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If you are a regular listener of our show, you’ve probably heard our many discussions recently about South Carolina’s SmartState program where 51 endowed chairs are tasked with developing centers for economic excellence based on their research efforts. Since 2012, research at our next guest’s center has resulted in six patents and the formation of a startup company that is working on commercial development of nanotechnology for the remediation of oil spills in the environment. Mike Switzer interviews Jamie Lead, founder of GeoMat and the endowed chair and professor at the Center for Environmental Nanoscience and Risk at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.

You may not know this but colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the US. This is particularly troublesome to the medical community because it is a disease that is highly curable if detected early through a colonoscopy. Increasing that concern is the fact that, since the pandemic, colorectal cancer screening has plummeted by 86%. Our next guest is trying to do something about this situation by bringing artificial intelligence into the equation. Mike Switzer interviews Margarita Murphy, a surgeon and medical director at the Colorectal Endosurgery Institute of the Carolinas in Mt. Pleasant, SC.

Tourism is a very big part of our state’s economy which is why tourist attractions here continue to be encouraged and developed. Our next guest is going to tell us about a new one. Mike Switzer interviews Doug Bostick, executive director of the South Carolina Battleground Preservation Trust which is developing the Liberty Trail.

With warming weather, snakes are active.

Nematocampa resistaria, the filament bearer, bordered thorn or horned spanworm moth, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1856. It is found in North America from British Columbia to Nova Scotia, south to Florida and California.

The eastern phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) is a small passerine bird. The genus name Sayornis is constructed from the specific part of Charles Lucien Bonaparte's name for Say's phoebe, Muscicapa saya, and Ancient Greek ornis, "bird". Phoebe is an alternative name for the Roman moon-goddess Diana, but it may also have been chosen to imitate the bird's call.

Crayfish are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters (to which they are related). In some locations, they are also known as crawfish, craydids, crawdaddies, crawdads, freshwater lobsters, mountain lobsters, rock lobsters, mudbugs, or yabbies.

A listener sees an alligator in the water on Folly Beach. That's not a preferred habitat.

South Carolina cities are doing a lot to spur economic activity. Mike Switzer interviews Alan Cooper, founder and editor of three online business news websites in South Carolina: MidlandsBiz, UpstateBizSC, and LowCountryBizSC.

It was in the 1830's and 40's that a German flutist and flute maker named Theobald Boehm revolutionized flute playing.