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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 GA-20 and JD Simo from October of this year, and a 2018 set from Tinsley Ellis.

The world is a pretty big place. And it’s the size of the planet that can sometimes make climate change a difficult concept for a lot of people to wrap their heads around. A new book is trying to knock that concept down to size. It’s called “The Atlas of a Changing Climate”, and it’s beautifully illustrated with contemporary and historic maps and images from around the world.It’s the work of Brian Buma. Dr. Buma is an assistant professor of Quantitative Biology at the University of Colorado and an affiliate professor at the University of Alaska. His explorations and wanderings around the globe have been featured in National Geographic.We’ll also spend an Academic Minute with life in a warming sea.

Back in February, NASA successfully landed the Perseverance rover on Mars. The pictures it transmitted back to Earth of the red planet were spectacular and captured the imagination of millions. It also gave the Cambridge Dictionary its first hint on what this year’s word of the year would be.Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll hear why the Cambridge Dictionary made perseverance the 2021 word of the year.

This week we’ll hear from those who have dedicated their lives to the sky.

Pleaides, also known as the "Seven Sisters," makes its debut this month. We’ll also hear what makes this cluster so special.

(Airs 11/07/21 @ 6 p.m. & 11/08/21 @ 3 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock, former Times Union Editor Rex Smith, Barbara Lombardo, former Editor of the Saratogian and a Journalism Professor at the University at Albany, and Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Barbara, Ira, and Rex talk about a growing number of people who say they’re turning away from the news, college students who are challenging traditional journalism ethics, and much more.

On this week’s 51%, we speak with Stephanie Johnson of the American Medical Association about a new campaign to promote heart health and self-care among Black women. We also discuss sexual health, vaginal pain, and postpartum care with Dr. Molly Rivest, a women’s health practitioner based in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich’s new book is a ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors. “The Sentence” asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book.

Every year students around the country work hard, sacrifice, and study to earn their PhD. But is earning that ultimate degree worth it?Next time on The Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll hear an archival interview with a pair of professors who think the PhD as it currently exists is a relic that needs to be rebuilt from the bottom up.We’ll also spend an Academic Minute with higher ed mergers.

(Airs 11/05/21 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Republicans and conservatives claim victory in the rejection of three ballot proposals that would have expanded voting in the state, our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on the Republican’s big win in New York and around the country, and we’ll have a conversation with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.