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Davisville, Sept. 22, 2025: Useful but dull information + humor = attention

You’ve got information. People need to hear it. It’s useful ... and it’s dull. This circumstance is a common problem for people who work in communications, such as today’s guest, Mark Deamer. One way to draw the disinterested is humor, if you get the balance right, which is why we open this week with Floppy and Cow. They’re a couple of screwball characters — well, Cow is deeper than that — that Mark helped create to present basic messages around tech and cybersecurity at UC Davis a few years ago. They won a couple of awards from a university tech trade group.

Mark, a Davis lifer who moved to town when he was 3, is a designer and illustrator by trade, has designed stage sets for local theater, and has created interpretive illustrations for locations and clients ranging from Davis Central Park to the Cache Creek Conservancy. He’s one of those people in Davis whom you might not have met, in other words, but you might have seen his work. We talk about it all — design, art, where ideas come from — today on Davisville.

Image comes from the video animation "KB Khronicles" 

Wellness Within Reach

Today, The News Cycle explores mental health, stress, and ways to decompress. We open with a conversation with Corwin Green, a UC Davis undergraduate advisor. Then, Maggie Lubell highlights the DHS Wellness Center as a resource for students. Finally, Maya Davis talks to a therapist an associate clinical worker and a DHS student on how to manage stress both in and outside school. 

Hosted and Produced by Evridiki Vougioka. Packages by Evridiki Vougiouka, Maggie Lubell and Maya Davis. Music by Daniel Ruiz Jimenez. 

Divine Intervention (1st/3rd week) – The Electric Compost Heap (2nd/4th week) for 6:00pm on Sep 19th, 2025

Eddy Owt fills in for Jess Godesse with all of your Divine Intervention faves: new music, old music, Vinyl Vespers (pictured) and even a special Goddess of the Day (Margo Price)!

18. Dispatch from Dublin – Little Babies Big Risks

In today’s episode the tables are turned and I am a guest on the The Walk and Talk Improvement Podcast in Ireland. This is a special episode to mark the 2025 World Patient Safety Day. This year’s theme is “Safe care for every newborn and every child” and it highlights the need to prevent avoidable harm in child health settings. I’m interviewed by John FitzSimons, a consultant pediatrician at Children’s Health Ireland in Dublin. We talk about some of the unique features and risks in the care of newborns and children that must be tackled to make care as safe as possible.

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