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Playlist as aired on Saturday, August 23rd, 2025

Arcturus: A Star Worth Saluting: On the next clear evening around 8 p.m., look west and halfway up the sky—you’ll spot Arcturus, a bright pastel-orange star and the fourth brightest we can see from Earth. It once famously opened the 1933 Chicago World's Fair with its light and is unique among bright stars for its wild, plunging path through space. Unlike stars that circle with the Milky Way, Arcturus is just passing through—so catch a glimpse while you can. It's the brightest thing in tonight’s sky… and it won’t be there forever.

The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education and research.On this episode, we’ll learn about how one artist views and creates visual art through the use of artificial intelligence – and discuss the importance of AI literacy.And American cities are sinking. We’ll learn how satellites are used to track shifting population centers.

America is experiencing renewed efforts to ban books, pass so-called parents' rights legislation, and vilify teachers unions. We’ll speak with the authors of "The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual," about who and what is putting schools at the center of the culture war.

“The Friday Afternoon Club” by actor Griffin Dunne is a memoir of growing up among larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan. The book finds wicked humor and glimmers of light in even the most painful of circumstances.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, June 22nd, 2024

For the first time since 1985, the Full Moon happens precisely on the summer solstice. Tune in to hear the process of the moon’s explosive brightening.

(Airs 06/21/24 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: State education officials unveil a proposal to transform the state’s graduation requirements, State Senator Liz Krueger, a Democrat, is angry at the Governor over congestion pricing, and Republicans and Democrats in the North Country express disappointment with where key issues ended up at the end of session.

It can be a challenge for even terrific actors like Santino Fontana to stay fresh and focused night after night. “I’ll make up, you know, Gandhi is in the fourth row; do a great show.” Fontana also talks about Philip Seymour Hoffman and Cinc Sentits.

Nathan Hill’s new novel “Wellness” is a poignant and witty novel about marriage, the often-baffling pursuit of health and happiness, and the stories that bind us together. The book brings us from the gritty '90s Chicago art scene to a suburbia of detox diets and home-renovation hysteria.