Radio Cafe
- Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
- http://www.santaferadiocafe.org
The Radio Café is a two-person operation based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Host and interviewer Mary-Charlotte Domandi, who's had her own award-winning radio show on community station KSFR for almost ten years now, conducts all the one-on-one work with each show's guests; Devon Jackson, a longtime writer and editor for various magazines and newspapers (The New York Times, Outside, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian ), serves as the show's producer.
Encouraged by the success and popularity of her daily Santa Fe Radio Café broadcasts, which tend to be geared more toward local listeners, but also emboldened by her more nationally renowned guests (such as Academy Award-winning actor Alan Arkin, philosopher Daniel Dennett, and environmental activist Bill McKibben), Domandi and Jackson decided to expand their reach while at the same time concentrating the focus of the Radio Café .
The Science Radio Café , then, (as distinct from the Arts & Culture Radio Cafe) selects the most articulate and interesting scientists around, many of them from places such as the Santa Fe Institute and the School for Advanced Research, and engages them in a way that both does justice to the science and is accessible to the listener. Domandi engages her guests in one-on-one conversations on whatever it is they happen to be working on and thinking most deeply about--from how chimpanzee hierarchies work and how they are like and unlike human hierarchies to how biological evolution is like the evolution of the novel
The Science Radio Café is a little bit like being party to an unexpectedly enlightening, engaging, fascinating conversation between two people during a flight from, say, LA to San Francisco. One passenger, it turns out, happens to be an expert in the evolution of HIV (and the role that infectious diseases play in driving populations to extinction) or why it is certain users are more popular in online communities, while the other passenger is a non-scientist who just happens to have been reading about that scientist’s particular field of work.
The Science Radio Café not only gives listeners access to ideas they may have neither the time nor the tools to pursue on their own, it also gives them a model of friendly, intelligent, and openminded conversation, which, unfortunately, is often missing in the media and in people’s own personal and professional lives.
Encouraged by the success and popularity of her daily Santa Fe Radio Café broadcasts, which tend to be geared more toward local listeners, but also emboldened by her more nationally renowned guests (such as Academy Award-winning actor Alan Arkin, philosopher Daniel Dennett, and environmental activist Bill McKibben), Domandi and Jackson decided to expand their reach while at the same time concentrating the focus of the Radio Café .
The Science Radio Café , then, (as distinct from the Arts & Culture Radio Cafe) selects the most articulate and interesting scientists around, many of them from places such as the Santa Fe Institute and the School for Advanced Research, and engages them in a way that both does justice to the science and is accessible to the listener. Domandi engages her guests in one-on-one conversations on whatever it is they happen to be working on and thinking most deeply about--from how chimpanzee hierarchies work and how they are like and unlike human hierarchies to how biological evolution is like the evolution of the novel
The Science Radio Café is a little bit like being party to an unexpectedly enlightening, engaging, fascinating conversation between two people during a flight from, say, LA to San Francisco. One passenger, it turns out, happens to be an expert in the evolution of HIV (and the role that infectious diseases play in driving populations to extinction) or why it is certain users are more popular in online communities, while the other passenger is a non-scientist who just happens to have been reading about that scientist’s particular field of work.
The Science Radio Café not only gives listeners access to ideas they may have neither the time nor the tools to pursue on their own, it also gives them a model of friendly, intelligent, and openminded conversation, which, unfortunately, is often missing in the media and in people’s own personal and professional lives.
Pieces
Dr. Handel Reynolds, a radiologist at Atlanta’s Piedmont Hospital and author of "The Big Squeeze: A Social and Political History of the Controversi...
- Added: Oct 09, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Microsoft researcher and sociologist Duncan Watts talks about our misuse of common sense and his book Everything Is Obvious *Once You Know the Answer
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 50:01
In this short but sweet interview with the renowned hybrid musician of bluegrass, rock, reggae, electronica, and whatever other genre strikes his f...
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 18:43
Mary-Charlotte Domandi talks to the 42-year-old writer and amateur cyclist Andrew Tilin about injecting himself with "youth in a syringe," and what...
- Added: Jul 10, 2012
- Length: 26:45
Academy Award-winning actor Alan Arkin talks to Mary-Charlotte Domandi about life not being "just dog food for my career," the exciting adventure o...
- Added: Jul 06, 2012
- Length: 48:50
From: Radio Cafe
In this interview with Christopher Boehm, the director of USC's Jane Goodall Research Center and author of Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, ...
- Added: Jul 04, 2012
- Length: 58:52
Radio Cafe host Mary-Charlotte Domandi interviews Elizabeth Cline about her new book, Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion. Cline...
- Added: Jul 03, 2012
- Length: 28:35
Radio Cafe host Mary-Charlotte Domandi interviews award-winning writer Nathaniel Philbrick about his book The Last Stand, and talks with him about ...
- Added: Jun 14, 2012
- Length: 31:45
People who work with Radio Cafe
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Mary-Charlotte Domandi (Admin)
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Devon Jackson (Admin)
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