Bench Talk: The Week in Science

What does the National Academies of Science say about the age groups that are most harmed by online schooling? Then, hear Dr. Naomi Charalambakis of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) speak on the neuroscience behind how visual and auditory information is transmitted in our bodies. What causes 'ZOOM fatigue', for instance? The title of her talk is 'What You See Is What You Get'. It is part of the 'Bench Talk Live' series put on by the Kentucky Academy of Science. Here is the link to the ZOOM recording of this talk if you want to see her slides: www.kyscience.org/bench_talk_live.php Bench Talk 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. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/ Bench Talk: The Week in Science | Neuroscience & the Pandemic (Naomi Charalambakis) | August 10, 2020

We are celebrating our 2nd birthday this week! Find out what planets, constellations, and meteor showers you can see in the night sky in August. Then hear about the Global Microbiome Vault project, the cellular link between stress and graying hair, and an extinct Pterosaur ('flying reptile') that lost a tooth inside the fossilized body of ancient Squid. Bench Talk 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. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/ Bench Talk: The Week in Science | August Sky; Microbiomes; Gray Hair; Dino vs. Squid | August 3, 2020 by Forward Radio is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.

Prepare yourself for the upcoming launch of 'Perseverance', the new Mars Rover. Then, hear what DNA analysis reveals about the Dead Sea Scrolls. The show ends with an essay about finding a balance between the science and the joyful appreciation of nature. Bench Talk 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. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/ Public domain music is 'Blue Danube' by Johann Strauss II (1866). Bench Talk: The Week in Science | Mars Rover; Dead Sea Scrolls; A Walk in the Park | July 27, 2020 by Forward Radio is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.

This episode is in honor of Barbara Conkin and A. Bennett Jenson, two scientists who passed away late last year. Hear about their lives and accomplishments. Then J. Scott Miller talks about the environmental impact of the coronavirus pandemic, and Jon Dixon discusses inquiry-based learning. Finally, Leslie Moise reports on what we can do to enhance bee populations. She finishes with a poem written specifically for this show. Bench Talk 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. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/ The music heard in this episode is 'Lovely Piano Song' by Rafael Krux available at the public domain website freepd.com. Bench Talk: The Week in Science | Eulogies; COVID & Climate; Inquiry Learning; Bees | July 13, 2020 by Forward Radio is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.

Saturn and Jupiter are visible in the night sky this month. Professor J Scott Miller will tell you about them, and one of our galaxy's black holes. Then, hear the first episode of 'Bench Talk Live' a new online series sponsored by the Kentucky Academy of Science. This week listen to Dr. Zeel Maheshwari (an electrical engineer at Northern Kentucky University) speak about building environmentally-sustainable 'Green Homes'. To see the slides from this 'Bench Talk Live' program and/or sign up for the next lecture session on 'Perception & Communication for the Pandemic' (7 p.m., Monday, July 13) go to www.kyscience.org/bench_talk_live.php Bench Talk 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. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/ Bench Talk: The Week in Science | July Sky; Green Homes (Dr. Zeel Maheshwari) | Jul

Saturn and Jupiter are visible in the night sky this month. Professor J Scott Miller will tell you about them, and one of our galaxy's black holes. Then, hear the first episode of 'Bench Talk Live' a new online series sponsored by the Kentucky Academy of Science. This week listen to Dr. Zeel Maheshwari (an electrical engineer at Northern Kentucky University) speak about building environmentally-sustainable 'Green Homes'. To see the slides from this 'Bench Talk Live' program and/or sign up for the next lecture session on 'Perception & Communication for the Pandemic' (7 p.m., Monday, July 13) go to https://www.kyscience.org/bench_talk_live.php Bench Talk 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. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/ Bench Talk: The Week in Science | July Sky; Green Homes (Dr. Zeel Maheshwar

Traditional vaccines take many years to develop. Why is there so much optimism that a vaccine for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus could be available as early as next spring? It's 'gene-based vaccines'! Learn about them on this show. We'll continue this story next week. Bench Talk 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. The music heard on this episode is 'Meditating Beat' by Kevin MacLeod available at the public domain website freepd.com. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/ Bench Talk: The Week in Science | Gene-Based Vaccines for the COVID-19 Coronavirus | June 22 2020 by Forward Radio is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.

Do you want to know how YOU can contribute to science yourself? Jon Dixon, science educator, tell us about Citizen Science. Then, J Scott Miller updates us on the latest observations that confirm Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Later in the show he discusses how climate models contradict speculations about future earth cooling due to sun activity and cloud cover. Also hear from Zachary Hall, another intern in the University of Kentucky ACTION program, talk about how cancer has impacted his family and his career choices. To learn more about ACTION visit https://ukhealthcare.uky.edu/markey-cancer-center/research/action. Information about their book, 'The Cancer Crisis in Appalachia: Kentucky Students Take ACTION' is at https://ukhealthcare.uky.edu/markey-cancer-center/research/action/book. Public domain music is 'Marimba on the Hunt' by Daniel Birch available at freemusicarchive.org. Bench Talk is a weekly program that airs on WFMP Louisville FORward Radio 106.5 FM (forwardradio.org) every Monday at 7:30 pm, T

Did you know that unarmed Black citizens in the U.S. are fatally shot by police at a rate that is 4.5 times higher than for Whites? Find out which states have the highest & lowest rates of police shootings of unarmed Black individuals and which states have the highest & lowest rates of structural racism. Are these two things correlated? The show ends with 10 recommendations for reducing police violence in the future. Here are some useful websites pertaining to this topic: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0027968417303206 and https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ and www.joincampaignzero.org/ Bench Talk 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. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/ Bench Talk: The Week in Science | Racism and Police Shootings | June 8, 2020 by Forward Radio is licensed u

Hear about SpaceX, the first commercial flight to carry astronauts into space. And then, what can we see in the night sky from our backyards this month? Finally, hear Carrigan Wasilchenko of the University of Kentucky's 'Appalachian Career Training in Oncology (ACTION) Program' talk about cancer-related professions. Our thanks to the ACTION program for giving us permission to broadcast this essay. You can learn more about ACTION at: https://ukhealthcare.uky.edu/markey-cancer-center/research/action Information about their book, 'The Cancer Crisis in Appalachia: Kentucky Students Take ACTION' is at: https://ukhealthcare.uky.edu/markey-cancer-center/research/action/book Thanks to NASA for the clip of the SpaceX launch. It is available at: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/spacex-dragon-launches-arrivals-and-departures/ Bench Talk 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. Visit our Facebook page for

Hear the end of the story about the NIH grant that was abruptly terminated by the Trump administration. Dave Lott, a local activist, gives his take on Wuhan conspiracy theories. And J Scott Miller discusses the impact of global climate change on ocean salinity. Bench Talk 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. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/BenchTalkRadio/ Bench Talk: The Week in Science | White House & Science Part-2; Ocean Salinity Levels | May 11, 2020 by Forward Radio is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.

Hear from Professor J. Scott Miller about what we can see in the night sky this month. Then Professor David Robinson discusses the NIH grant on the novel coronavirus that appears to have been abruptly terminated by the Trump administration. Bench Talk 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. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/ Here is the public-domain CSPAN recording of the White House event featured on this episode: https://www.c-span.org/video/?471279-1/president-trump-coronavirus-task-force-briefing Bench Talk: The Week in Science | Nightsky in May; The White House & Science | May 4, 2020 by Forward Radio is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.

How does community radio help us fight feelings of loneliness and isolation? What's up with the big eruption that was recently observed in a black hole? And how does the U.S. rate for science literary? Do Americans think they are better at science than they really are? Hear it all on this episode. Bench Talk 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. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio Thanks to Laura Tanner for her report on the black hole explosion. Public-domain music is by Dee Yan Key: 'Cosmopolitan-Margarita-Bellini' available at freemusicarchive.org. Bench Talk: The Week in Science | Community Radio; Black Holes; Science Literacy | April 13, 2020 by Forward Radio is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.

Wendy Sharp (Registered Nurse) gives helpful hints on how to shop safely in these days of coronavirus. J Scott Miller tells us when, where and how to view planets and meteor showers in April. Finally, we rebroadcast a portion of the November 27, 2019 episode of the Groks Science Radio Show featuring Professor Alberto Cairo (University of Miami). He wrote a book called 'How Charts Lie' and provides some helpful hints on how to better interpret graphs and charts. The full, public-domain interview is available at grokscience.wordpress.com/2019/11/27/charts/ Bench Talk 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. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/ Bench Talk: The Week in Science | Shopping & Coronavirus - April Sky - Graphs | April 6, 2020 by Forward Radio is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.

Dr. Andrea Z. Beaton of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital finishes her talk about the use of telemedicine to diagnose rheumatic heart disease in children living in underserved regions of Uganda. Her talk was given at Bellarmine University in Louisville on Feb. 11, 2020. The first part of this talk was broadcast on our March 9th episode. Then, we hear from microbiologist Dr. Julie Fischer of Georgetown University's Center for Global Health Science & Security interviewed on CSPAN-TV on March 13, 2020 about the new coronavirus pandemic. This public domain recording is available at https://www.c-span.org/video/?470260-3/washington-journal-julie-fischer-discusses-us-coronavirus-response Bench Talk 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. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/ Bench Talk: The Week in Science |

an you diagnose heart disease from 7000 miles away? Dr. Andrea Z. Beaton, physician and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center speaks about the use of telemedicine to diagnose rheumatic heart disease in children living in underserved regions of Uganda. This is a recording of her talk entitled 'Telemedicine and Task-Shifting in Sub-Saharan Africa: Applications in Rheumatic Heart Disease' given at Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY on Feb. 11, 2020. The rest of this talk will be broadcast on our March 16th episode. Bench Talk 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. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/ Bench Talk: The Week in Science | Telemedicine in Uganda (Andrea Beaton MD) | March 9, 2020 by Forward Radio is licensed under a  Creat

What planets, stars and constellations are visible this month? J Scott Miller describes it all. Then, guest reporter Laura Tanner, warns us about the dire threat that locusts have on food supplies in East Africa this year. And hear an edited interview with noted epidemiologist Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo about the new Coronavirus infection (Covid-19). She is at the John Hopkins School of Public Health and director of Outbreak Observatory. This public-domain interview was originally broadcast on CSPAN TV on Feb. 26 2020 at https://www.c-span.org/video/?469638-3/washington-journal-jennifer-nuzzo-discusses-us-global-response-coronavirus-outbreak. Bench Talk 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. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/ Bench Talk: The Week in Science | March's Night Sky; Locust Swarms; Corona Virus | Mar

This is a continuation of the Jan 23, 2020 press conference of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists about The Doomsday Clock. Hear Mary Robinson (former President of Ireland), Ban Ki-Moon (former Secretary-General of the United Nations), and Jerry Brown (former governor of California) discuss the problems of nuclear proliferation, climate change and cyber warfare, and what can be done about it. Listen to our Feb 10, 2020 episode to hear experts elucidate the issues. Here is the original link to this public-domain press conference: thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/ At the end of this episode astronomer/physicist Professor J Scott Miller (of Maysville Community and Technical and College) discusses the political ramifications of climate change. Bench Talk 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. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.c

The 'Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' has been warning us of the human-made dangers facing our world since they first announced the Doomsday Clock in 1947. Well, they just reset the Clock again! Do you know what time it is? Find out here! Here is the link to the Bulletin's public-domain press conference: thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/ Bench Talk 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. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/ Bench Talk: The Week in Science | The Doomsday Clock - Bulletin of Atomic Scientists | Feb 10, 2020 by Forward Radio is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.

What are the five planets we'll see in the night sky this month(February 2020)? And how do we see the planetary alignment that takes place? Plus, what have scientists done to slow the spread of the new Coronavirus that emerged in Wuhan, China this winter? You will be surprised! Bench Talk is a weekly program that airs on WFMP Louisville, KY FORward Radio 106.5 FM (forwardradio.org) every Monday at 7:30 pm, Tuesday at 11:30 am, and Wednesday at 7:30 am. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/ Music ('Blue Danube' by Richard Strauss) provided on public domain by the Philadelphia Orchestra - 1939 - Stowkovski conducting. Bench Talk: The Week in Science | February Night Sky & the Coronavirus from Wuhan China | Feb 3, 2020 by Forward Radio is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.