find additional air times/dates and to find out what else "Saving the Bay" has to offer.
Post on Oct 08, 2009 by Phaela Peck
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