World Series Preview; Orange County Edition; The Mind and the Brain
World Series Preview
Larry Mantle provides a preview of the upcoming baseball World Series between the Anaheim Angels and the San Francisco Giants. Game one of the World Series begins on Saturday. Mike DiGiovanna, baseball writer for the Los Angeles Times, and Josh Suchon, Giants beat writer for the Oakland Tribune and author of This Gracious Season: Barry Bonds and the Greatest Year in Baseball (Winter Publications, join host Larry Mantle for the preview.
Orange County Edition
Larry Mantle talks with Chris Reed of the Orange County Register about the latest Orange County news. Discussion topics include: Larry Agran and Proposition 51, the race for Orange County Superior Court judgeship number 21, campaign finance reform and an update on the Nativo Lopez recall.
The Mind and the Brain
Larry Mantle talks with neuroscientist Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz, a leading neuroscientist and Research Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and an international authority on brain diseases, about his new book. Co-authored with Sharon Begley, The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force (Regan Books) presents evidence for the independent existence of the mind, and demonstrates the possibility for human control over the workings of the brain.