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Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, is this month’s guest on Tidings. Not only was he present at what he calls “the trailing edge of the hippies” of the Internet’s birth, but his participation continues deep within the ethos shaping the Creative Commons, Public Domain, open source technology and Wikipedia […]
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Kimberly Coburn, writer, maker, founder of The Homestead Atlanta and leader in a movement seeking to remedy today’s “skills amnesia” by reclaiming pre-industrialization crafts and skills–such as fermentation–to support life in what many believe is widespread systems collapse or unravelling of the world as we have known it. (First broadcast on WPKN, May 10, 2023)
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Farmer-artists Agathe Snow and Anthony Holbrooke talk about learning to grow mushrooms on their farm Mattituck Mushrooms, why they believe mushrooms can help feed the world and how they have integrated mushrooms into their art. (WPKN, January 3, 2024)
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Maya Lasker-Wallfisch Maya Lasker Wallfisch, London-based psychoanalytic psychologist and author talks to us in both personal and professional terms about the psychology of trans-generational transmission of trauma. The daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Maya bears the “wounds of history,” inheriting experiences she has not lived through herself. She touches briefly on epigenetics, (sometimes referred to as ‘the […]
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Steve Schott, Marine Botany/Habitat Restoration Educator at Cornell Cooperative Extension, talks about sugar kelp and eelgrass, crucial to protect and restore the waters around Long Island, and the responsibilities that come with managing the ecology of our estuarine habitats. First broadcast on WPKN August 4, 2021, rebroadcast September 6, 2023.
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Amy Folk, Southold Town historian, talks about the North Fork Project and its goal of naming all the town’s enslaved people, describing the process of finding the enslaved as well as their enslavers. (Broadcast during WPKN‘s Black History Month, February 1, 2023)
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Chris Antal, Staff Chaplain and Dr. Peter Yeomans, Staff Psychologist at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Philadelphia talk about understanding the suffering of moral injury among U.S. combat-deployed Veterans and their facilitation of a 12-week Moral Injury Group and Community Healing Ceremony in which Veterans’ burdens are shared by the community made more […]
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Aanchal Malhotra speaks to Tidings from Delhi about her beautiful book “Remnants of Partition: 21 objects from a content divided“, in which survivors of Partition talk about the one precious object they carried across the border that created India and Pakistan in 1947—and the power these remnants have to tell a story we might not otherwise […]
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Denise Civiletti, journalist and founder of Riverhead Local, talks about starting and running a local digital newspaper as a family business in keeping with her values as a journalist. (WPKN November 2, 2022)
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In this episode of Tidings from Hazel Kahan, Noam Cohen, author, journalist and Wikipedia editor, takes us inside Wikipedia to show us how its articles actually come into being as a bastion of sources-based truth and bulwark against fake news, used by Google, Siri and YouTube among others to answer our questions. (Broadcast on WPKN […]
Born to German Jewish refugee physicians in Lahore (now Pakistan, then British India) Hazel has lived, studied and worked in many places–India, England, Australia, Israel and the United States. She makes her home in the woods of the eastern end of Long Island, New York where she produces the art of leafages, the radio sounds of Tidings and writes about growing up Jewish in Lahore. Read more about Hazel…
Leafages by Hazel Kahan are made from real leaves, vines and tendrils interwoven with calligraphy, decorative pen and ink flourishes and imaginary Latin botanical names. Leafages contain a philosophical or inspirational thought, quotation or verse from sages, poets or religious texts. Some leafages are specially created for an individual, a couple or a family with words or leaves reflecting their personal narrative. They are available on the Leafages shop on Etsy although the supply is low right now, all my energies having been absorbed by the book I’ve been writing. Do come back soon when the shop will be full of new leafage abundance or contact me.
