Notes from the Electronic Cottage 7/7/16

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Software has become an increasingly large part of our everyday lives, including interpreting our medical information and, soon, driving our cars. But what happens if the software is wrong, and, worse, if we can’t figure out just what the software is actually doing. A couple of recent news items we might have missed with everything else going on in the world suggest this is not an idle question.

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Maine Currents 7/6/16

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: John Greenman

Candidate scandals and lies- it’s hard to keep up, but today we do some fact checking following Trump’s rally in Bangor last week, his recent controversial tweets and the FBI’s findings re Hillary Clinton’s email servers. Features audio clips from the FBI press conference and Trump’s rally. Guest commentator, cultural critic and former Ism Prism host Valentine King gives us his take.

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Coastal Conversations in Acadia 7/4/16

Producers: Catherine Schmitt and Eric Green

Today’s topic: Champlain 1

Two-thousand sixteen is the 100th anniversary of Acadia National Park and America’s National Park System. In honor of this centennial, the University of Maine Sea Grant Program and WERU-FM, both official Centennial Partners, present an occasional series based on the monthly public affairs program, Coastal Conversations.

The ocean surrounds Acadia National Park, which includes 47,000 acres of protected land on Mount Desert Island, Isle au Haut, Schoodic Peninsula, and their archipelago of islands in the Gulf of Maine. Acadia’s rocky shoreline, teeming tide pools, and lush salt marshes have attracted mariners, fisher folk, and people in search of natural beauty for thousands of years. In more recent centuries, many have come to study the unique and diverse assembly of flora and fauna of the region where science, conservation, and community work together for a vibrant future.

Throughout the summer and fall of 2016, on Monday’s at noon, “Coastal Conversations in Acadia” will feature short stories from Acadia on WERU-FM

FMI: www.seagrant.umaine.edu/coastalconversations/acadia

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