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UnDisciplined: March Science News Round-up

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This week on UnDisciplined, we're gathering the gang for another science news round-up. 

As we talk about some of the biggest stories in science over the past few weeks, we'll be joined by a biomedical researcher, a wildland ecologist and an experimental psychologist. 

This month, we'll talk about blowing up asteroids, dimming the sky to combat global warming,  and how birth order shapes personalities — or doesn't. 

Joining us from the University of Colorado is Rachael Kaspar, an evolutionary biologist and biomedical researcher. 

We also talked with Paul Rogers, a wildland ecologist at Utah State University, and Angie Fagerlin, an experimental psychologist at the University of Utah. 

Matthew LaPlante has reported on ritual infanticide in Northern Africa, insurgent warfare in the Middle East, the legacy of genocide in Southeast Asia, and gang violence in Central America. But a few years back, something occurred to him: Maybe the news doesn't have to be so brutally depressing all the time. These days, he balances his continuing work on more heartbreaking subjects with his work on UnDisciplined — Utah Public Radio's weekly program on science and discovery.