Scott Hamilton Kennedy: Fighting Misinformation with Documentaries

Our guest this week is director, writer and producer Scott Hamilton Kennedy.  We met Scott at the 2019 NSTA conference in St. Louis where he hosted a screening of his recent documentary “Food Evolution” (2016). Narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, “Food Evolution” investigates GMOs to showcase how misinformation and fear can drown out rational evidence and divide communities. Scott joins […]

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STEM and Modern Agriculture

Valerie Bayes joins Lab Out Loud this week to talk about modern agriculture.  As the K-12 STEM Outreach Lead for Monsanto, Valerie is busy engaging educators in modern agriculture where cross-cutting concepts like engineering, math, and biology are used to solve important problems in our world today.  Through Monsanto’s STEM page, Valerie assists educators in finding powerful classroom resources and even helps teachers […]

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Episode 112: Science and Politics – GMOs in Hawaii

This week we welcome journalist Amy Harmon to Lab Out Loud.  Harmon recently wrote an article for the NY Times in which she examined a county council in Hawaii that wanted to ban genetically modified organisms.  Listen to the show as Harmon unravels the intersection of politics and science in this heated debate, and you will discover many resources that […]

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