What did Dr. Elizabeth Haswell say about science podcasting at the 2019 MWASPB conference? What are the advantages of adding 'A' (Art) to STEM education (making it STEAM)? Are there other reasons for fireflies to glow intermittently? And hear commentary from Professor Scott Miller about the science (and politics) of global climate change.

Here is the link to 'The Taproot' podcast: plantae.org/podcasts/the-taproot/

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Bench Talk: The Week in Science | MWASPB part-2; STEAM; Fireflies; Climate Change | July 22, 2019 by Forward Radio is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.

The 2019 annual meeting of the Midwestern section of the American Society of Plant Biologists was held at West Virginia University in March. Hear the amazing things that plant researchers are doing in the lab and in the field.

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Bench Talk: The Week in Science | Today in Plant Biology (MWASPB Conference) | July 15, 2019 by Forward Radio is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.

What stars, planets and constellations are visible in the night sky this month? Professor Scott Miller fills us in......

Dr. Dave Robinson discusses a recent paper about what happens to black bears when they eat human food. What does that say about the food WE eat? The show ends with a fitting poem written by Dr. Leslie Moise.

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Music ('Blue Danube' by Richard Strauss) provided on public domain by the Philadelphia Orchestra - 1939 - Stowkovski conducting.

Bench Talk: The Week in Science | July Night Sky; Bear-Human Diets & Poem | July 1, 2019 by Forward Radio is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.

Hear Dr. Marcia McNutt (President of the National Academy of Sciences) give the commencement address at Boston University (May 2019). She discusses the scientific method and the importance of scientific thinking in our current political environment.

Preceding this is a short discussion of an important statistical technique (correlation analysis). What is the 'hairy-bald rule' in Russia, anyway?

Thanks to Dr. McNutt and Boston University for permission to rebroadcast her talk. More information is at http://www.bu.edu/articles/2019/bu-commencement-marcia-mcnutt

Edward Elgar's 'Pomp and Circumstance' (public-domain) was provided by Free Music Warehouse.

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Bench Talk: The Week in Science | Truth Still Matters - Dr. Marcia McNutt (NAS) | June 24, 2019 by Forward Radio is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.

What's the science behind the most recent jury decision against Monsanto's (Bayer) weed killer, Roundup? Why has the EPA increased the amount of Roundup allowed in our food? Does Roundup increase the risk of getting cancer (Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma)?

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Bench Talk: The Week in Science | Update on Monsanto's herbicide Roundup | June 17, 2019 by Forward Radio is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.

What stars, constellations, galaxies, and planets are visible in the night sky this month? How will northern nations benefit from climate change, while others won't? What's the 'ubermind' and how do your friends influence it?

Music is by Dee Yan Key: 'Cosmopolitan-Margarita-Bellini' from freemusicarchive.com.

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Bench Talk: The Week in Science | June Sky; Climate-Change Inequality; Uberminds | June 10, 2019 by Forward Radio is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.

Commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day by hearing about the latest research on The Holocaust. Also, what are the characteristics of poor neighborhoods that most effect the income mobility of it's children?

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Bench Talk: The Week in Science | The Holocaust and How Neighborhoods Effect Incomes | June 3, 2019 by Forward Radio is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.

Intersex has been in the news lately. 'Intersex' describes a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male. Hear about a hero of the American Revolution who was probably intersex, and an Olympic runner who has just been banned from competing in certain events. Also, the illegal capture of whales in Russia, and changes in the status of recycling in Lexington, KY. They aren't recycling paper anymore!

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Bench Talk: The Week in Science | Intersex in the News | May 27, 2019 by Forward Radio is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.

Do you know what a quake on Mars sounds like? Mars wind? Listen here. Louisville poet Dr. Leslie Moise reads a poem she specifically wrote for this magical event.

Also, what do geoscientists in Kentucky think about climate change? Dr. Trent Garrison reports on a study that he and an NKU student just conducted.

This show includes a story about Chronic Wasting Disease in deer (the deer populations in half of US states are now affected). Also, what's happening with that Beluga Whale found in Norway that had spy cameras attached to it?

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Bench Talk: The Week in Science | Hear the Marsquake; Deer Disease; Spying Whales | May 20 2019 by Forward Radio is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.

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Join us in celebrating 100 years of Pete Seeger and 500 years of Leonardo da Vinci! And how can you be more like da Vinci? Plus, did you know that living in cities is LESS environmentally damaging than living in the countryside?

The Pete Seeger song 'Soon As We Cook Sweet Potatoes' is a public domain recording from 1960.

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Bench Talk: The Week in Science | Pete Seeger, Leonardo da Vinci; Environment Trends | May 13, 2019 by Forward Radio is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.