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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.

Architect Jason Korb discusses the construction of a mass timber building set to be the tallest of its kind.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, July 2nd, 2022:

(Airs 07/07/22 @ 3 p.m. & 07/09/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina, filling in for Alan Chartock, speaks with Dr. Lee Miringoff, Director of The Marist Institute of Public Opinion.

Animator J.J. Sedelmaier—you don’t know his name, but you know his work for MTV and SNL—is fascinated by Samuel Insull, Edison’s former assistant, who brought electricity to Chicago, achieved global fame, and whose name you (and I) also didn’t know. “There’s no reason he shouldn’t be up there with Carnegie and J. P. Morgan.”

The summer solstice arrived earlier this week, a funny mixture of natural events and government rulings.

PEN America's Jonathan Friedman explains how challenges of school library books might impact free speech and public education as a whole.

(Airs 6/30/22 @ 1 p.m.) -- The Power of Words: On this program, WAMC's Alan Chartock and Historian Dr. Allida Black discuss First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's Declaration of Human Rights speech. In addition, listeners will have an opportunity to actually hear the speech as it was delivered in Paris on December 9th, 1948.

(Airs 07/01/22 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Senator Gillibrand gathers with women in Albany to speak out against the Supreme Court decision striking down Roe v Wade, our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on this week’s primary results, and a conversation about the new rules for horse racing which will impact Saratoga and beyond.

Much admired for his operas, composer Tod Machover contemplates a happy dichotomy: “These two places are perfectly balanced for the kind of work I do and the kind of life I lead.” Heaven and Hell? No! His old-fashioned barn-studio and the new-fangled MIT Media Lab. Technology, music, and more.