Tristan Donovan on KCRW

KCRW looks at the multicultural and spiritual roots of games. What does the history of gameplaying teach us about ourselves?

Gaming began 5000 years ago. Why is it still appealing today?

KCRW looks at the multicultural and spiritual roots of games. What does the history of gameplaying teach us about ourselves?

from Life Examined

KCRW looks at the multicultural and spiritual roots of games. What does the history of gameplaying teach us about ourselves?

Gaming began 5000 years ago. Why is it still appealing today?

KCRW looks at the multicultural and spiritual roots of games. What does the history of gameplaying teach us about ourselves?

from Life Examined

More from KCRW

Poet and essayist Ross Gay shares stories of joy and theorizes that the experience of joy might possibly be the best tool for uniting and depolarizing us as a people.

from Life Examined

The medical needs of those with intellectual and developmental disabilities are often ignored, and their care suffers.

from Second Opinion

We may still have some lingering pandemic fatigue but the new bird flu has the potential for significant harm if we are not careful.

from Second Opinion

Out-of-pocket costs for Paxlovid have shot up for Medicare patients, and programs to help get the COVID-alleviating drug for less aren’t well known.

from KCRW Features

With the narrow approval of Governor Gavin Newsom’s $6.4 billion mental health bond, Prop 1, the work begins to build thousands of treatment beds.

from KCRW Features

Lost Notes details the darkly hilarious schemes of record-label magnate Ruth Christie, who instigated one of the most absurd court cases in music history.

from Lost Notes

Long before “Tainted Love” was an ‘80s anthem, it was a 1965 B-side by LA’s Gloria Jones. We trace the song’s journey from a warehouse floor to the annals of pop history.

from Lost Notes

Would you prefer to receive bad medical news in person or over the phone?

from Second Opinion

Kenneth Miller, writer and author of Mapping the Darkness; The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked The Mysteries of Sleep, looks at the history and mysteries surrounding sleep and why it…

from Life Examined