Landmark Supreme Court Ruling for LGBT Rights (0:32)

Guest: Clifford Rosky, Professor of Law, University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law

The US Supreme Court ruled this week that employers cannot fire a worker for being gay or transgender. Two conservatives - Justice Neil Gorsuch and Chief Justice John Roberts – joined the court’s liberal minority to find that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBT individuals from workplace discrimination. First, what the ruling means for LGBT rights.

 

What Happened to the Supreme Court’s Conservative Majority? (11:04)

Guest: RonNell Andersen Jones, Professor of Law, SJ Quinney College of Law, University of Utah

Let’s look now at the politics of this Supreme Court decision. Why would a two conservative justices decide to vote in favor of gay and transgender worker rights? 

 

Discovering a Dino’s Last Meal (28:14)

Guest: Caleb Brown, Paleontologist at Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, Canada 

What did dinosaurs eat? For the most part, we can only guess, based on the shape of a dinosaur fossil’s teeth and jaw, or traces of meals found in fossilized dinosaur poop. (Until preparing for this conversation, I did not know fossilized dino poop existed.) Paleontologists in Canada have found something even better – an entire preserved stomach of a dinosaur with its last inside.

 

A Volcanic Solution to a Blood-Sucking Problem (40:23)

Guest: Michael Roe, William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Insect Toxicology and Physiological Genomics, NC State University

What would you guess is the deadliest animal in the world? It’s the mosquito. More than one million people die every year from mosquito-borne infection and disease – mainly malaria. But in sub-Saharan Africa where malaria is particularly rampant, mosquitoes are becoming resistant to pesticides. In a rather strange twist, researchers have found tiny shards of volcanic glass do the trick even better.

 

The Apple Seed (52:48)

Guest: Sam Payne, Host, The Apple Seed, BYUradio

Sam reflects on how much his father means to him as we approach Father's Day.

 

Juneteenth (1:03:28)

Guest: Noliwe Rooks, Professor of Africana Studies, Cornell University; Author of "Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education."

Target, Twitter, Best Buy, US Bank and Nike are all giving their employees this Friday off in celebration of Juneteenth. Target stores will stay open, but employees will receive time and a half for working the holiday.

 

Breathing for Health – It’s All About the Nose (1:18:48)

Guest: James Nestor, Journalist, Author of “Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art” 

It’s the kind of thing you take for granted until it’s gone. Today you will do it about 25,000 times and won’t give it a moment’s thought – unless you have a condition like asthma, in which case you probably think about breathing a lot. The rest of us would do well to spend more time thinking about it, because a lot of us are doing it wrong and suffering consequences without even realizing it. The breath you just took – was it through your mouth, or your nose?