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The palmetto weevil (Rhynchophorus cruentatus) is an insect native to Florida, but has been found as far as southern Texas to the west and South Carolina to the north. It is the largest weevil in North America and the only kind of palm weevil in the continental United States. It infests palms and is considered a pest.

Liriodendron is a genus of two species of characteristically large trees, deciduous over most of their populations, in the magnolia family (Magnoliaceae). These trees are widely known by the common name tulip tree or tuliptree for their large flowers superficially resembling tulips. It is sometimes referred to as tulip poplar or yellow poplar, and the wood simply as "poplar", although not closely related to the true poplars. Other common names include canoewood, saddle-leaf tree, and white wood.

The sea pansy, Renilla reniformis, is a species of colonial cnidarian in the family Renillidae, part of an octocoral subclass of Anthozoa that inhabit an expansive range of environments. It is native to warm continental shelf waters of the Western Hemisphere. It is frequently found washed ashore on North East Florida beaches following northeasterly winds or rough surf conditions. It also can often be found living intertidally completely buried in the sand. Its predator is the striped sea slug, Armina tigrina.

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Walter Pater was an influential 19thcentury English author and critic, and in 1870 he wrote a fascinating essay about the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli.

In his new book, Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution (2021, Simon and Schuster), Dr. Woody Holton gives a sweeping reassessment of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters.Using more than a thousand eyewitness accounts, Holton explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose passion for freedom often brought them into conflict with the Founding Fathers.Woody Holton joins Walter Edgar to talk about this “hidden history.”

It was Beethoven who liberated the timpani from the trumpets, expanding their role and the range of notes they played, and even writing solo passages for them.

The homebuilding boom continues across the nation and in our state, with existing home inventory levels remaining very low and demand very high. When will it end? Hopefully never, says our next guest. Mike Switzer interviews Allen Hutto, CEO of the Building Industry Association of Central SC in Columbia, SC. Disclaimer: The Building Industry Association of Central SC has a business relationship with Voterheads.com, a wholly-owned company of Magnolia Media, Inc., the producer of this program.

Since 2005, Michelin has been sponsoring Innovision’s Young Innovator Award which recognizes successful South Carolina educational programs that encourage young people to engage in science, technology, engineering, math, and innovation. Our next guest’s student team in Columbia won the most recent award for developing a COVID-19 contact tracer, which also won them $65,000 as a national finalist in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow competition. Mike Switzer interviews Kirsten Bullington, Next Energy Engineering instructor at the Richland Two Institute of Innovation in Columbia, SC.

It should come as no surprise that one of the hottest growth areas in technology is cybersecurity. And it’s getting some strong support from tech organizations in our state who are working toward making it one of our high-growth industries. Mike Switzer interviews Warren Parker, the chair at South Coast Cyber Center in Beaufort, SC.