Pushing Limits is pleased to present an interview with cultural and visual anthropologist Karen Nakamura who recently accepted the position as Haas Distinguished  Chair of Disability Studies at UC Berkeley. She is a highly-educated, skilled woman who is deeply immersed in the disability community. Dr. Nakamura, who formerly taught at Yale, will be  working on … Continued


Wildfires, large and small, have been an essential part of Western landscapes for millennia. And now a growing body of research is showing how most of the traditional fire-control methods we have been employing for nearly a century — like logging dense forests to thin them and removing dead trees so that the fire can’t … Continued


In Historic Shift, U.S. Government to End Use of Deadly, Costly, Negligent Private Prisons; Private Prisons May Be Phased Out, But Industry Leaves Trail of Bodies from Medical Neglect & Abuses; As Feds Close Prisons Run by Private Companies, Will They Do Same for Immigrant Detention Centers? Former Iran Hostage Shane Bauer: Claim That $400M … Continued


Caroline re-plays, (with a pertinent fresh intro, as we journey through collective combo psychotic break/Renaissance (take your pick)…entheogens, empathogens contributing and encourage us to cahoot with the latter.) Death by Astonishment” DMT Terrence McKenna Radio April 28, 2016 Caroline welcomes ancestral Terence McKenna, whose messages are all hopping up and down for us now… and … Continued


Last night, CNN hosted a Green Party town hall with Jill Stein and her running mate, Ajamu Baraka. Does the Green party offer a viable alternative to a Clinton or Trump presidency? We speak to Laura Wells and Rosa Clemente to hear their thoughts. Guests: Laura Wells, Green Party candidate for the 2010 governor’s race in … Continued