Producer/Host: R.W. Estela
Studio Engineer: Allison Watters
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Producer/Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Sea Grant
Topic: Protection for Working Waterfronts
What is “working waterfront” and why is it important? What are the threats to Maine’s working waterfront? What is being done to protect them?
Guests: Jen Litteral, Policy Directory, Island Institute; Natalie Springuel, University of Maine Sea Grant; Gerry Cushman, President, Port Clyde Fisherman’s Co-op; Nick Battista, Congressman Pingree’s Office staff
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Producers/Hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
Segment 1: Climate conference in Cancun, Mexico
Segment 2: Local artist/activist Robert Shetterly talks about a national “Veterans for Peace” protest that he will be attending (and reporting from) in Washington, DC next week.
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Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Pretty much everyone has probably heard untold hours of blather about Wikileaks latest publications of “classified” U.S. documents. But what we haven’t been hearing is discussion about issues underlying the Wikileaks furor, so let’s discuss some of them here.
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Producer/Host: Cynthia Swan
Guest: Anu Dudley
“Uses of Darkness”
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Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Here are the science web sites mentioned in today’s Electronic Cottage:
www.science.gov – gateway to information from 14 federal agencies
www.data.gov – raw data from federal agencies and tools to analyze it
www.PopSci.com – web site run by Popular Science magazine
www.cosmosmagazine.com – Australian science magazine site for “The Science
of Everything”
www.zooniverse.org – work on real science projects from home
Eurekafund.org, FundScience.org, Sciflies.org – all
sites that allow individuals to help fund science research they are
interested in.
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