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The Universe is full of such wonderful mysteries. We know why we have Aurora, as the sun’s energy interacts with the upper atmosphere. But why such beauty in this shimmering dance? Perhaps music can reveal inner harmonies, and help us appreciate these mysteries with awe and joy. French musician Catherine Brisset plays the cristal Baschet, a unique glass keyboard with fanciful metal shapes to help the mysterious sounds resonate. Here, she plays a variation on Bach’s Sonata #2, the Grave movement, with such subtle and emotive touch. We fly over and through the Aurora Australis, so artfully photographed by astronauts of ISS Expedition 67, on June 18, 2022. Recorded on 6/18/2022. [Show ID: 40317]
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The Universe is full of such wonderful mysteries. We know why we have Aurora, as the sun’s energy interacts with the upper atmosphere. But why such beauty in this shimmering dance? Perhaps music can reveal inner harmonies, and help us appreciate these mysteries with awe and joy. French musician Catherine Brisset plays the cristal Baschet, a unique glass keyboard with fanciful metal shapes to help the mysterious sounds resonate. Here, she plays a variation on Bach’s Sonata #2, the Grave movement, with such subtle and emotive touch. We fly over and through the Aurora Australis, so artfully photographed by astronauts of ISS Expedition 67, on June 18, 2022. Recorded on 6/18/2022. [Show ID: 40317]
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![CWC Docs: What These Walls Won’t Hold - A Conversation with Adamu Chan
Filmmaker Adamu Chan joins UC Santa Barbara’s Althea Wasow for a powerful conversation about What These Walls Won’t Hold, a documentary he created while incarcerated at San Quentin during the COVID-19 pandemic. The film, which aired nationally on PBS’s America ReFramed, captures the resilience and activism of incarcerated people and their communities in the face of crisis. Chan shares how filmmaking became a tool for resistance and healing, offering an inside look at life behind bars. This discussion explores the film’s creative process, its social justice impact, and the importance of centering incarcerated voices. It’s an inspiring program about storytelling, humanity, and the power of community—even in the most challenging circumstances. Recorded on 11/07/2024. [6/2025] [Show ID: 40540]
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![Save Our Humanity
On this glorious evening flight captured by astronauts abroad the ISS, we see Earth in all her glory with clouds, night lights and shimmering Aurora. The music is composed and sung by Samantha Tauber, aka VNCCII, who shares her message of hope and love for Earth. Like the astronauts, we must learn to see Earth as a whole, and do the serious work to care for our home and for our future, with hope and love. [Show ID: 40990]
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![Do Cash Transfers Save Lives?
Does giving cash up front improve the health and wellbeing of people in poor communities? In this program, Edward (Ted) Miguel, professor of economics and co-director of the Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley, talks about his work in Kenya on the impact of cash transfers on infant mortality, leveraging a unique large-scale census of local households’ birth histories. The findings provide novel evidence on the broader impacts of cash transfers on wellbeing of a poor rural population, and illustrate the value of the experimental approach in development economics for public policy. Recorded on 11/19/2024. [2/2025] [Show ID: 40309]
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![Moonset
Astronauts on the International Space Station see 16 moonsets every day - thats because the ISS orbits Earth every 92 minutes. Here, as the ISS travels away from the horizon, the moon sets in a serene and brief path, a colorful horizon of deep red and blue fading into the clouds of dusk. We also see the planet Venus as a small bright light left of the moon. For the music, organist Brian Hoffman plays Bach’s evocative and mysterious “Ich ruf zu dir” (I call to you) on a digital organ system called Hauptwerk. [Show ID: 40098]
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![Falling in Love with Nature: The Values of Latinx Catholic Environmentalism
Through a focus on Spanish-speaking Catholics, Amanda Baugh sheds light on environmental actors hiding in plain sight. Drawing from ethnographic research conducted across Los Angeles, Baugh, Professor and Associate Chair of Religious Studies and Director of the MA Program in Sustainability at California State University, Northridge, demonstrates that minority communities are not merely victims of environmental problems. Instead, many Spanish-speaking Catholics embrace what Baugh calls “la tierra environmentalism,” an embodied ethic of living lightly on the Earth that is rooted in a sense of love and respect for God, fellow humans, and the rest of God’s creation. A focus on la tierra environmentalism challenges scholars and activists to rethink who counts as environmental leaders and what counts as environmentalism. Recorded on 11/14/2024. [Show ID: 40423]
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![Lisa Sanders & Brown Sugar - Angels
An electrifying harmonizer, Lisa Sanders’ heartfelt songs are genuine with deep meaning and conviction. Her music conveys a style that can only be described as soulful country blues, integrating influences of folk-pop, gospel, rock, and jazz. Writing, singing, and producing from her heart in nearly every genre for over three decades, Sanders continues to make an impact in the musical world. Joining her from the Los Angeles band, Water Tower, will be Kenny Feinstein, on guitars, mandolin, bass, and violin and Tommy Drinkard on bass, percussion, guitars, and banjo. [Show ID: 40050]
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![The Constitutional Right to Transition: Reconstruction and the Political History of Transphobia
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Award-winning historian Jules Gill-Peterson examines transgender identity and politics through the lens of American liberalism, arguing that anti-transgender politics cannot be understood by analyzing conservatism alone. She traces the emergence of transgender identity from middle-class cross-dressing cultures, the development of transgender medicine, and the class tensions surrounding transition. Gill-Peterson connects this history to U.S. v. Skrmetti, the vulnerability of transition-related health care, and what she describes as liberal discomfort with dysphoria and changing sex. She calls for a politics centered on defending transsexual people and a right to transition. Recorded on 04/30/2026. [Show ID: 41447]
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![How I Learned What I Learned: Using Interaction Orders to Study Troubled Interactions
Troubled interactions are moments when communication breaks down in subtle, often unnoticed ways. In this program, Waverly Duck, an urban ethnographer and professor of sociology at UC Santa Barbara, discusses these breakdowns, revealing surprising aspects of how we create meaning and self-identity. Through video and audio recordings, Duck shows how misunderstandings lead people to assign motives to each other, creating conflict. Examples from Ducks research include neighborhood poverty, food inequality, and autism assessments. These cases highlight hidden social rules and practices, demonstrating how studying these troubles can help us understand everyday interactions better. Recorded on 07/08/2024. [Show ID: 40131]
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![Flower and Flame
A documentary film celebrating the work, wit and wisdom of internationally acclaimed glass paperweight artist Paul J. Stankard. [11/2025] [Show ID: 41122]
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![Desert Ocean Land
In our latest Earth Serenade, we bring you a meditative flight over the Sahara and an exploratory path over the Atlantic Ocean and Europe as we further explore Bachs Art of the Fugue. MDR Sinfonieorchester of Leipzig, Germany, brings us these two movements to accompany the visuals taken by ISS astronauts on Expeditions 67 and 69. [Show ID: 40754]
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![Evolution and Animal Minds
Peter Godfrey-Smith, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney, explores the evolutionary roots of consciousness by surveying animal evolution and the emergence of felt experience in several lineages. He examines two central philosophical questions: how such experience might arise gradually, existing in partial forms, and whether it represents a single unified feature with variations or instead a cluster of distinct traits. Author of Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection, and Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness and the Making of the World, Godfrey-Smith brings his expertise in philosophy of biology and mind to illuminate how consciousness may have emerged and why its origins remain a profound puzzle. Recorded on 09/24/2025. [12/2025] [Show ID: 41065]
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