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Lao and Proud: Chef inspires others to embrace their heritage and history through food

With future at risk, Taiwan prepares citizens to resist potential Chinese invasion

How social media lures migrants into undertaking treacherous journeys

In lieu of Gulf Coast Life Arts Edition today we’re featuring an episode of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories. The show uses the way songs connect us to our memories and our lives as a means to get to know our guests in a more intimate way. We're listening back to episode 83 featuring Fabiana Solano. She’s a native of Venezuela, an FGCU graduate and a photographer. This episode originally dropped in October of 2019, but since that time, Solano has earned a Master of Public Administration degree from Florida Gulf Coast University with a concentration in Environmental Policy and Planning, and she’s now working as a planner for the city of Punta Gorda.

Scientists are turning cockroaches into robots—and you can, too.

Jenny Tavery Bechtold has been with WGCU since June 2011. She began as a summer intern, and continued working with the station as a volunteer reporter. Jenny covered general news in Southwest Florida, helped produce Gulf Coast Live and is now producing the radio portion of the multi-platform project Makers. She grew up in Southwest Florida and particularly enjoys covering stories about science and technology. She graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University in spring 2012 with a B.A. in communication and a minor in journalism.

The heat index, also known as the apparent temperature, is what the temperature feels like to the human body when relative humidity is combined with the air temperature. There is direct relationship between the air temperature and relative humidity and the heat index, meaning as the air temperature and relative humidity increase (decrease), the heat index increases (decreases).

In this episode of Grape Minds, we're talking about Sagittarius and its relationship with a certain grape that mimics the fire sign's fearless, fun, and…

The growth of Downtown Ft. Myers

What will be looked at when historians sift through the rubble of our times.