RadioActive 6/17/10

Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco

Topics: DEP names Bisphenol – A priority chemical; Rep. Andy O’Brian on pesticide spray legislation

The Department of Environmental Protection has named Bisphenol-A the first priority chemical to take on under the Kids Safe Products Act. Steve Taylor with the Environmental Health Strategy Center gives us the latest from a hearing today in Augusta. And we have an update from Rep. Andy O’Brian on the pesticide spray notification legislation signed into law June 8th and the upcoming Board of Pesticides hearings on pesticide spraying next week.

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 6/17/10

Producer/Host:  Jim Campbell
Think mind reading is the stuff of science fiction? These days, it’s getting to be much more science and much less fiction. Using medical imaging devices and powerful computers, researchers around the world are succeeding in reading minds in a rudimentary way – at least at the moment – and, naturally, spy agencies and governments are very interested.

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Wabanaki Windows 6/15/10

Producer/Host: Donna Loring

Guest cohost: Maria Girouard, Director, Penobscot Cultural and Historic Preservation Department

Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

Topic: Native America Veterans

What is the historical context of native involvement in American wars?  How was Penobscot alliance with France established?  (Family bloodlines with French nobility)  How was Public Law, Chapter 51, LD30, “An Act to Establish Native American Veterans’ Day” introduced and passed?

Guest: James E. Francis, Tribal Historian, www.penobscotculture.org

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