SQ Radio started in 2009. Our first show was launched at Utah Public Radio and featured Elon Musk and his aerospace achievements and goals. Covering climate change research, wildlife studies, medicine, genetics, rocketry, social justice and education have always been our priorities at SQ.
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Temple Grandin Talks Covid-19
Temple Grandin discusses research and what happened in the meat packing facilities and food supply chain. She offers solutions to some of the major infrastructure problems caused by the pandemic with her famous way of visual thinking.
Photo Courtesy of Rosalie Winard
Turtles On The Brink Of Extinction - Their Fate Is In Our Hands
A team of 51 scientists have sounded a an alarm. They've announced the eminent extinction of many of the world's turtles in the Journal Current Biology, June 22, 2020. Craig Stanford, lead author of the study talks about the major culprits leading to testudines demise and what we can do to help save them.
A couple of websites where you can learn more about Dr. Grandin and her research
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The October Revolution In Lebanon - A Former Druze Commander's Perspective
25th Sundance Film Festival Anniversary
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25th Sundance Film Festival Anniversary
Paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson and SuziQ
Vanishing Ice
Lonnie Thompson is a climate science pioneer. He has led dangerous high altitude expeditions across the world to drill ice core samples from glaciers and ice sheets. He and his colleagues have collected more than 4 miles of ice samples that span thousands of years. They are stored at Ohio State University, where Thompson is a Distinguished Professor in Earth Sciences. Find out how this environmental hero used sheer determination, muscle, mules, and low tech equipment to preserve the earth's frozen history.
The Indomitable Coyote
Tracking the coyote from the rangeland to the streets of Chicago to the parched desert takes us on a thorny trail filled with political, ethical and environmental strife that ultimately, forces us to confront the human struggle for power over nature.
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In The Shadow Of Corrupción
The Aché of eastern Paraguay thrived as hunter gatherers in the Atlantic rainforest until Paraguayans and other outsiders invaded their ancestral homelands and forced them to live a western lifestyle. They fought back. This is Part I of their story to hold on to their rights.
The World According To Temple Grandin
Sheri sits down with Ms. Grandin at her home in Fort Collins, Colorado with Grandin's close friend, artist Rosalie Winard. Ms. Grandin explains how she thinks in pictures. That unique ability is how she has changed the beef industry and the way we look autism. Listen to this deeply personal profile of Temple Grandin.
Hydrofracking 101
SQ goes on the road through Ohio and into Bethany, West Virginia and talks to locals to document the effects of the boom in hydraulic fracking, known best as fracking, burrowing into shale for hard to reach pockets of natural gas. Let’s just say our eyebrows were raised.
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Einstein's Dreams
This is a whimsical and thoughtful audio journey through the mind of Alan Lightman and musician Randall Williams. Lightman is the author of Einstein's Dreams. He is a poet, theoretical physicist, and novelist. His genre is known as magical realism. Williams wrote songs based on the book and performed them with students across the U.S.
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Matters Of The Heart
The story of a man with pancreatic cancer as he goes through treatment with the latest technology, and high tech tools in the battle against heart disease.
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Better, Faster, Cheaper
We take you back into the history of SpaceX, when they were still developing the Falcon 9 rocket. We hear from Elon Musk and former NASA astronaut Ken Bowersox.
Epigenetics is a field of study that implies changes in the expression of an organism's DNA, instead of alteration of the genetic code itself. In Greek, "epi" literally means "on," over, or "near." In our genes, these are heritable changes that can switch on or off based on a variety of factors.
Moshe Szyfe talks to Sheri about the major ethical questions surrounding the study and use of epigenetics.