Catalan Independence, Genetics of Divorce, Voyager Spacecraft

Guest: Eric Jensen, JD, Professor of International Law, Brigham Young University

Guest: Jessica Salvatore, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Developmental Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University If your parents divorced, you are more likely to divorce as well. Social scientists have long thought that this was because children didn’t learn healthy skills from their parents and they later repeated problematic behaviors in their own marriages. But a new study out of Virginia Commonwealth University shows that the risk for divorce could be genetic, instead of environmental. In other words, it’s not that children of divorce learn behavior that could lead to divorce, it’s that they’re born with genetic tendencies that put them at greater risk of divorce. Nature trumps nurture in this case, according to the researchers.

Guest: Fran Bagenal, PhD, Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder The man-made object that has travelled farthest into space launched from Cape Canaveral on September 5, 1977. Voyager 1 and its companion craft Voyager 2 had a pretty straight forward initial mission – explore Jupiter and Saturn. They accomplished that within five years. And since then, it’s been a giant bonus bag of space insight. Remarkably, these two spacecraft are still communicating with Earth. Even though they’re 10 billion miles away and were built back when computers filled an entire room and phones were connected to actual wires.

Guests: Todd Leonard, Department Chair of the Culinary Arts Program at Utah Valley University; Madeline Black, Winner of the American Culinary Federation’s Student-Chef Competition Today we have a delicious truffle-scented duck roulade finished in duck fat, with Utah honey lacquered duck thigh-riblet, pan seared foie gras with port and morel mushroom sauce, accompanied by potatoes gratin, celery root and pea puree, with rhubarb chutney and a summer vegetable medley. It’s the plate that won a national cooking competition.

Guest: John Rosenberg, PhD, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Brigham Young University With the Spanish region of Catalonia so top of mind in the news, we wanted to take a closer look at the place – its history, culture and how it’s developed a regional identity strong enough to make many Catalans want to break from Spain to form their own nation.

Guest: Rachel Wadham, Host of BYUradio’s Worlds Awaiting What should we do about racism in older children's books? History is history, says Wadham. Use examples of bias to teach children to think critically.