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The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research.Arsenic is a naturally-occurring toxin with a big reputation.But scientists say arsenic-contaminated waste could have a potential public benefit, including in advanced manufacturing. We’ll explore how an environmental challenge could become an economic opportunity.

This week marks the anniversary of the biggest exploding meteor of our lives – and the only one to cause multiple injuries. That daylight explosion was the largest extraterrestrial body impacting the Earth since the Tunguska event in 1908.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, February 7th, 2026

(Airs 03/13/26 @ 3 p.m. & 03/15/26 @ 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, Judy Patrick, former Editor of The Daily Gazette and former Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, and Barbara Lombardo, Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany and former Editor of The Saratogian. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Judy and Barbara talk about coverage of the war in Iran, whether the police blotter is still useful to communities, and much more.

On Sunday night, Match 22, the strange planet Uranus will float to the left of the crescent Moon. Here’s where the fun begins. Uranus is green because its atmosphere has lots of methane, which absorbs the sun’s red light but reflects the green and blue to our eyes.Grab those binoculars you haven’t used in years and sweep them leftward of the Moon until you see a little green star. Since actual stars are never green, you’ll know you’ve found the seventh planet.

(Airs 03/20/26 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: There’s an effort underway in Albany to close a sex trafficking loophole, we’ll learn more about the birth of New York state, and The Adirondack Park Agency is another step closer to moving its headquarters.

Kudzu, originally native to Japan, is known as "the vine that ate the South." The federal government began paying farmers $8 an acre in the 1930s to plant it across the south because it was touted to revitalize the soil. It actually worked, but ultimately kudzu grew out of control, spreading nearly a foot a day and rooting wherever it touched. Along with its super-high growth rate, it had no natural enemies in the region. The government only stopped paying farmers to grow kudzu in 1953 and the Department of Agriculture finally declared it to be a weed in 1970.

(Airs 03/20/26 @ 3 p.m. & 03/22/26 @ 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, Judy Patrick, former Editor of The Daily Gazette and former Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, and Barbara Lombardo, Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany and former Editor of The Saratogian. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Judy and Barbara talk about the global push to make A-I companies pay for the news, journalism programs encouraging student to go solo, and much more.

Playlist as aired on March 21st, 2026

Henry David Thoreau is a lot of things: a father of nature writing in 19th century America; a radical thinker who challenged societal norms; the subject of homework assignments for bored 21st century high school students.The transcendentalist’s legacy is the subject of a new three-part documentary. We’ll speak with the filmmakers behind the project.