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UnDisciplined: Science News Roundup - May 2019

This week on UnDisciplined, we're talking about artificial intelligence, great white sharks, illegal pollution, snail genes, and new rules for leaders at the National Institutes of Health. That's right, it's the May Science News Roundup. 

This month, we're joined by Sheena McFarland, the director of marketing and communication for the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. What is a business school executive doing on a science news show? Well, Sheena is also one of the most ardent science enthusiats we know, with a degree in biology teaching and an insatiable interest in astronomy. 

With us for the second time on the roundup, and the third time as a guest on the program, is Joseph Wilson, an evolutionary ecologist from Utah State University. He's the author of "The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide to North American Bees." He first joined us on the show to talk about his research in December 2018

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.