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This turtle is a sub species of the yellow-bellied slider.

In the letters of great composers, certain themes come up again and again, especially the composers’ struggles to get their works performed, and the desire to have those works understood and appreciated.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Jennifer Dahne about developing a smartphone app to help teens quit vaping. Dr. Dahne is an Associate Professor in the Addiction Sciences Division of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and she’s a research member of Hollings Cancer Center at MUSC.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Lacey MenkinSmith about the MUSC Global Emergency Medicine Program efforts during the pandemic. Dr. MenkinSmith is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship at MUSC.

In the south, a fungal disease ruins its timber value, but to support wildlife, this tree should be tops on your list.

The wood that comes from our native black cherry tree, Prunus serotina, is the most prized in the forestry/timber industry. The wood has the beautiful deep red color valued by furniture makers, is strong, and is easy to work.

Our native black cherry, Prunus serotina, is usually defaced this time of year by a large web of silk that houses several hundred leaf-eating Eastern tent caterpillars.

A Fulbe from the Senegambia region of East Africa, Omar Ibn Said was taken into slavery in the late eighteenth century and forced across the Atlantic to the Americas. Records of his life indicate that he lived in North and South Carolina. He left behind an autobiography, written in Arabic.

A native of Charleston, Charles “Pug” Ravenel was a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Business School. In 1974 he won the Democratic Party’s nomination for governor. However, the state Supreme Court ruled that he did not meet South Carolina’s residency requirements and he was off the ballot.

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur whose insights are published online at Medium under the title “Control Your Destiny”. He is based in Greenville, S.C.