Sat, 26 July 2008
On October 4, 1947, “Leave it to Beaver”
premiered on US television…and space travel premiered in the USSR as the
Soviets launched the first Sputnik. We take a look at the roots of
Soviet space travel, and America’s response to it, with Fordham History
professor Asif Siddiqi.
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Sat, 19 July 2008
When we think of bullies, we tend to think
of things like bigger boys stuffing a smaller boy into a locker. But
when girls bully, it's a lot more covert, and some say a lot crueler.
We'll talk with JoAnne Dornfeld Januzzi, the principal of Henry H. Wells
Middle School in Brewster, about her research on how girls bully, and
what we can do about it.
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Mon, 14 July 2008
Most of us know about those Galapagos island finches, but we may not be
as aware that Charles Darwin was an avid botanist. We look at an
exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden that explores the role plants
played in Darwin's framing of his theory; and we hear about one of the
more interesting animal adaptations around--penguin song.
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Mon, 7 July 2008
We look at the summer scourge of ticks with Fordham researcher Thomas Daniels--and we hear about some of the possible long-term effects of a tick's bite.
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