TALKING POINT with LIN WEAVER

"TALKING POINT with Lin Weaver" is a locally produced series of television shows exploring some of the important themes, challenges, and events of our time.

The show will focus on issues that matter to the community and to the world, whether they are topics of political and social significance, or recent scientific discoveries that have meaning for our lives. 

The producer will seek out people in Davis and in the broader Northern California region who have expertise in those areas. Those people may be policy makers, scientists, humanists, philanthropists, visionaries, and others.

The host will be interviewing them, seeking facts, analyses, and opinions with a view to providing the audience with information, ideas and suggestions to get involved if they so desire.

Examples of the kinds of topics that will pursued include: urgent issues of climate change, gun control, foster care, food waste, new drugs, stem cells based therapies, and the influence of American cultural values on global political and economic matters.

The program will involve both discussions in a studio setting, and/or outside filming, as appropriate.  Each show will be 30 minutes long.

The scope of the show will be broad and responsive to current events.

For more, please check my website: https://linweavermedia.com/

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Talking Point - The Evolution of Power

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Dutch Born UC Davis Distinguished Professor Emeritus Geerat J. Vermeij of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences is a prominent paleoecologist and evolutionary biologist of our time.

His latest book “The Evolution of Power" will be published in November 2o23 by Princeton University Press.

Our interview will focus on how power has played a determining role in the evolution of all life on earth, and the unique impact that humans have made as the most powerful species ever evolved on our earth.

Talking Point - As Aleppo Burns: Human Rights in the Middle East

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Lin Weaver pre-lecture interview with Sarah Leah Witson, Middle East Director, "Human Rights Watch"

UC Davis Human Rights Lecture Series at the Manetti/Shrem Museum of Art.

Topics include: UN Human Rights Charter, Country Sovereignty vs. International Outrage, Human Rights Watch's operations, and a review of what constitute human rights violations.

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Talking Point - Why Beer with Charlie Bamforth

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Lin Weaver interviews UC Davis Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of  Food Sciences and Technology, Charlie Bamforth about humankind's oldest beverage,  beer.

Topics discussed are how the brewing of beer is done, the nutritional value of beer, what is drinking in moderation, the taste, look and alcohol content from beer to beer, and a short history of how malt, hops, and yeast were discovered by the nomads, and how in China brewing beer dates back to 5000 years BC.

Talking Point - Davis Area League of Women Voters

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Lin Weaver interviews the Davis Area League of Women Voters Leadership: The President, Mary Jo Bryan, the Vice President, Bob Fung, and the Secretary/Treasurer, Georgina Valencia.

Topics include: Educational Events, Local Elections Information, and other activities of the League

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TALKING POINT - BC Tech Summit - Interview with Kelleen Wiseman

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Lin Weaver interviews Dr. Kelleen Wiseman, Faculty of Land and Food Systems at  the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.  The interview took place during the BC Tech Forum. Kelleen was among the speakers at the BC Tech Forum, the British Columbia most important yearly conference to bring together state-of-the art scientific and technological innovation.