Bench Talk | Coming Eclipses; Homophobia & IQ; Diabetes & COVID-19 (Iuliana Popescu) | Nov. 15, 2021

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English - November 15, 2021 20:36 - 29 minutes - 28.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
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The excitement is in the air....a lunar eclipse is on the way! Professor Scott Miller fills us in. Then, Dr. Leslie Moise discusses a recent paper showing a correlation between homophobia and low IQ. EarthDate.org fills us on how trees adapt to cold winter weather. And finally, our guest of honor, Dr. Iuliana Popescu (of the UK Diabetes Research Center) discusses the biological links between Diabetes and COVID-19.

Here are the full-length EarthDate stories on trees: https://www.earthdate.org/node/134 and https://www.earthdate.org/node/139.

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.

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