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It will be a great sky year, so let’s get a sneak preview. Start now, the next clear evening. There’s Venus, the Evening Star, still close to its absolute brightest as it hovers low above the sunset point in the fading dusk. Steadily-braced binoculars or any small telescope will reveal its crescent shape, now bigger yet thinner than any time this year. It’s the best time to see it.

A few weeks back we spoke about the murder of Emmett Till and what it meant to the civil rights movement. But history tends to repeat itself. Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, a story about a lesser known casualty of the Jim Crow south.

Steven Strogatz is a mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. He discusses his person - Arthur Winfree - his place - a field near Ithaca, NY - and his thing - a pendulum.

Jodi Picoult is the author of twenty-five internationally bestselling novels. Her latest, Wish You Were Here, begins in New York City, March 2020 as young art professional Diana O’Toole is about to embark on a trip to the Galapagos with her surgical resident boyfriend-soon-to-be-fiancé. But then a virus that felt worlds away appears in the city.

On this week’s 51%, we continue our series talking to women religious leaders. Rabbi Debora Gordon discusses how music can help build connection and community. And we also speak with soferet Julie Seltzer about the art of writing and transcribing holy Jewish texts.

(Airs 1/07/22 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Governor Kathy Hochul delivers her first state of the state address, our political observer Alan Chartock will share his thoughts on the speech, and a New York Congressman remembers the January 6th riot last year at the U.S. Capitol.

When Apollo 11 landing on the moon they indeed stepped where no man has gone before. But once they got there, they didn’t go far. Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll learn about the development of the lunar rover, and how that opened up the later Apollo missions with lunar road trips.

Each Wednesday and Sunday evening at 8 p.m. “Live At The Linda” brings you some of the best musical acts to grace the stage at The Linda - WAMC's Performing Arts Studio. This week we feature two singer-songwriters: Brooks Williams from 2010 and Mary Gauthier from 2021.

Comet Leonard is now heading even further south and dimming, so it’s time to move on. But a great comet comes along every 15 years on average, so there’s always next time.

Madison Smartt Bell is a novelist especially known for his trilogy of novels about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution.