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The scientists are back to answer your questions. Ray Graf hosts.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Senior Fellow for Health Policy at The Empire Center for Public Policy Bill Hammond, Former Vice President for Editorial Development at the New York Press Association Judy Patrick, and Associate Professor in the department of sociology at Vassar College Catherine Tan.

March is Women’s History Month and in celebration of that this month’s episode tells the story of the Brooklyn Equal Suffrage League, an organization of African American women who fought for their right to vote.

Tayari Jones’s fiction, including her previous novel, ‘An American Marriage,’ confronts the deepest questions of love, identity and belonging with a rare combination of lyrical grace and moral clarity. Her new novel, ‘Kin,’ is tale of two girls born in the segregated South and how they journey from home and back.

We welcome back Jeremy Hurst, the Game Management Section Head for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Also joining us is DEC research scientist Dave Kramer. Ray Graf hosts.

In the new book “Selected Letters of John Updike” editor James Schiff offers readers a window into that private world drawing from decades of correspondence. Schiff presents a portrait of Updike is both craftsman and confidante, generous, witty, and endlessly reflective about writing and life.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences at RPI Jim Hendler, Professor in the History Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) Allison Kavey, Former Times Union Associate Editor Mike Spain, and Investment Banker on Wall Street Mark Wittman.

Dr. Douglas Tumen of Hudson Valley Foot Associates joins us to take your foot health questions. Ray Graf hosts.

The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research. Cats make a lot of noises. And while an individual cat’s meows, growls and hisses might be unique, researchers say their purrs might be the most reliable way to tell them apart.And colorful feathers discovered in a coastal Peruvian cave clued researchers into an ancient parrot trade.

Measles has been in the news of late, along with the usual colds and flu that are with us all the time. There is never a bad time to check in with our favorite virologist, Dr. Eric Yager of the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Ray Graf hosts.