Bioprospecting and cell phone bans

June 23, 2025 00:28:31
Bioprospecting and cell phone bans
The Best Of Our Knowledge
Bioprospecting and cell phone bans

Jun 23 2025 | 00:28:31

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Show Notes

The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education and research.

We’ll speak with one of a handful of winners of this year’s Dan David Prize. Hamilton College professor Mackenzie Cooley received the world’s largest history prize for her study of “bioprospecting.”

And we’ll speak with school administrators in New York about the state’s new ban on cell phones in schools.

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