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Windfarms located out to sea have the advantages that there is a lack of obstacles to airflow and higher wind speeds and steadier wind flow tend to be observed out at sea. As of last year, the global offshore wind capacity reached 83-88 gigawatts, enough to power 75 to 100 million homes and is growing rapidly with annual growth rates of 15% or more.

On this week's 51%, we speak with Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, a professor at the University of Georgia School of Law, about her new book The Pain Brokers. Burch is a scholar of mass torts, the large civil lawsuits typically filed as a result of harmful products and recalls. Mass torts are meant to be an efficient way to provide relief to a large number of victims, but for thousands of women with pelvic mesh, Burch says that was not the case. The Pain Brokers investigates a complex scheme of call centers, doctors, and lawyers who Burch says preyed on pelvic mesh patients and used them to make millions off mass torts.

Researchers at Michigan State University's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources have been studying dietary fats and their effects on dairy cows for over a decade. This research in part focused on high-oleic soybeans, a variety that is rich in oleic acid, a type of fatty acid found in both animal and vegetable fats and oils. The conjecture was that if these soybeans were included in a cow’s diet, the yields of milk fat and protein would increase, and along with them, the profits of farmers.

We’ll get a lunar eclipse this Tuesday morning, and it’s generating a lot of buzz, especially since such eclipses have been dramatically called Blood Moons in recent years. That’s because the Moon turns reddish when the eclipse is total. In truth it’s actually a coppery hue, which isn’t really the color of blood unless there’s something very wrong with your hemoglobin.

(Airs 02/27/26 @ 3 p.m. & 02/29/26 @ 6 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with former Times Union Editor, current Upstate American, Substack columnist Rex Smith, Barbara Lombardo, Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany and former Editor of The Saratogian, and former Times Union Associate Editor Mike Spain. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Barbara and Mike talk about media coverage of President Trump’s State of the Union Address, whether print newspapers matter anymore, a trust initiative at a major newspaper, and more.

(Airs 02/26/26 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: New York State's Olympic authority based in Lake Placid is now tasked with writing a 30-year maintenance plan, we’ll talk about the rise of food insecurity with the President & CEO of United Way and 211 New York, and we’ll honor Black History Month with two stories about the past and the present.

When we talk about locust swarms, we envision biblical plagues and famines in ancient societies. But locusts continue to be a serious problem around the world. Huge swarms of the insects can destroy crops across entire regions and cause massive economic losses.

(Airs 02/26/26 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Therese Daly, President and CEO of United Way and 211 New York, about their push to increase funding as numbers rise among people utilizing food, housing, mental health and other assistance from 211 New York.

The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research.Birds of a different feather sometimes stick together. We’ll learn about two raptors of separate species that displayed an unusual friendship.And elephants depend on their trunks to navigate the world. Their whiskers make it all possible.

In January 2025, two large wildfires burned through large areas of greater Los Angeles damaging or destroying more than 18,000 buildings and directly causing the death of 31 people. A study by public health researchers attributed another 409 deaths to factors associated with the fires. While the fires burned, air quality in Los Angeles was terrible. Researchers from UCLA’s School of Public Health collected air samples both indoors and out during and after the fires.