All right. It’s Thanksgiving Eve and thousands of geek bodies are relatively tryptophan free before the big day. Sir Frederick Hopkins, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of vitamins, was the first person to isolate the standard amino acid in 1901. Since then, tryptophan has been discovered to be […]

On Tuesday & Wednesday, November 16-17, from 6 a.m.- 11 p.m., KPFT will preempt regular programming for 2 special days of fund-raising for the Pacifica Radio Archives. All programming normally on these hours will be preempted. This included Technology Bytes. We’ll be back on the air on Wednesday, Nov 24th!

As you are probably aware, KPFT is in the middle of its Fall Membership Drive. The overall station goal is to raise $350,000 by Wednesday, Nov. 10th. Technology Bytes has three fund raising episodes scheduled during the drive. We’ve already completed the first one on Oct. 27th and we met our goal of $1,600. It […]

Allright. It’s that time of the year again when we ask you to reach into your PayPal pockets to help keep KPFT on the Houston airwaves. I don’t know who first equated the price of a cup of coffee with a pledge amount, but it was a genius move, given the explosion of coffee’s popularity […]

Catch the Interview with Twitter co-founder Evan Williams. Interview starts about 25 minutes into the show.