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If you feel cramped or overwhelmed, you should visit the Congaree National Park right outside of Columbia. Of its 26,000 acres, the core protected area is fifteen thousand acres.

According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, our country could see a significant shortage of physicians over the next decade. Over the past decade, our next guest’s institution has been working hard to keep that from happening in our state. Mike Switzer interviews Marjorie Jenkins, dean of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Greenville, SC.

SCBizNews recently named our next guest’s healthcare staffing company not only one of the fastest growing for 2022 but also one of the best places to work in our state, as well. Mike Switzer interviews Natasha Lee, founder and CEO of Floyd Lee Locums in North Charleston, SC.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Christine Cooper about research suggesting that certain healthy lifestyle choices can help reduce risk of dementia. Dr. Cooper is an Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine and she’s a neurologist at MUSC.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Wendy Balliet about mindfulness, as a tool to help cancer survivors deal with stress or worry. Dr. Balliet is a psychologist who works with patients with chronic health problems, through the Division of Bio-behavioral Medicine at MUSC.

January 10, 2023 — We continue our preview of the 2023 state legislative session with excerpts from this year's S.C. Press Association legislative media workshop. Reporters heard from committee chairmen as well as state Senate Republican and Democratic caucus leaders on a range of topics ahead of this year's session, including abortion, education reform, and more.

January 7, 2022 — We recap some of the week's biggest news, including the South Carolina Supreme Court's decision to strike down the state's six-week abortion law, the release of Gov. Henry McMaster's executive budget, and much more.

I’m grateful for advances in neuroscience, and for many reasons glad that every day we know more about how the brain works. But for all the studies of left brains, right brains, and neuron networks, some things will remain mysteries, and there’s no way around it.

A word of advice today for non-musicians reading program notes in concert programs: If the program notes are heavy on technical analysis and are loaded with terms like modulation, inversion, augmentation, diatonic intervals, chromatic progression, modified sonata form, what have you… ignore them.

The strings of stringed instruments—violins, violas, cellos, basses, guitars, and harps—may be made of steel, nylon or other synthetics, or of gut. Often the steel, nylon, or gut serves as the core of the string, and around the core is a tight winding of very fine wire—wire of steel, aluminum, or silver.