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#1681: Rockets and International Relations | The Best of Our Knowledge

By Lucas Willard,

Dave Lucas

Published December 9, 2022 at 3:00 PM EST

Officials spoke with Shaker High School students

On this episode, students at an upstate New York High School get a primer on international relations during a visit with U.S. and Korean officials.

Host Lucas Willard with Skidmore College astrophysicist Mary Odekon NASA’s Artemis program and the concept of retro-futurism.

And The Best of Our Knowledge’s Dave Lucas reports on the role machine learning could have in predicting the next pandemic.

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Lucas Willard

Lucas Willard is a news reporter and host at WAMC Northeast Public Radio, which he joined in 2011. He produces and hosts The Best of Our Knowledge and WAMC Listening Party.

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Dave Lucas

Dave Lucas is WAMC’s Capital Region Bureau Chief. Born and raised in Albany, he’s been involved in nearly every aspect of local radio since 1981. Before joining WAMC, Dave was a reporter and anchor at WGY in Schenectady. Prior to that he hosted talk shows on WYJB and WROW, including the 1999 series of overnight radio broadcasts tracking the JonBenet Ramsey murder case with a cast of callers and characters from all over the world via the internet. In 2012, Dave received a Communicator Award of Distinction for his WAMC news story "Fail: The NYS Flood Panel," which explores whether the damage from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee could have been prevented or at least curbed. Dave began his radio career as a “morning personality” at WABY in Albany.

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