About Health

Reflecting on Chinese Medicine

Join us to welcome a new producer/host on the About Health team, Thuy Nguyen, founder and director at Berkeley Community Acupuncture. She will reflect on what Traditional Chinese Medicine is and the inseparable connection of our well-being on the community and the well-being of the community on us.


The world is facing two existential threats, one acknowledged but inadequately addressed, and the other largely forgotten until recently: global warming and nuclear weapons. Scholar Michael Klare discusses the dangerous great power politics highlighted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and their deleterious effects on nuclear proliferation and the struggle to slow the climate disaster. Resources: … Continued


Guest: Aviva Chomsky is a professor of history and the coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University. She is the author of several books including Undocumented; They Take Our Jobs!; and her latest, Is Science Enough?: Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice.  Aviva Chomsky has been active in the Latin American solidarity and immigrants’ … Continued


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