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What can we see in the night sky during the month of August? Scott Miller fills us in. And who exactly is the 'James Webb Space Telescope' named after? What was Webb’s role in the 1950's 'Lavender Scare' where homosexuals working in government were fired? Hear the first half of a video produced by the 'JustSpace Alliance': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqrZ0Pl-KjQ

The second half of this video will be broadcast later, along with NASA's response. Thanks to the 'JustSpace Alliance' for permission to rebroadcast their video. Here is their website: https://justspacealliance.org/

‘Bench Talk: The Week in Science’ is a weekly program that airs on WFMP Louisville FORward Radio 106.5 FM (forwardradio.org) every Monday at 7:30 pm, Tuesday at 11:30 am, and Wednesday at 7:30 am.

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K.A. Owens interviews Ivonne Rovira. Ivonne is a spanish teacher in Louisville, KY. Ivonne explains the reasons for the teacher shortage in the United States.

Recorded Friday July 29, 2022.

Episode #31 of LouisvilleReads! Finishing summer reading with Jewish-American novelist Joshua Cohen's deliciously funny (and deeply intelligent) winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction 'The Netanyahus' (2021). The fictional Professor of American Economic History Dr. Reuben Blum at the fictional Corbin College in fictional Corbindale, NY serves as personal and professional escort for the newly arrived (and very non fictional) Professor of Medieval Studies Dr. Benzion Netanyahu, Zionist academic and father of future Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is actively in tow. Ranging from prose drawing on Yiddish theater and Saul Bellow to sitcom slapstick and Phillip Roth, the Blums and Netanyahus collaborate and collide in all the right and wrong ways and find that some of the ideological borders between international (and American) Jewry are just as intractable as any wall any Netanyahu ever set up on the West Bank. #Louisville #Read #Netanyahu 🇺🇸🇮🇱📻📚

Trinity Wooten lives in Louisville, Ky. She is a J. Graham Brown School alum. She will be attending the University of Kentucky this fall. She plans to study Psychology and hopes to focus her work on anxiety disorders in the future.

She is a social justice advocate and participated in numerous community programs such as Planned Parenthood’s Teen Council and the Muhammad Ali Center Council of Students. In 2021, she was recognized for her creative writing abilities and was selected to attend the Governor School for the Arts.

Trinity lives at home with her parents and dog Teddy. When she's not advocating for important issues or writing poems, she enjoys painting and spending time with her family and friends.

Melissa Patrick with KY Health News discusses a recent reports about Kentucky's health ranking with Mike Flynn and Gene Shively

We are taking the month of July off to recharge but will be back with all new episodes in August. But until then, we have some great replay episodes.

This week, we revisit our episode with Melissa Hart, author of Better With Books: 500 Diverse Books to Ignite Empathy and Encourage Self-Acceptance in Tweens and Teens. This book is a wonderful resource that offers book suggestions in various categories, including adoption/foster care, poverty/homelessness, mental health, and physical disabilities. With some schools and libraries censoring what students can find in their stacks, parents may find this book particularly helpful if they want to allow their children to read widely.

Melissa Hart also has a new book coming out in November of this year titled Daisy Woodworth Changes the World about a 13-year-old girl who tries to help her older brother, who has Down Syndrome and adores Special Olympics and men’s fashion, become a YouTube celebrity.

This week’s episode is a nod to back-to-school season when teachers can get books into the hands of kids after a summer of free days, endless video games, and probably too many popsicles. We are joined by Melissa Hart from Eugene Oregon. She is the author of 2 memoirs, a middle grade book, and most recently a great resource for teachers, librarians, and parents called 'Better with Books: 500 Diverse Books to Ignite Empathy and Encourage Self-Acceptance in Tweens and Teens'.

When Melissa’s tween daughter was in elementary school, she dealt with anxiety and depression, and Melissa found a way to help her through reading targeted books together, a practice called bibliotherapy which some studies suggest is effective in the treatment of some forms of depression. But the list of books in 'Better With Books' can also help a young person develop empathy and be more accepting of others who have different experiences from their own such as individuals with physical disabilities, mental health struggles, body image issues, and students from different religious backgrounds.

You can find find Melissa on instagram @wildmelissahart or at her website at www.melissahart.com.

Books mentioned--

1- Better with Books: 500 Books to Ignite Empathy and Encourage Self-Acceptance in Tweens and Teens by Melissa Hart

2- Pinballs by Betsy Ayers

3- What Goes Up Must Come Down by Johanna Hurwitz

4- Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes

5- Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo

6- The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Patterson

7- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

8- Far From the Tree by Robin Benway

9- Ten Things I Can See From Here by Carrie Mac

10- If I Ever Get Out of Here (audiobook) by Eric Gansworth

11- Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo

12- Avenging the Owl by Melissa Hart

13- Wild Within: How Rescuing Owls Inspired a Family by Melissa Hart

14- Dune by Frank Herbert

15- Dune Messiah (Book 2) by Frank Herbert

16- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

17- The Overstory by Richard Powers

18- There, There by Tommy Orange

19- Harry's Trees by John Cohen

20- Wishtree by Katherine Applegate

21- Pax by Sara Pennypacker

22- The One and Only Bob / The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

23- Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

24- Watership Down by Richard Adams

Movies mentioned--

1- Dune (October 2021), directed by Denis Villeneuve

Our system of food and farming has huge consequences for our climate and our biosphere, for better or worse.

On this episode, we take a sober look at our food system such as it is currently... because if we see how bad it is, we will want to change it.

The great news is that we can change it with our buying decisions and in our decisions about what food to grow ourselves. We don't have to wait for changes in public policy.

On this week’s show, your host, Justin Mog, turns the mics on Kyle Kramer, a local podcaster and Executive Director of the Passionist Earth & Spirit Center over on Newburg Road (http://earthandspiritcenter.org). Kyle is host of the Earth & Spirit podcast (https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1004504654/earth-and-spirit) from Louisville Public Media, and Justin had the delight of being on Kyle's podcast (https://lpm-od.streamguys1.com/earthspirit/20211103115745-EarthSpiritPodcast2021-11-2-ARestoredEarth-QuakerEnvironmentalistJustinMogonOpeningOurHeartstoRightRelationships.mp3), and featured in lovely documentary that Kyle produced with Bernheim called "Grounded: Conversations on Nature and Climate Change" (https://youtu.be/fL_rHzS3rcQ). You can hear the full conversations that went into that documentary at https://lpm-od.streamguys1.com/earthspirit/20220713131117-EarthSpiritPodcast2022-7-15-Grounded.mp3?sc=siteplayer&aw_0_1st.playerid=siteplayer

Kyle has served as the Executive Director of the Earth & Spirit Center since 2014. In addition to his administrative responsibilities at the Center, Kyle also teaches courses on Thomas Berry. Prior to coming to the Earth & Spirit Center, Kyle was the director of graduate theology programs and ministry formation for Saint Meinrad, a Benedictine monastery and Roman Catholic school of theology. Kyle and his family spent fifteen years as organic farmers and homesteaders in Spencer County, Indiana. Kyle currently serves as a Catholic Climate Ambassador for the Catholic Climate Covenant and is the author of A Time to Plant: Life Lessons in Work, Prayer, and Dirt (Ave Maria Press, 2010) and Making Room: Soul-Deep Satisfaction Through Simple Living (Franciscan Media, 2021). He is a former columnist and essayist for America magazine and a current columnist for Franciscan Media’s St. Anthony Messenger magazine. He speaks across the country on issues of ecology and spirituality. Kyle was a Herman B. Wells Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington and holds a double BA in Religious Studies and Germanic Studies, having spent a year at the Universität Hamburg in Germany. He earned a Master of Divinity, Honors Diploma, from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, Atlanta. Kyle is a trained singer and guitarist and he enjoys rock climbing.

Connect with Kyle at

https://www.facebook.com/kyle.t.kramer.9

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-kramer-6b341529/

As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW!

Sustainability Now! is hosted by Dr. Justin Mog and airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at http://forwardradio.org

The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at http://appalatin.com

K.A. Owens interviews retired attorney and former Louisville, KY Board Of Aldermen member Bill Allison. Topic: Bill has organized an annual tribute in Paris , KY, to African American Trumpet player Bill Coleman (born and raised in Paris, KY).

Bill Allison's original hometown is Paris, KY.

Recorded Thursday July 21, 2022.

Linda Duncan earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Kentucky and graduated from the University of Louisville's Rank I Administration and Supervision program. She taught at Southern High School and was a teacher and assistant principal at Fairdale High School. She has served two terms as an at-large director on the Kentucky School Boards Association and is a member of the National School Boards Association.