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(Airs 03/10/22 @ 1p.m.) WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Dr. Mariana Figueiro Director of the Light and Health Research Center/Icahn School of Medicine.

When photographer Sylvia Plachy moved to New York in 1973, "The Village Voice" was at the center of downtown life, and her weekly photographs were at the center of the Voice, capturing not just how things looked but how they felt. Today? “Now I’m in my seventies, and I no longer have a community.” A conversation on art and aging.

On this week’s 51%, we speak with Gayatri Patel of the Women’s Refugee Commission about how the U.S. can better promote gender equality in its response to humanitarian crises. Also, Dr. Sharon Ufberg speaks with Karyn Gerson of Project Kesher about the organization’s efforts to support women impacted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Mars will come closer and closer as the year goes on. Venus’ extreme brilliance will be seen over most of the year, but it’s only now and the next two weeks that it hovers just above Mars. This week we’ll hear about our two nearest planetary neighbors, Mars and Venus, and why now is only time we’ll see them together.

For restauranteur Danny Meyer — Union Square Café, Shake Shack — hospitality is as important as food. “Hospitality exists when you feel like someone did something for you, not something to you.“ He’s not just talking about restaurants. Food as metaphor, food as food. Produced with the Municipal Art Society.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, April 2nd, 2022

(Airs 04/01/22 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: the Governor and state leaders give up on meeting the state’s April 1st budget deadline, our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on a judge has ordering New York’s Democratic-controlled Legislature to redraw the state’s congressional and legislative districts after finding them unconstitutional, and Senator Gillibrand renews efforts to bring banking to the post office.

Everyone knows that Quantum mechanics can be non-logical. Yet it works when it comes to describing the behavior of atoms and all the other small stuff that makes up our universe. It has also been used to create new technologies such as the transistor. But to believe it means believing things about reality that very few of us would find acceptable. Even Albert Einstein, who helped establish quantum theory more than a century ago, came to question its principles for most of his life. This week we'll explore two basic principles of common sense that quantum theory throws away.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, March 26th, 2022

Dr. Dave A. Chokshi is the former Commissioner at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. He led the City’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including its historic campaign to vaccinate over 6 million New Yorkers. “We have gotten vaccinated not just to protect ourselves but to protect our communities,” says Chokshi, who sees something admirable in our pandemic response.