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“C” is for Carolina bays. Carolina bays are elliptical, shallow depressions found on unconsolidated sediments of the coastal plain region of eastern North America from Maryland to Florida.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Connie Guille about managing anxiety disorders during pregnancy. Dr. Guille is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and OBGYN, and the Director of the Women’s Reproductive Behavioral Health Division at MUSC.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Alec DeCastro about exercises to help maintain bone strength and density in the older adult years. Dr. DeCastro is an Associate Professor and Chief of Primary Care Sports Medicine in the Department of Family Medicine at MUSC.

Recent reports show that U.S. bank deposits have fallen for the first time since 2018. Our next guest says this indicates that the Federal Reserve's efforts to slow our economy are working. Mike Switzer interviews Bruce Yandle, Dean Emeritus at the College of Business & Behavioral Science and Alumni Professor of Economics Emeritus, both at Clemson University. He is also the Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center which publishes his Economic Situation Report.

Economic development in the middle of our state has traditionally lagged behind those of the coast and upstate. But our next guest’s organization is staying busy trying to change that perception. Mike Switzer interviews Nelson Lindsay, president and CEO of the Central/SC Alliance in Columbia, SC.

He may not be well know to the general public today, but, yet Philippe Gaubert was one of the most famous and important French musicians of the first half of the twentieth century.

Do you agree with the judgment that the two greatest composers of the late Baroque were Bach and Handel? Well, that means, unavoidably, that the rest of the late Baroque composers weren’t as good.

A while back I spent a minute offering a few suggestions of what to say after a concert when the concert was really pretty bad, but the performer is someone you know and you have to say something. In the unfortunate event that you’ve already used up your store of useful phrases, I thought I’d suggest a few more.

In the bad old days of symphony orchestras in this country, music directors were absolute dictators, and orchestra musicians had few protections. If a music director woke up in a bad mood and decided to fire an orchestra musician on the spot, he could… never mind that it might instantly deprive that musician of his livelihood.

Commonly known the tobacco hornworm and the goliath worm (as larvae), and as the Carolina sphinx moth and the tobacco hawk moth (as adults), the Manduca sexta is closely related to and often confused with the very similar tomato hornworm (Manduca quinquemaculata).