Bench Talk | Racehorse Fatalities - Science of Reading (Literacy Ed.) - June Skies | June 5, 2023

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English - June 06, 2023 15:11 - 28 minutes - 27.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
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What factors might be causing the rash of racehorse accidents and fatalities at Churchill Downs this year? What can be done about it? Leslie Moise reports. Rob Weber visits the James E. Farmer Elementary School (in Louisville, KY) to see one of Kentucky's most successful 'Science of Reading' programs for teaching literacy. Scott Miller tells us what planets and stars we can see in the night sky in June, 2023.

There are also two EarthDate contributions this week. One about the valuable resources found at the bottom of oceans: https://www.earthdate.org/episodes/treasure-on-the-seafloor, and the other about the first human remains to be interred on the Moon: https://www.earthdate.org/episodes/the-man-on-the-moon.

‘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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