>> Ted: Coming up next on Arizona horizon, how researchers are solving geologic mysteries on the moon.

Good evening and welcome to "Arizona horizon."

Former President Trump today invoked his fifth amendment rights during a deposition involving a civil investigation into the trump's business practices and trump declined to answer questions and trump's office later released a statement saying the former president invoked rights and privileges Forded forwarded to every citizen.

>> If I had five people taking the fifth amendment like you see on the mob, you see the mob takes the fifth and if you're innocent, why are you taking the fifth amendment?

>> Ted: He believes he's target The by lawyers, prosecutors and the media, which left him, quote, no choice.

Encouraging economic news, inflation took a dip with airfares leading the way and it was up 5% and down from 9.1% and today's slowdown and overall inflation follows a strong job's report, both are positive signs according to President Biden.

>> We're seeing a stronger labor market where jobs are booming are Americas are working and some signs that inflation are moderate and that's what happens hen you build an economy from the bottom up and middle out.

>> Ted: The underlying details including pricing of less volatile goods and services indicate that inflation is still unusually hot.

>>> A new NASA Mission looking to solve a mystery, particularly geodomes and what are the domes made of and how are they formed?

We're joined by a king member, Dr. Hargrove.

When we talked, there was a new Mission and maybe we'll get a chance to talk about that and what's going on with these domes?

>> It's somewhat of a mystery and we want to check them out.

If you're familiar with the history of the moon, forming a big impact with the earth, all rocks cooled and changing composition and you see light rocks and dark rocks.

In the dark rocks, there's a unique composition from what we would expect to see in those areas and so, we want to send a Mission to understand what they're made of and what the structures are like and how the rocks feel to try to unravel how they formed and what was going on eight billion years ago.

>> Ted: The thing how they were formed, this is the moon and playtechtonics and water, that can't be the case.

>> There was a magma oh ocean and there was a big magma ocean on the moon and yeah no substantial water that's going onto change the rocks in any way that we would expect to see on earth forming similar type features and we have to explain this for how we get these types of mountains and these are mountains that are just high as Mt.

St. Helens.

>> Ted: Here comes NASA and ASU with this spectrometer and what is this all about?

>> The last time I talked about a Mission orbiting the moon with a gama ray and we're looking for water at the poles of the moon and it can detect g arcama rays with the element to the surface and if you drive around on these domes, you detect the key elements that will tell us whether or not the domes formed by one means or another.

If we see enrichments like thorium, we will eliminate the hypothesis of how they formed?

There will be a lander and our instrument, the Gama ray is known to the rover and about a ten-day Mission and driving from the landing site to the edges of these domes and maybe we'll drive on top of them a little bit.

And yeah, as we drive around, we'll be making measurements of the composition.

>> Ted: The measurements and how do you get that from what's happening on the moon back here to earth?

I guess it's coming back to ASU, true?

>> The data here and all of the data from the science instrument.

The data are produced by cosmic rays hitting every planetary object in the solar system and we're lucky we have a fake atmosphere on earth and we don't have to worry about them too much.

So they generate neutrons in the top meter or so of the lunar surface and they knock around with the atoms that make up the rocks and soils and generate gama rays and all things are leaking out of the surface of the moon at some constant rate.

And we see more characteristic Gama rays for thorium.

We have a similar detector and we drive around mars and we see changes from one drive to the next and interesting.

>> Ted: How long before will the rover be up there collecting samples?

>> We make a measurement at each site and we will have an infrared spec spectrometer of the minerallology and we won't be collecting them to bring back to earth and this is characterizing them for a future Mission.

>> Ted: Catch and release, if you will.

How deep will you go?

Sensitive to a meter and the other instruments are really just the top micron or so.

>> Ted: You mentioned going around -- you can only go so high, if they're as high as Mt.

St. Helen and that teaches you, as well.

>> We know this from the rock camera operated here as ASU and we can see that there are parts of these pound continues that lookmountains that havefallen down into the plains and our hope is based on where we'll land, we drive up to the large boulders and study those.

>> Ted: Why do we need to know about about a couple of big mountains and why is this important?

>> It's a Mission, primarily, of exploration and we want to know about the solar system to understand our place in it and how it was evolving over the last four three and a half billion years and we just want to understand the process the moon were undergoing in the last three and a half billion years.

We want to reconstruct the geologic history.

The more we understand on the moon, the more in the innersolar system.

There's hope that these unique features would harbor enrichments of elements that might be useful for future understanding researchers, to upset the processes going on.

But to have mineable resource on these features.

We don't know that and we won't ever know if we won't explore.

It's going to find out more about the moon.

We haven't sent that many landed Missions to the moon.

So every time we go, we learn something new.

>> Ted: As a last point, in terms of science, it allows theories to be tested and that's science right there.

>> Behind this magma high hypothesis, we have a magma ocean, it cooled and mystery features to explore to fill in pieces of the story.

>> Ted: What's your theory?

>> I really hope we find out something -- I mean, so it's not playtechtonics, but theories about balsaltic pools and those would be interesting places to explore and if that's happening on one place, it's happening elsewhere and it will turn the man into a rich geologic story than the one we know.

>> Ted: You guys are busy in all sorts of ways and especially with the moon and a spectrometer and especially from the school of earth and space exploration and good luck with this and I'm curious myself as to what they're all about.

>> You bet.

>> Ted: Up next, next, a local group providing clothing for the poor.

Nourish Phoenix provides food and clothing for the local poor and they're creating healthy meals from the food's boxes and to tell us more is the is executive director of nourish phoenix and chef Jeff Crouse from victim pee.

Tempe.

Both, give me a better definition and what a nourish phoenix?

>> We have educational and employment opportunities, also, for folks and anybody an come to us for services, anybody in the community.

>> Ted: Working poor is an emphasis?

>> Most are lower income and one in six are living in poverty.

So we're seeing a lot of people right now just struggling with food insecurity and needing additional assistance in the community.

>> Ted: Food boxes are a part of the operation here?

>> We, we have a food pantry, a clothing closet and resources like hygiene and diapers and also the working workforce program and services where people can find jobs or better paying jobs.

>> Ted: As far as the food boxes are concerned, there's a series involving local chefs called "think inside the box."

And how did you get involved?

>> Mutual friends and create bar has been involved for a long time and we've been a big part of the community and they asked me to help and count me in, I'm in.

>> Ted: How does this work?

Do you gettenings from a normal food box and up to you to make it different?

What works here?

>> To get other chefs involved and to nourish in the community and the idea with these food boxes are typically, they're not full of nutritional ingredients or items.

It has everything you need to have, you know, a nutritional meal.

>> Ted: It's up to you to make it nutritious.

>> I want to give these meals to have fun with it and make it easy and fun so the families can cook in it and inspiring these chefs to be a part of it.

>> Ted: The name "nourish phoenix" indicates this is healthy food and you provide recipes, too, is that true?

>> Rerecipes and we have a lot of partners we work with and the university of Arizona cooperative extension and they provide us with recipes.

We have fresh food and then let's have chefs make fresh food out of a food box.

>> Ted: I feel like I'm watching the food network.

How do you make it interesting in.

>> I'm?

>> The people who get these box, they probably don't have fancy equipment.

It's contract like chop and how can I make a dish using one pot?

And how can it be easy to clean and easy to make?

And I go from, you know, proteins to starch to vegetables and just make it a one-pot meal.

>> Ted: How many chefs are involved?

>> We have four, the hidden house and the Delta and all of the chefs are involved so far.

And we're probably looking at more, but we also wanted to support local and so, our local restaurants really were hurting during the pandemic and we wanted to highlight these great chefs.

There's so much talent and Jeff can look at any food and make anything out of a food box.

So it's inspiring and it's just about helping the community and helping each other out.

>> Ted: You mentioned supporting local.

Does the food come from local places?

Some of it does and some doesn't.

There's grocery rescue and we're partner with St. Mary's restaurant and we order fresh produce and milk and dairy and a lot of what you see in our boxes, a lot of it is local.

>> Ted: Yeah.

And talk to us about the challenge involved here and just the feeling that you're helping folks.

It's one thing to do it and another thing to do it and helping people.

>> It makes it easy and fun and keeping in mind they don't have a lot of pots and pans to work with and just a matter of talking everything in the boxes and looking at it and making more than just one meal and easy and fun for these families to get in it and just do it.

>> Ted: Have you provided more than one recipe and more than one meal?

>> That's the biggest challenge, right?

>> Ted: The same stuff over and over.

>> These boxes are full and meant to feed a family for three, four, five days and with time being a thought process for me, how can we make one dish to last two or three days for them to make breakfast, lunch and again, make more than one meal.

>> I'm laughing because Jeff made four or five recipes out of one food box.

>> Ted: Holy smokes!

>> And made a recipe out of Toasties cere arcal.

And made a toasties doughnut.

>> Ted: Let's talk about the inflation and are you seeing more folks?

>> A lot more folks and in the last six to eight week, people are struggling and housing prices have affected a lot more families.

Families are paying double and triple and asked to move out and find a new place because the rents are raised.

That's a major issue we see happening.

With all of the other inflation prices and gas prices going up and hopefully coming down and that all factors into living paycheck to paycheck.

>> Ted: Restaurant business, you holding up.

>> We're blessed, yeah.

The community supports us and we're part of a bigger wheel and I feel blessed.

>> Ted: Where can people find out more?

>> Nourishphx.org and you can find everything there.

>> Ted: Congratulations on this and the best of luck and congratulations on making four meals out of the same old thing and that's something and good to have you both here.

>> Thank you.

>> This is accessible to thousands in Arizona and each year through field trips, K through 12 through title one schools and here with act one is the director of art's education, Dr. Meth Beth Maloni.

>> We operate state-wide and our Mission is access to the arts for Arizona students.

>> Ted: That's a Mission because that's needed right now.

Is it less than it was in the past?

>> I believe it was.

Our data shows art's education goes up and down and we know there's a teaching crisis in Arizona and that affects our art's educators and there's always not money for field trips and that's where that's where we come in.

>> Ted: Where do you go and who goes and what is seen and heard?

>> We have open registration for title one teachers on August 29th and our season this year is full of amazing museum tours and ballet opportunities, everything that you could name that kids will want to see and teachers can take it for free.

We cover busing, the cost of tickets and additional resources and materials and all teachers have to cover is $1 per person.

Let's say ballet and do people at the ballet, do they explain or do you watch a rehearsal or performance?

>> We definitely have relationships with our art's partners where they give our students just a little bit extra than just a regular performance.

They might have the director come out and talk or the actors do a Q & A and it's fascinating what our art's people will watch.

>> Ted: The kids are probably mesmerized.

>> We had kids come in to see the nutcracker this past year and kids had not been on a field trip because of the pandemic and their eyes coming into symphony hall as round as saucers and they were so happy and didn't need the school buses.

>> Ted: Kids from well-to-do families may be more exposed to the arts and have mom and dad watching and some of the kids may never have experienced this sort of thing.

>> We find this is a child's first experience with one of our art's and culture partners and the beauty is that research shows when students are exposed to the arts in early childhood, especially, that carries with them through the rest of their life, which has benefits for education and for our economic community, as well.

>> Ted: Talk more about the benefits of art's education, because we've talked about that on the show before and a team-building, self-esteem, creativity and all things are developed.

>> Oh, yeah, critical thinking, empa think,empathy and social, emotional with exposure to the arts and it's all good.

>> Ted: What has happened in education that maybe the arts are not as emphasized as in the past, especially for the little kids?

Is it because we're so fascinated?

>> We do a lot esteem arts, which I would love to talk about.

But in art education today, we put a lot of emphasis on what is tested and the arts are not necessarily tested, but we combat that with the Arizona art's proficiency field and there are a lot of ways that educators in Arizona are overcoming the hurdles to make sure students get good quality art's education.

>> Ted: You're holding a virtual reality thing and I thought you would put that on because you're bored with the interview.

[ Laughter ] >> This is our newest program and we learned over the pandemic that we did a great job of taking kids ob on fields trips if they live 75 around phoenix and Tucson and that's how far they can go during a school day.

But what about all of the kids that exist outside of those two bubbles and how can we bring the arts to those students?

That's hue how the virtual reality was born.

We take that all across Arizona, 100% free to title one schools we give the students and teacher an hour-long art's experience on our virtual reality.

>> Ted: Wow!

>> So fun.

>> Ted: Are they dancing with the dancers.

>> The third dance is mariachi and you would not believe the children's reaction.

It's not just the students but the teachers and we started offering this to community partners, senior living facilities and the art doesn't have a limit on who can use it and neither does art agency and's education.

We decided to take it to the community to see what would happen and the experience that everyone has had has been universally acclaimed and they love it and everyone is dancing.

>> Ted: Last point before we go and 30 seconds left, art's funding, education funding for the arts.

It needed to be better, huh?

>> That's been my platform for many years now and we're moving in the right direction, I think, but art's education is so critical and that's why it came about.

So come visit us at act 1AZ and you can learn more.

>> Ted: Good to have you.

Thank you so much for joining us and you have a great evening.