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This year’s Perseid Meteor Shower peaked this week, and we have now entered our annual period famous for both haze and shooting stars. This week, we discuss meteor showers including the Leonid shower, the Geminid shower, and the perfect conditions to view these spectacular displays.

Can you get out of here? That is the question pondered for centuries: how to permanently leave Earth. This week, we discuss escape velocity, the minimum speed that an object needs to be traveling to break free of gravitational influence.

Education technology has come a long way from the very first attempts a century ago. This week, we’ll explore the history of teaching machines.

In her new novel “Infinite Country,” acclaimed author Patricia Engel gives voice to five family members as they navigate the particular challenges family life in two countries. In the book, Engel shows immigration as an ongoing process and a constant flow of people across borders.

This week, we'll hear an archival interview with James Lowen from 2018.

Editor, journalist and writer Christopher Cox explores his experiences with looming deadlines and how he became determined to learn the secret of managing them in his new book, “The Deadline Effect: How to Work Like it’s the Last Minute Before the Last Minute.”

On this episode of 51%, we discuss eating disorders: what they look like, why they develop, and how they're treated. We also speak with advocates with the Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders, or STRIPED, who are working to restrict the sale of over-the-counter diet pills to minors.

Bestselling author Francine Prose’s latest “The Vixen,” set in the glamorous world of 1950s New York publishing, is the story of a young man tasked with editing a steamy bodice-ripper based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg - an assignment that will reveal the true cost of entering such a world.

The new book “Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR” by journalist Lisa Napoli is a group biography of four beloved women who fought sexism, covered decades of American news, and whose voices defined NPR.

(Airs 08/26/21 @ 3 p.m. & 08/28/21 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with New York State Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes.