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A new study suggests there could be a connection between kids’ behavior and their gut bacteria, otherwise known as their microbiome. Scientists at Oregon State University and the University of Oregon worked on the study, which examined the microbiomes of 40 children between the ages of 5 and 7. We hear from Jessica Flannery, a clinical psychology doctoral candidate at the University of Oregon, and Keaton Stagaman, a research associate in the microbiology department at OSU.
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My Voice Music provides music lessons and recording opportunities to kids who would otherwise have none. MVM founder Ian Mouser just been awarded a half-million-dollar Lewis prize to expand his work. We talk with him and Rayawnie Paris, an emerging hip hop artist who walked into an MVM program at 17, and at 21 is one of the program’s teachers.
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