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The Green - July 27, 2018

Listen to this week's edition of The Green or individual segments below:

Christiana Care opened the state’s first epilepsy monitoring unit at its campus in Christiana earlier this year.

And Delaware Public Media’s Nick Ciolino reports, it’s the only place in Delaware where doctors try to induce patients into having a seizure so they can make a diagnosis.

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Delaware Public Media's Nick Ciolino reports on Christiana Care's Epilepsy Monitoring Unit.

Delaware libraries have added a little hip-hop flavor to their efforts to keep kids reading over the summe

Our Sophia Schmidt sits down with the man behind the hip-hop literacy program being used at libraries  around the state as part of their Summer Library Challenge.

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Delaware Public Media's Sophia Schmidt interviews Bomani Armah about his hip-hop literacy program.

Delaware State University’s Dr. Christopher Heckscher has uncovered a correlation between the breeding and migration of one species of songbird and hurricane season severity.

Dr Heckscher’s findings indicate the length of the annual Veery breeding season, when they migrate to South America, as well as the number of eggs they produce, are predictors of hurricane season severity the following summer and fall.

Delaware Public Media’s Kelli Steele spoke to Dr. Heckscher about his study.

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Delaware Public Media's Kelli Steele interviews Delaware State Univ. professor Dr. Christopher Heckscher.

This week on The Green, we bring you the latest episode of A Matter of Facts  – featuring a conversation with  Dr. John Logsdon on space and space exploration.

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"A Matter of Facts" podcast - Episode 5 - a conversation with Dr. John Logsdon about news and information available on space and space exploration.

Tom Byrne has been a fixture covering news in Delaware for three decades. He joined Delaware Public Media in 2010 as our first news director and has guided the news team ever since. When he's not covering the news, he can be found reading history or pursuing his love of all things athletic.