Women’s tackle football, Phone security in public, Language and the brain

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Two members of a Wisconsin women’s tackle football team tell us more about their league and the upcoming start of their season. Then, a tech security expert warns us about concerns with public phone charging stations. Later, an author shares her new book looking how the different forms of languages we understand affect our brains.

Featured in this Show

  • Women's Football Alliance kicks off new season

    The Women’s Football Alliance begins their season on April 22nd. We speak with a coach and a player from the Wisconsin-based Midwest Mountain Lions about women’s increased involvement in tackle football from the Women’s Football Alliance to the National Football League.

  • FBI: Don't use public charging stations

    The FBI has warned against using public charging stations, saying that hackers have figured out how to introduce malware to devices through public charging ports. A tech security expert explains.

  • How languages of all sorts unlock our brain's potential

    Even if you haven’t learned a second traditional language, you are probably still fluent in more than one type of communication. We talk with a language expert about how math, poetry, and other ways of thinking unleash the brain in the same way as learning a language in school.

Episode Credits

  • Rob Ferrett Host
  • Sarah Hopefl Technical Director
  • Lee Rayburn Producer
  • Colleen Leahy Producer
  • Mary Ellen Six Guest
  • Snoopy Shuster Guest
  • Dorothea Salo Guest
  • Viorica Marian Guest

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