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Conservation - Birds
6:00 pm
Tue October 4, 2011

New Audubon Center north of St. Louis will facilitate bird viewing along Mississippi River

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The American white pelican is one of several large birds that use the Mississippi Flyway as a migration route.
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The new Audubon Center at the Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary in West Alton.
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The Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary is opening a new information center overlooking the Mississippi River in West Alton.

Riverlands program manager Charlie Deutsch of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the 3,700-acre sanctuary attracts tens of thousands of migratory birds every year.

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Listeria / cantaloupe
4:45 pm
Thu September 29, 2011

2 more illnesses reported in Mo. from cantaloupe

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Missouri health officials say the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed two more illnesses in Missouri that are linked to tainted cantaloupe.

The state Department of Health and Senior Services said Thursday that Missouri now has had three cases of listeria that are tied to contaminated fruit grown on a farm in Colorado.

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ART - SCIENCE
6:30 am
Thu September 29, 2011

UMSL exhibition explores the nexus of art and science

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Artist Brigham Dimick with part of “Waxworks 2,” a series of three self-portraits that include observation hives with live honeybees.
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“Waxwork 2: Observation Hive #2,” 2007. A jar with sugar water at the bottom left provides food for the bees.
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Close-up of Waxwork 2. Dimick exchanges the live bees for new ones every week, so that no individual bee is on display for more than a few days at a time.
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Artist Greg Edmondson with a number of his graphite drawings, collectively titled “Simple.”
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Close-up of an Edmondson drawing. Edmondson says he wants to make it difficult for the viewer to choose a focal point in his work.
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A sculptural piece by Edmondson, entitled “Empty Gesture,” 2009. Pencil, vellum, tape, and staples.
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Ronald Leax with works in his “The History of Culture Series,” 2011, which is an homage to great microbiologists from the 17th century to the present day.
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Close-up of Leax’s work entitled “Robert Koch, 1843-1910, “One Microbe, One Disease.” The petri dishes contain dyed agar and penicillin molds that were once alive.
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This sculptural work by Leax includes a sheep's brain contained in a laboratory flask.
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There’s an unusual art exhibition going on right now on the campus of the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

The exhibition showcases three artists from the St. Louis region whose work blurs the lines between art and science.

St. Louis Public Radio’s Véronique LaCapra talked with the artists and the show’s curator, and produced this sound portrait of the exhibition.

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Alzheimer's Disease
5:30 am
Mon September 26, 2011

Changes in marker for Alzheimer's linked to sleep cycle

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Micrograph of amyloid beta plaques in the brain, as may be seen in Alzheimer disease.
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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have shown a relationship between daily sleep patterns and a protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

The researchers found that levels of the beta amyloid protein in spinal fluid increased during waking hours and decreased during sleep.

Wash U neurologist Randall Bateman says that pattern was strongest in young, healthy test subjects. It lessened in people over sixty, and disappeared altogether in Alzheimer’s patients.

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