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The latest exhibit at the American Visionary Art Museum brings arts and athletics together. The exhibit, “Good Sports: The Wisdom & Fun of Fair Play," is on display now through August 2025. We get a preview from Associate Curator and Grants Manager Gage Branda. This interview previously aired on November 1, 2024.
It’s the season of winter celebrations--who doesn’t love a good holiday story? Christmas and Hanukkah practically intersect this year -- and have we got the perfect Stoop stories to share with you! Tales about mall Santas, rabid gerbils and spreading light in dark times.
Happiness. What’s your plan for getting there? For most of us, it’s some form of trial and error. We may think being good to ourselves -- a nice house, or car, or clothes will move us along. Maybe a promotion at work or, for students, terrific grades. Actually, no….. We ask Yale psychology professor Laurie Santos, who hosts “The Happiness Lab” podcast, how science shows the way. This interview originally aired on February 13, 2024.
Mosquitoes kill more humans than any other foe. They spread many deadly diseases, including malaria, which each year infects about 250 million people in dozens of countries. And each year 600,000 people die from malaria, most of them children in Africa. What if there were a way to make mosquitoes ineffective with the help of bacteria? Scientists at the Malaria Research Institute at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health say they’ve made a breakthrough to do just that. We speak with George Dimopoulos, PhD, a mosquito-vector biologist and professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Bloomberg School.
Here’s a Stoop Story from Patricia Kirk, a member of the Benedictine Sisters of Emmanuel Monastery, about a Christmas blessing.
In Baltimore, for the past nine years, veterans charged with misdemeanors have had a chance to choose an alternative to sentencing and incarceration called Veterans Treatment Court. Now the Veterans Treatment Court has expanded to four neighboring counties -- Baltimore, Howard, Carroll and Harford. District Court Senior Judge Halee Weinstein shares why she founded the program and the progress she's witnessed.
You can’t have dinner without dirt. Soil is where all of our food starts, whether you’re a vegan or a carnivore. There are lots of things that impact the condition of dirt, and the Maryland Board of Soil Stewards is in place to ensure farmers have the tools they need to make soil healthy for the future. We hear from Jordan Bethea, farm manager for BLISS Meadows, a project of Backyard Basecamp, about how they do it.
Maryland is staring at its worst budget crisis in 20 years. Decades ago the General Assembly set up a “Spending Affordability Committee” to track state spending and revenues and ensure spending does not rise faster than the state’s economy is growing. We talk with the Senate co-chair of that committee, Democrat Jim Rosapepe, who represents parts of Prince George’s and Anne Arundel counties.
How is a training program expanding access to abortion care in Maryland's rural areas?
A decade ago, state, federal, and local leaders signed the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement, setting the goals to restore and protect the Bay and its tributaries. Two years ago, and again last week, the Chesapeake Executive Council acknowledged it wouldn’t meet its 2025 deadline. So, what now? We speak with Hilary Harp Falk, president and CEO of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
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