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This week we bring you eight fascinating science stories! Since some of them involve sexual anatomy or behavior, this episode might not be appropriate for children. We discuss the sexual anatomy of female snakes, the benefits of sperm cells swimming in clusters, how to put babies to sleep, the observation that men age faster than women at the DNA level, the factors affecting people's directional abilities, the virus behind multiple sclerosis, how the Milky Way might have created our continents, and evidence for widespread male homosexuality in Rhesus Macaques. That's a lot of territory!

‘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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Music ('Dance of the Reed Flutes') is from 'The Nutcracker Ballet' by Peter Tchaikovski (1892); public domain.

Dr. Ana Malinow discusses "Value Based Care" It's a policy concept lauded by the for-profit medical industy and by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In reality, it's a mechanism for privatization.

On this week’s Sustainability Now!, we celebrate the spirit of the season and the longest night of the year with a Winter Solstice show! Your host, Justin Mog, gathers around the bonfire with Lindsay Duncan, Corporate Partners Manager at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest (http://bernheim.org) and Ellen Trahan, Chair of the Board of Directors at the Louisville Sustainability Council (http://louisvillesustainabilitycouncil.org). Tune in to reclaim the night as we celebrate the value of darkness, inwardness, peace and quiet. As Lindsay puts it, “When we focus on the natural world and less on the chaos of the holidays, the season becomes more sustainable naturally! Decor becomes more natural/sustainable. We drive less. We enjoy the warmth of a fire. We buy less. CARPE NOCTEM - Seize the night! There is beauty in the winter darkness. Let’s celebrate it.”

The Winter Solstice is also the perfect time to remember the importance of dark sky conservation for not only appreciating astronomical phenomena, but also for the very survival of many creatures that migrate, hunt, and forage during the night!

In addition, we’ll share some of our favorite tips for making the holidays more sustainable, as we reflect a bit on the past year and what we’re looking forward to in 2024!

The Louisville Sustainability Council’s End of Year Celebration Green Drinks will be on Wednesday, December 20, 2023, starting at 6pm at the Monarch Music & Arts Community, 1318 Bardstown Rd. The Louisville Sustainability Council’s Green Drinks is a casual monthly meet-up of community members and organizations interested in deepening their connections to each other and to the Earth. In lieu of the usual featured speaker, this month, we’ll wrap up the year with our year-end celebration! Join us to celebrate our successes this year, as well as hear from you what you would like to see us work on in 2024. We will also experience Louisville’s new Music and Arts Community, while exploring the many intersections of art, music, and the environment. Green Drinks is held on the third Wednesday of every month at 6pm at rotating venues around town. More at https://www.louisvillesustainabilitycouncil.org/green-drinks

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

This week on Truth to Power, we bring you a national conversation about the power of community radio! Forward Radio was thrilled to participate in the 2023 Grassroots Radio Conference in Charleston, WV from Oct. 20-22. Today we bring you the conversation that kicked it all off, a panel moderated by Louisville’s own Sharon Scott from our sister station, ArtxFM WXOX on “How Community Radio is being leveraged to empower us all!” Speakers included:

Maria Martin - a multi-media journalist who currently directs the GraciasVida Center for Media, a nonprofit based in Texas and La Antigua, Guatemala devoted to the practice of independent journalism in the public interest. For the last twenty years, the Center has worked to improve the skills & working situation for rural, provincial, & Indigenous journalists in Guatemala, Bolivia, & Nicaragua, as well as to improve the coverage of Central America on U.S. public radio. An award-winning public radio journalist for over four decades, Martin developed ground-breaking programs for public radio, including NPR’s Latino USA. She’s the recipient of Fulbright and several Knight Fellowships, and has won over two dozen awards for her work covering Latino issues and Latin America.

Dr. MarkAlain Déry - an infectious disease physician and public health practitioner in New Orleans. Dr. Dery co-founded WHIV-LP, a radio station dedicated to human rights and social justice. WHIV first went on air on World AIDS Day (December 1st), 2014 with a mission to promote advocacy through innovative messaging. Dr. Déry actively helped to lead the response to COVID-19 in New Orleans and hosted the NoiseFilter show throughout the pandemic. http://NoiseFilterShow.com

Dr. Rob Quicke - Co-founder of World College Radio Day, which launched in 2011 by Coldplay's Chris Martin. Over 1,000 college radio stations in 53 countries have participated in the last decade. Dr. Quicke is also professor and director of the School of Journalism & Mass Communications at Marshall University, WV. Previously he was General Manager of WPSC from 2007 to 2021, when it won the Marconi Award for Best College Radio Station of the Year. Dr. Quicke is also author of the upcoming book Finding Your Voice in Audio, Radio & Podcast Production (2024, Routledge).

LaGanzie Kale - the founder and General Manager of KLEK, the first & only minority operated radio station in Jonesboro, Arkansas. KLEK was made possible by the 2010 Local Community Radio Act, giving low-power stations a place on the FM dial. LaGanzie saw an opportunity and worked to build a station from the ground up. The 100-watt station launched on Jan. 1, 2015. In 2016 Kale was presented with an Arkansas Community Service Award by Gov. Asa Hutchinson.

Joseph Orozco - Board member to the Pacifica Association of Affiliates. He was the first editor of the only independent newspaper in Hoopa Valley he named, Common Sense. In 1978 he worked with the Tribal Education Committee on their Radio Project and attended his first NFCB Regional Summit. That is where he experienced Non-Commercial Educational FM and never looked back. In 1980 KIDE-FM Hoopa Tribal Radio signed on-air. Orozco was a Board Member. In 1988 he was hired to be the Station Manager. Currently he works part-time as the KIDE Website Content Coordinator. He helped initiate the Indigenous Communication Association & was recently appointed to the Hoopa Tribal Education Association, Board of Directors.

Learn more at https://www.2023grassrootsradioconference.com/

On Truth to Power each week, we gather people from around the community to discuss the state of the world, the nation, the state, and the city! It's a community conversation like you won't hear anywhere else!

Truth to Power airs Fridays at 9pm, Saturdays at 11am, & Sundays at 4pm on Louisville's Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at http://forwardradio.org

K.A. Owens interviews Deanna "Stretch" Rushing, Belle Townsend, and Noelle Tennis Gulden. Topic: Ceasefire in Palestine.

Stretch is currently doing a hunger strike on behalf of a Ceasefire in Palestine.

Belle is Communications Lead for Louisville Showing Up For Racial Justice. Noelle is with LSURJ Faith and Care Not Cages Campaign.

Belle , Stretch and Noelle are all asking for a Ceasefire in Palestine.

Recorded Thursday December 14, 2023, 2PM

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This week we chat with Kelcey Ervick whose graphic memoir The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women’s Lives I (Amy) discovered after our friend and former guest, Bethany, told us about what a great book it was.

Kelcey is the author of four books but The Keeper is her first foray into a full graphic experience. She weaves her own personal story of being a high school and Division I college soccer player with the history and effect Title IX has had on women in all areas of their lives, not just in sports. If you loved the feminist bent of the movie Barbie, this book will give you similar vibes.

The Keeper has been recommended by the NYT Book Review, Publisher’s Weekly, School Library Journal, and was the winner of the state literary prize of Ohio, the Ohioana Book Award, which has been awarded to other notable authors including Celeste NG, Ross Gay, and John Scalzi. Even if you aren’t a sports fan (and I am not), you will thoroughly enjoy this book.

Remember, that in Season 10, Amy has a new project which is to give listeners book recommendations. If you’re looking for a book set in Romania, or a book about rabbits, or a book about changelings, or anything in between, send us a message and we’ll recommend a similar read you can add to your nightstand.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women's Lives by Kelcey Ervick

2- The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

3- The Bitter Life of Bozena Nemcova: A Biographical Collage by Kelcey Ervick

4- The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature edited by Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart

5- Good Talk by Mira Jacob

6- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

7- Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

8- Pretending is Lying by Dominique Goblet

9- The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron

10- Art and Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland

11- Wild Seed by Octavia Butler

12- Mind of My Mind by Octavia Butler

13- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

14- America Redux by Ariel Aberg-Riger

15- Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen

16- Landings: A Crooked Creek Farm Year by Arwen Donahue

5 Star Book Recommendation by a Fellow Book Lover Barbara K. - @msbarbarasbookshelf - Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Podcasts mentioned--

The To Read List Podcast (Jul 2020 episode)

On this week’s Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, puts down his shovel for a life-affirming conversation with Erik Ohlsen, Regenerative Designer, Educator & Author of new book “The Regenerative Landscaper: Design and Build Landscapes That Repair the Environment.” Erik is a master of regenerative design, an internationally recognized Permaculture teacher, a landscape contractor, author, farmer, herbalist, storyteller, and practitioner of Nordic folk traditions. Learn more at http://erikohlsen.com

Erik has founded numerous organizations that regenerate ecosystems including his award winning design and build firm Permaculture Artisans and The Permaculture Skills Center where thousands of students around the world learn ecological landscaping and regenerative agriculture. Find out more at http://permacultureartisans.com

Our conversation explores how we can all become producers and not just consumers. Learn what regenerative design is and how engaging in it can be the best treatment for those suffering from climate anxiety. Find out what makes soil healthy and what’s the connection to healthy food; how fungi and plants can be used to repair damaged soils; why the debate between native vs. exotic plants doesn’t have to be so black and white; and how the lawn has become one of the greatest problems in the country.

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

Kenneth S. Stern is the director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate. BCSH brings scholars from diverse disciplines to Bard College at its eight campuses , including New York City, Boston, California, and Germany to speak about the human capacity to hate and demonize others.

Ken Stern is an award-winning author, attorney, and was most recently executive director of the Justus & Karin Rosenberg Foundation. Before that he was director of the division on antisemitism and extremism at the American Jewish Committee, where he worked for 25 years.

His op-eds and book reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, the Forward, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and elsewhere. Mr. Stern has appeared on the CBS Evening News, Dateline, Good Morning America, Face the Nation, the History Channel, NBC Nightly News, PBS, and many other television and radio programs, including National Public Radio’s Fresh Air and All Things Considered, and WNYC’s On the Media.

Ken Stern has argued before the United States Supreme Court, testified before Congress (as well as before committees of parliamentarians in Canada and the U.K.), was an invited presenter at the White House Conference on Hate Crimes, and served as a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Stockholm Forum on Combating Intolerance.

This week, we bring you a vital community conversation about the problem of single-use plastics and solutions right here in Louisville. We'll listen back to the REAL Good News Virtual Forum on Plastic Pollution Solutions in The Ville from Wednesday, December 6th. Louisville’s on the move to reduce plastic pollution and increase renewable energy. Hear about initiatives to reduce single-use plastics in Louisville, get an update on the city’s sustainability programs and learn how you can attend Metro Council meetings to speak in favor of implementing Louisville's clean energy resolution. Speakers include:

• Gianna Bennett, Communications Coordinator, Mayor’s Office of Sustainability

• Betsy Ruhe, District 21 Metro Council Representative

• Pam Raidt with Beyond Plastics Louisville

Music by Louisville musician and activist John Gage will open and close the event. The sponsoring organizations are 100%REAL, Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light, and the Christian Action group of St. Paul United Methodist Church. Learn more at http://renewableenergylouisville.org

Beyond Plastics Louisville e-mail:

Beyond Plastics Louisville Facebook page:

https://m.facebook.com/groups/beyondplasticslouky/?locale=nn_NO

National Beyond Plastics website:

https://www.beyondplastics.org/

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Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese

2- The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

3- Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

4- Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopolou

5- Krazyland by Mar Romasco-Moore

6- Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak

7- This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

8- Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain by Andrew McCarthy

9- The Weight We Carry by Christina Consolino

10- The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp by Leonie Swann

11- House of Gold by CT Rwizi

12- The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni

13- Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

14- Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

15- Mastering the Art of French Murder by Colleen Cambridge

16- Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind who changed the Bible and Why by Bart Ehrman

17- The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay

18- The Night Eaters by Marjorie Liu

19- Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy

20- I Am Not Your Eve by Devika Ponnambalam

Five Star Read Recommended by a Fellow Book Lover Carol @pirotandpinot

We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker

Movies and TV series Discussed

1- Creature (2023/Netflix)

2- The Frankenstein Chronicles (2015-2017)

3- Mary Shelley (2015)

4- The Family Stone (2005)

5- Knock at the Cabin (2023)