Are Researchers Finally Closing in on the Cure to Cancer?

Could it be that the prevalent theory of the cause of cancer before the discovery of DNA sidetracked research into chromosome damage for decades was right all along?  

In this edition of KPTZ Compass I talk with biochemist Travis Christofferson, the author of Tripping Over the Truth: The Metabolic Theory of Cancer, which details the remarkable successes researchers into the 90-year-old metabolic theory have had in recent years, and allow ourselves to hope that the cure may actually finally be right around the corner:

Metabolic Theory of Cancer

(30 minutes)

Fighting the Navy

Over the course of the past couple of years, the U.S. Navy has steadily expanded its operations in the Puget Sound region, from more than doubling the size of the nuclear weapons handling dock at the Bangor Trident submarine base on the Hood Canal, to increasing the number and frequency of training exercises with noisy Growler fighter jets stationed on Whidbey Island, to increasing testing and in-water training using explosives and sonar, to proposing to use Olympic National Forest lands as a training ground for electronic warfare.  Each of these expansions has met with almost universal public opposition, and critics have questioned the legality of the piecemeal environmental review process.  Here are several programs I produced for KPTZ Compass on the Navy's increasing militarization of the Sound, and the public push-back:

Whidbey Growlers
(30 minutes)

Electronic Warfare Non-hearing
(30 minutes)

Trouble with the Navy
(29 minutes)

The Navy's Marine Messes
(30 minutes)

Tarboo Plant-a-Thon

My favorite stories are those of communities joyfully working together for a common cause...and of those sorts of stories, this is my favorite so far: the tenth annual Tarboo Creek Plant-a-Thon, at which some 200 volunteers came together to help restore salmon runs in a troubled watershed.

Tarboo Plant-a-Thon
30 minutes