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Radio Daily Schedule

KQED Public Radio: Thursday, July 5, 2012

88.5 FM San Francisco • 89.3 FM Sacramento

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OVERNIGHT

2:00 am

Radio Specials Radiolab Ghost Stories -- In this episode, real-life people try to pin down and make peace with mysterious figures that haunt them, prod them and fade out of existence. One man finds a way to put the beatdown on his personal bogey man. A dead monk spurs a king to build a perfect prayer machine. An unknown face launches 1,000 dummies (actually, a whole lot more than that). And a skeptic goes on a one-way journey to find out whether spirits exist.

MORNING

9:00 am

Forum Higgs Boson Found? On Wednesday, physicists at the multinational research center CERN in Geneva confirmed the rumors: they had discovered a new subatomic particle which by all appearances resembles a Higgs boson. The long-theorized Higgs boson, predicted by the Standard Model of physics but never observed, is thought to convey mass to all other particles. Does this discovery truly mark the end of a long search, or is it just the tip of a new iceberg? We discuss the findings, and what they might tell us about the nature of matter.

10:00 am

Forum Picky Eaters Does it take you 15 minutes to tell a waiter how you want your food prepared? You're probably a picky eater. Writer Stephanie Lucianovic was one. She lived in fear of having dinner at friends' houses or going to restaurants. Today, she's a foodie and food writer -- and she'll brave eating most anything.

11:00 am

Talk of the Nation Woody Guthrie at 100 Woody Guthrie wrote some of America's most important songs, and inspired the folk revivalists of the 50s and 60s to take on politics and civil rights. This month, he'd have turned 100 years old. Host Neal Conan celebrates Woody Guthrie's centennial from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

AFTERNOON

12:00 pm

Talk of the Nation The AIDS Quilt: Tapestry of Memory On October 11, 1987, the AIDS quilt unfurled across the National Mall for the first time, each of its nearly 2,000 panels a memorial. Now, on its return to the mall for this year's Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the quilt has grown to nearly 50,000 panels.

1:00 pm

Fresh Air AIDS in Black America The show discusses AIDS in the African-American community with public health analyst Dr. Robert Fullilove and Renata Simone, the director of the new PBS Frontline documentary "Endgame: AIDS in Black America."

4:00 pm

Marketplace Safer to Rent? Maybe Not Some families looking to buy a home ultimately decided to rent instead, thinking it would be a safer alternative in today's economy. But a new report shows that may not be the case.

EVENING

6:30 pm

Marketplace Safer to Rent? Maybe Not Some families looking to buy a home ultimately decided to rent instead, thinking it would be a safer alternative in today's economy. But a new report shows that may not be the case.

7:00 pm

Fresh Air AIDS in Black America The show discusses AIDS in the African-American community with public health analyst Dr. Robert Fullilove and Renata Simone, the director of the new PBS Frontline documentary "Endgame: AIDS in Black America."

8:00 pm

Radio Specials TED Radio Hour Our Buggy Brain -- Each year, TED hosts the world's most fascinating thinkers who give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes or less. In this exciting new co-production between TED and NPR, each episode focuses around a theme and TED Talks that put ideas about the theme through the paces. Our amazing brain, with all of its harmonious functions, also performs any number of peculiar actions which we might find unexpected and counterintuitive. What tricks do our minds play when we think it's okay to lie, cheat or steal? How in-control are we of our own decisions? And why do our brains systematically misjudge what will make us happy?

10:00 pm

Forum Picky Eaters Does it take you 15 minutes to tell a waiter how you want your food prepared? You're probably a picky eater. Writer Stephanie Lucianovic was one. She lived in fear of having dinner at friends' houses or going to restaurants. Today, she's a foodie and food writer -- and she'll brave eating most anything.

11:00 pm

All Things Considered Opening Up State Prescription DatabasesStates are banding together to try to combat prescription drug abuse. Doctors in many states check a database before prescribing medication. But there's no way for doctors who live on the border to check neighboring states. Now there's a move to change that.

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