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On this week's 51%, WAMC's Ian Pickus speaks with NPR Life Kit host Marielle Segarra about the importance of breast cancer screening, and her own battle with breast cancer as a woman in her mid-30s. We also speak with Dr. Niraj Sharma of Cardinal Spine & Pain Medicine about some non-surgical treatments for chronic pain, and the struggles faced by independent, small-town doctors.

(Airs 11/29/24 & 12/01/24 @ 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, Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, Daily Gazette Editor Miles Reed, and WAMC News Director Ian Pickus. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Judy, Miles, and Ian talk about what they’re thankful for when it comes to journalists and journalism, what treatment the media, how journalists should cover a second Trump Administration, and much more.

(Airs 11/29/24 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: New York Governor Kathy Hochul signs Melanie’s Law, researchers in New York are studying how to reduce cow and other livestock emissions, and we’ll speak with the New York Power Authority’s Vice President for the state’s strategic renewable energy plan.

(Airs 11/28/24 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with WNYC Capital Bureau Chief Jon Campbell about recently signed legislation, bills that are pending in the coming legislative session, and much more.

After 25 years of stumping scientists, a mysterious mollusk found drifting in the ocean off the coast of California, has been identified. We’ll learn more about this unusual animal.And we’ll learn about how human practices can both contribute to and help prevent wildfires.

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(Airs 11/15/24 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: President-elect Donald Trump nominates former Long Island Congressman Lee Zeldin to lead the EPA, and New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik as UN Ambassador, Republican Assembly Minority Leader reacts to Governor Hochul reviving the Congestion Pricing plan for NYC, and we’ll look back in history at the progressive movement with lessons for today’s politics.

Just after Gordon Davis’ team rebuilt Central Park’s Sheep Meadow, it turned completely brown. Why “How do I know I’m not an arborist. I’m not a horticulturalist. I can’t tell an elm from an oak. That wasn’t my job.” His job was Parks Commissioner, and he was great at it. Davis tells us about Geoff Howard and The Sheep Meadow.

Do you or any of your friends know the most abundant element in your body is oxygen? Can you name the only major moon that does not circle around its planet’s equator? (That’s our own Moon). Have any idea that the average cloud weighs one million pounds? We’ll give credit to those who showed us the fundamentals.

Ian Rankin is the multimillion-copy worldwide bestseller of over thirty novels and creator of John Rebus. His latest, “Midnight and Blue,” is his 25th novel in the Rebus series.