Tick App, Drone Racing, Teenage Space Reporter

Changes to the Endangered Species Act Guest: Robert Keiter, Director and Professor, Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment, University of Utah, SJ Quinney College of Law Environmental groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club and Humane Society, filed a lawsuit this week against major changes the Trump Administration is making to the Endangered Species Act. Ever since the Act became law in 1973, it’s been the subject of lawsuits and heated political debate –all the while both sides contend they are committed to “conserving and recovering species.” Tracking Ticks Across the Country Guest: Jean Tsao, Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Michigan State University Globally, mosquitoes area major killer. But in the United States, ticks are the bigger problem. They’re to blame for the vast majority of insect-borne illnesses reported every year –Lyme Disease being chief among them. And the really bad news is that in the last decade, ticks have been on the move –their populations growing and expanding into new areas that never used to have a tick problem. America’s Newest Sport Is High-Speed Drone Racing, and Yes, It Is as Cool as It Sounds Guest: Nicholas Horbaczewski, Founder and CEO, The Drone Racing League When the drone racing competition live-streamed on Twitter a few weeks ago people who stumbled on it lost their minds. It looks like a video game: Little drones lit in fluorescent colors zooming through dark hallways at 90 miles per hour, squeezing through gates, trying to not to crash. And there’s play-by-play from excited commentators. But it’s not a video game. It’s happening live in a dark stadium. A bunch of guys with gamer nicknames are controlling the drones from cockpits wearing virtual reality goggles. The Drone Racing League is suddenly a huge phenomenon. Six million people watched that three-and-a-half-hour broadcast on Twitter, plus it was also on NBC.  Reporting on the Moon Launch as Teenag