With Good Reason

The 64th Little League World Series just wrapped up.  With almost 200,000 teams across the country, Little League is just as popular as ever.  A man in Farmville, Virginia has started a team specifically for children with mental and physical disabilities.  Thomas Pierce reports. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Archaeologists in Greece believe they’ve uncovered the ancient palace of Odysseus – the hero of Homer’s epic.  But a Classical Studies professor in Virginia says we don’t have to prove the epic was real for it to be relevant 3,000 years later.  Thomas Pierce reports. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Summer’s over and that means kids are gearing up for school again.  A cognitive scientist at the University of Virginia has a new book that aims to answer the age-old question that often pops up this time of year: why don’t some kids like being in class?  Thomas Pierce reports. [Audio clip: view full post [...]

With people taking their summer holidays, Virginia boasts 35 state parks to explore. But, sixty years ago, state parks were open to whites only.  A historian is researching the ways that African-Americans created their own natural recreation areas.  Lydia Wilson of the radio program “With Good Reason” has more. [Audio clip: view full post to [...]

Thousands of people from all over Appalachia were given free medical and dental care at this year’s Remote Area Medical event in Wise, Virginia.  But with more than three-hundred days until next year’s event, one of the organizers says something called telemedicine could help fill the void.  Thomas Pierce reports. [Audio clip: view full post [...]

Not all composers need an instrument to write music.  A Virginia woman uses her brain to generate sounds.  Sarah McConnell  reports on the woman who calls herself “the brainwave chick.” [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Scientists all over the world – including a group at Norfolk State University — are getting closer and closer to making objects truly invisible. And one man’s theories are at the center of it all.  Thomas Pierce reports. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

On July 14th, Iraq hits its deadline to form a new government. An Iraqi professor at James Madison University hopes that more attention will be paid to the country’s crumbling education system.  Thomas Pierce reports. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Walk down the refrigerated aisles of the grocery store and there’s an ample selection of wine and beer. But you’ll only find two or three varieties of hard cider produced by the national beverage companies. That’s not stopping one small family farm in Central Virginia from trying to reintroduce the drink to the American palate. [...]

Excessive-drinking isn’t exactly a new phenomenon on college campuses.  Mostly it’s a problem associated with college-age men – but the last decade has seen an increase in how much college women drink, too.  A faculty member at the college of William & Mary is studying the trend by talking to women in sororities.  Thomas Pierce [...]