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Miles Hoffman continues his musings about the history of the overture.

The rusty blackbird (Euphagus carolinus) is a medium-sized New World blackbird, closely related to grackles ("rusty grackle" is an older name for the species). It is a bird that prefers wet forested areas, breeding in the boreal forest and muskeg across northern Canada, and migrating southeast to the United States during winter.

Some listener report seeing a joro spider in Abbeville County.

The timber rattlesnake, canebrake rattlesnake, or banded rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) is a species of pit viper endemic to eastern North America. Like all other pit vipers, it is venomous, and this species is sometimes highly venomous. This is the only rattlesnake species in most of the populous Northeastern United States and is second only to its relatives to the west, the prairie rattlesnake, as the most northerly distributed venomous snake in North America.

We are all part of the natural world.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Rebecca Wineland about getting the flu vaccine and Covid-19 vaccine during pregnancy. Dr. Wineland is an Assistant Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and an obstetrician who specializes in treating high-risk pregnancies at MUSC.

A wind instrument is any instrument whose sound is produced by a column of air vibrating inside some sort of tube, or pipe. But I’d like to clear up a common misconception: Wind players aren’t blowing away to try to fill up their instruments with air —the air inside a wind instrument is already there.

Miles Hoffman concludes this week's discussion about popular overtures.

Miles Hoffman discusses where the word "Overture" comes from and the earliest iteration of the overture.

The Gulf Coast spiny softshell turtle (Apalone spinifera aspera), a subspecies in the Trionychidae family of softshell turtles, is endemic to the south-eastern United States. These turtles are found along the Gulf of Mexico from North Carolina to Mississippi. They live in temperate climates in freshwater biomes.