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(Airs 01/27/22 @ 1 p.m.) Alan Chartock interviews Linda Marsa, author of Fevered: Why a Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health – And How We Can Save Ourselves.

(Airs 01/23/22 @ 6 p.m. & 01/24/22 @ 3 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock, Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, Judy Patrick, and Rosemary Armao, Investigative Journalist and Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Judy, Rosemary and Ira talk President Joe Biden’s press conference, protections for journalists, and a big merger between a newspaper and public radio in Chicago.

For the first time ever, astronomers – alerted by a strange brightening cloud of nebulous material surrounding a giant red star in a distant galaxy – have watched the process of an exploding supernova from beginning to end.The last time a star visibly exploded in our own galaxy was way back in 1604. Still, although we’ve seen some star explode in some galaxy at the rate of about once a year, we’ve never watched the process from before it even happened. So this counts as one of astronomy’s true first-time events.

On this week’s 51%, we hit the books. University of Virginia Professor Andrea Press explains how today’s media can better represent women in her book, Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism. And Dr. Sharon Ufberg speaks with Take the Lead’s Gloria Feldt about her latest title, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for Everyone’s Good.

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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 Yarn from Roots Music Festival 2015, and Lissie from 2018.

(Airs 01/30/22 @ 6 p.m. & 01/31/22 @ 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 and current columnist Rex Smith, Rosemary Armao, Investigative Journalist and Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany, and Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Rosemary, Ira and Rex talk about reporters in danger, ESPN’s decision not to send reporters to the Olympics, President Biden being caught criticizing a Fox News journalist on a hot mic, and much more.

(Airs 1/28/22 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Lawmakers want Albany’s Nano-tech Complex to be the nation’s first semiconductor technology center, our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on the passing of former Speaker Sheldon Silver, and we’ll take you to a recent virtual news conference with survivors of sexual harassment who want their day in court.

Environmental journalist Meera Subramanian has covered stories all over the world, but she seldom knows how events unfold after she departs: “What keeps me up at night is that all these stories stay with me, and I don’t know the ending all the time.” A conversation about girls in India, maps of Texas, and falcons over Cape Cod. Produced with Orion magazine.

Given that July 4th is almost here, many of us are about to be in the middle of a crowd comfortable sprawled on blankets or lawn chairs and all looking up at the sky at the same time. Most communities don’t start the show until nearly full darkness has fallen at around 9:30 or even 10 p.m., which gives us plenty of time to gaze into the deepening twilight. This year, no planets are out then, but there will be a very conspicuous crescent Moon.