Parent Previews: In the Heart and the SeaTop of Mind with Julie Rose • Season 1, Episode 196, Segment 5
Dec 14, 2015 • 8m
Guest: Rod Gustafson, Film Reviewer at ParentPreviews.com  Time now for our weekly look at new movies: The real-life encounter of a whaling ship that encounters a whale of mammoth size – and sinks because of it. This is the maritime tragedy that inspired Herman Melville to write Moby Dick. It opened in theaters over the weekend.

Tech Tranfer: Better QuinoaDec 14, 201522mGuests: Rick Jellen, PhD, Professor in the Plant & Wildlife Sciences Department at BYU; Mike Alder, Director of BYU’s Technology Transfer Office The past couple of years, quinoa has been by popping up on the organic aisle at the grocery store and appearing on the menus for those hip soup and salad places that are so popular. It’s a grain, in case you were wondering. And now it’s become so mainstream that you can buy it in your Cheerios cereal.  A couple of researchers here at BYU are tinkering with quinoa’s DNA to see if they can make a better version – better for growing in certain places, not necessarily better tasting.  More information about technology developed at BYU is available at techtransfer.byu.edu.
Guests: Rick Jellen, PhD, Professor in the Plant & Wildlife Sciences Department at BYU; Mike Alder, Director of BYU’s Technology Transfer Office The past couple of years, quinoa has been by popping up on the organic aisle at the grocery store and appearing on the menus for those hip soup and salad places that are so popular. It’s a grain, in case you were wondering. And now it’s become so mainstream that you can buy it in your Cheerios cereal.  A couple of researchers here at BYU are tinkering with quinoa’s DNA to see if they can make a better version – better for growing in certain places, not necessarily better tasting.  More information about technology developed at BYU is available at techtransfer.byu.edu.