David Bassett: Obesity and the Built Environment in the US

Tennessee currently has the 4th highest rate of adult obesity in the US, at 30.2 percent... and the state has the 5th highest number of overweight young people, aged 10 to 17 years, at 36.5 percent.* The University of Tennessee's Obesity Research Center sponsored a workshop on Building Healthy Communities, focusing on how our built environment is related to these high rates of obesity and how future policy could help bring those levels down. Chrissy Keuper speaks with David Bassett, a professor of Exercise, Sport, and Leisure Studies and the co-director of UT's Obesity Research Center...

*July, 2009 Report from Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)

Attorney Hugh Ward: USA vs David Kernell

The case of the United States of America versus David Kernell is taking place this month in Knoxville. Kernell is accused of hacking into the personal email account of former Alaska governor and US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, while he was a student at the University of Tennessee. Chrissy Keuper speaks with attorney Hugh Ward. Ward is retired from the US Attorney's office in Knoxville and is now with the law firm of Bernstein, Stair, McAdams, LLP. We asked him to explain the charges against David Kernell and to give us a preview of the trial...

Seismologist Bob Hatcher on the Area's Recent Rockslides and Landslides

(Rockslide on Interstate 40, Haywood County, NC, October of 2009)

It seems there's been a rockslide or landslide in the news a lot lately... several here in East Tennessee and in Western North Carolina, including one just over the border in North Carolina that continues to block Interstate 40. We asked seismologist Bob Hatcher to help explain how these slides occur. Hatcher says that although there are often small earthquakes in our area, at magnitudes of three or less, they are not the cause of these slides...

April Dialogue: Healthy, Local Food Options

Chrissy Keuper speaks with Charlotte Tolley (Director of the Market Square Farmers' Market and board member on the Knoxville Knox County Food Council) and Ben Epperson (Program Manager of the Knox County Health Department's Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities initiative and former manager of Beardsley Community Farm) about the importance of healthy, local food options and how to find them...