Love Bugs (Originally aired: May 2, 2017)

Love Bugs (Originally aired: May 2, 2017)

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 759 , Segment 6

Episode: US Welfare Programs, Vitiligo Treatment, America's Failing Infrastructure

  • Mar 2, 2018
  • 22:37 mins

Guests: Lois O'Brien, PhD, and Charlie O’Brien, PhD, Entomologists Most people try to keep bugs out of their house. But Charlie and Lois O’Brien added extra rooms onto their Arizona home in order to accommodate the bugs they’ve dedicated collected over 60 years. The O’Briens are leading entomologists – Charlie is an expert in weevils and Lois in planthoppers. Between them they’ve collected more than one and a quarter million insects– many of them rare specimens. They donated the entire collection to Arizona State University last year.

Other Segments

New Vitiligo Treatment

13m

Guest: Brett King, PhD, MD, Associate Professor of Dermatology, Yale University Pop star Michael Jackson was a source of fascination throughout the ‘80s for his eye-popping dance moves, but also because his skin transformed from black to white over that decade. He was accused of bleaching his skin and wanting to be white. In fact, his autopsy confirmed that he suffered from vitiligo, an auto-immune disease that destroys the pigments in skin, leaving random pale patches that spread over time. There are treatments for the disease, but not everyone responds to them, so when Yale dermatologist Brett King was presented with two really stubborn cases, he decided to try out a new course of treatment which could change the way vitiligo is treated in the future.

Guest: Brett King, PhD, MD, Associate Professor of Dermatology, Yale University Pop star Michael Jackson was a source of fascination throughout the ‘80s for his eye-popping dance moves, but also because his skin transformed from black to white over that decade. He was accused of bleaching his skin and wanting to be white. In fact, his autopsy confirmed that he suffered from vitiligo, an auto-immune disease that destroys the pigments in skin, leaving random pale patches that spread over time. There are treatments for the disease, but not everyone responds to them, so when Yale dermatologist Brett King was presented with two really stubborn cases, he decided to try out a new course of treatment which could change the way vitiligo is treated in the future.

Workplace Myths (Originally aired: Dec. 5, 2017)

10m

Guest: Jacob Rawlins, PhD, Assistant Professor, Linguistics and English Language, Brigham Young University It seems a bit silly when a restaurant or retail store has the staff insist on calling everyone a guest, rather than a customer. Or they have some special name for their coworkers – teammates, associates. Or they add some little rhetorical flourish when they answer the phone like the receptionist at my dentist’s office who always says, “This is so-and-so. I can help you.” Not how can I help you? Just the confident “I CAN help you.” These touches seem like gimmicks, but BYU linguistics professor Jacob Rawlins says they come from the stories companies weave about themselves and why they matter. These stories are powerful tools.

Guest: Jacob Rawlins, PhD, Assistant Professor, Linguistics and English Language, Brigham Young University It seems a bit silly when a restaurant or retail store has the staff insist on calling everyone a guest, rather than a customer. Or they have some special name for their coworkers – teammates, associates. Or they add some little rhetorical flourish when they answer the phone like the receptionist at my dentist’s office who always says, “This is so-and-so. I can help you.” Not how can I help you? Just the confident “I CAN help you.” These touches seem like gimmicks, but BYU linguistics professor Jacob Rawlins says they come from the stories companies weave about themselves and why they matter. These stories are powerful tools.