African-American quilts often had secret symbols, understood by the black community, incorporated into their designs, says Beth Mentzer, an MSU adjunct instructor in the English department. Mentzer uses quilts as a theme for her composition classes, asking students to write an essay on the similarity between quilting and writing, for example. Astronomy Live Space exploration once again made international news. The next show is scheduled for Tuesday, March 6, at 9 a.m. on KMMS-AM in Bozeman. In addition to current events in space exploration, Murray and host George Carter also talk about the International Space Station and backyard astronomy topics like the northern lights and meteor shows.
Listeners can call in with questions.
At home in cats Emptying a litter box can be dangerous for pregnant women. That's because cats can carry a parasite called Toxoplasma gondii and never seem sick. If a woman empties the litter box of an infected cat, the parasite could enter her body and then the baby's. Kvaal, a postdoctoral fellow at MSU, says the parasite requires a host so it's hard to study in the lab. But yeast is easy to culture and readily available.