Schedules

• 12:00 am
  All Things Considered EPA Chief Resigns After a rough and tumble four years, Lisa Jackson announced Thursday that she is stepping down as head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
• 1:00 am
  BBC World Service
• 2:00 am
  Radio Specials The Moth Adam Gopnik and his wife love cooking but cannot find compromise in their opposite stances on meat: well-done versus rare. David Chang is face to face with the head of the Michelin guide at his famous restaurant, Momofuko Ko. Lisa Lampanelli wants to jumpstart a healthier lifestyle with a visit to a wellness camp, but finds everything about it less than agreeable.
• 3:00 am
  Morning Edition Negotiating in Daily Life Negotiating isn't just for political leaders. Hear how the art and science of negotiation play into daily life.
• 5:00 am
  Morning Edition
MORNING
• 6:33 am
  The Do List Host Cy Musiker and San Francisco Chronicle Executive Datebook editor David Wiegand look ahead at the hottest tickets and most spectacular shows this coming week in Northern California.
• 7:00 am
  Morning Edition
• 8:33 am
  The Do List The Do List Cy Musiker and David Wiegand scout the Bay Area for things to do this coming week and come up with New Year's concerts, sonic outlaws, a band that wants you to have fun and much more.
• 9:00 am
  Forum Putin to Halt U.S. Adoptions Russian President Vladimir Putin says he will sign a law banning Americans from adopting Russian children. The new policy, which threatens 1,500 pending adoptions, comes in response to a U.S. law which seeks to punish Russian human rights violators. We talk with a Bay Area adoption advocate about Russia's action.
• 9:30 am
  Forum EPA Chief Lisa Jackson Steps Down Lisa Jackson announced on Thursday that she would leave her post as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. We look at Jackson's tenure at the agency, and discuss President Obama's record on the environment. And we ask our listeners: What should Obama's environmental priorities be in his second term?
• 10:00 am
  Forum The Art of Obituaries Some people think of obituaries as sad. Not obit writers, though. It's been said that the best obits are actually about life and that death is just the footnote. We discuss the craft of obituary writing, what kind of life warrants an obit and the effect of the Internet and social media on how we remember the dead.
• 11:00 am
  Talk of the Nation The Science of Good Cooking How do you make a fluffy omelet, or the perfect pie dough? Join the show for a talk with America's Test Kitchen chef Jack Bishop on the science of good cooking.
AFTERNOON
• 12:00 pm
  Talk of the Nation The Psychology of Resolutions It's time to make your New Year's Resolutions -- but how to make them stick? Join in for a look at the psychology of resolutions.
• 1:00 pm
  Fresh Air
• 2:00 pm
  World
• 3:00 pm
  NewsHour
• 4:00 pm
  Marketplace 2012 in Review Marketplace takes a listen back to the music and economics of 2012.
• 4:30 pm
  The California Report The California Report Magazine On the next California Report Magazine, our last of 2012, we'll meet some remarkable people, including a San Francisco architect who lost his sight.
• 5:00 pm
  All Things Considered

  KQED News 4:30pm, 5:04pm, 5:30pm, 6:04pm & 7:04pm

  
  
  
EVENING
• 6:30 pm
  The California Report The California Report Magazine On the next California Report Magazine, our last of 2012, we'll meet some remarkable people, including a San Francisco architect who lost his sight.
• 7:00 pm
  Fresh Air
• 8:00 pm
  Commonwealth Club Ray Kurzweil For decades, pioneering inventor and theorist Ray Kurzweil has explored how artificial intelligence can enrich and expand human capabilities. Now he takes this exploration to the next step: reverse-engineering the brain to understand how it works, then applying that knowledge to create vastly intelligent machines. Drawing on the most recent neuroscience research, his own research and inventions in artificial intelligence, and compelling thought experiments, Kurzweil describes his new theory of how the neocortex (the thinking part of the brain) works: as a self-organizing hierarchical system of pattern recognizers. He shows how these insights could enable us to vastly extend the powers of our own mind and provides a roadmap for the creation of super-intelligence. Futurist Ray Kurzweil is author of "How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed."
• 9:00 pm
  BBC World Service
• 10:00 pm
  Forum The Art of Obituaries Some people think of obituaries as sad. Not obit writers, though. It's been said that the best obits are actually about life and that death is just the footnote. We discuss the craft of obituary writing, what kind of life warrants an obit and the effect of the Internet and social media on how we remember the dead.
• 11:00 pm
  The California Report The California Report Magazine On the next California Report Magazine, our last of 2012, we'll meet some remarkable people, including a San Francisco architect who lost his sight.
• 11:30 pm
  All Things Considered North Korea Women North Korea made international headlines with its recent rocket launch, but inside that reclusive country, profound social change is happening beyond the view of the outside world. The pressure of national ideology has dramatically redrawn gender roles, forcing women to become the breadwinners. NPR's Louisa Lim talked recently to North Korean refugees and travelers in China, and brings us a rare and sobering picture of life in the Hermit Kingdom.