Future News and special guest Richard Ely, Pantheistic Scientist, as we Explore the Intersection of Science and Shamanism

Listen now to Richard Ely

What do the topics of geology, paganism,  earthquakes, science fiction, wild women, psychedelics, and
the Grateful Dead have in common? None other than our guest Richard Ely, a modern day renaissance scientist who spans a wider range of life experience and belief systems than most humans on this planet. Join us as our merry crew explores these and related topics with each other and our live KSCO audience.  If you want to read some of Richard’s writing, they can be found at www.enlightenment  .com

Guest - Physicist Poet Dr. Len Anderson

Listen Now to Len Anderson

We had a an opportunity to meet Len Anderson last weekend and had a very stimulating conversation on physics and art and various other sundry topics.. simply delightful!  To make a long story short, we invited him to our show this week to share him with you, including his unique Science meets Art poetry.

 

Len Anderson has a BA and PhD in Physics from UC Berkeley.  He worked for four years in experimental elementary particle physics and nearly 16 years at Measurex Corporation (now part of Honeywell), developing sensors for the automation of paper manufacturing.  He and his wife have lived in Live Oak since 1998.

Len has been writing poetry since 1985 and has studied with Richard Maxwell, Robert Bly, Joseph Stroud, Joseph McNeilly and Sally Ashton.  His work has appeared in a variety of literary journals, anthologies and other publications.  He is a winner of the Dragonfly Press Poetry Competition, the Mary Lönnberg Smith Poetry Award (Cabrillo College), has received a Pushcart nomination from The DMQ Review, and was awarded the 2011 Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement from Dragonfly Press.  He has published two collections of poems, Invented by the Night (2011) and Affection for the Unknowable(2003), both from Hummingbird Press. He has also published a chapbook,BEEP: A Version of the History of the Personal Computer Rendered in Free Verse in the Manner of Howl by Allen Ginsberg.