Today on Astronomy.FM Radio (Jan 24th UTC)

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Today we are broadcasting the following shows (times are approximate):

~ "WNMC's First*Light!" with Michael Foerster, Eric Hines & David
Gault ~
(at 0200, 0500, 0800, 1100, 1400, 1700, 2000, 2300 GMT)
First*Light! looks at news from the intersection of science and
society. (And at that
intersection we often find a car wreck!) News, what's up, and WEIRD
SCIENCE!
Today: 2009's best science stories of the year

~ "Are We Alone" with Molly Bently and Seth Shostak ~
(0300, 0600, 0900, 1200, 1500, 1800, 2100, 0000 GMT)
Public distrust of science is higher than at any time since the
Enlightenment. New Yorker writer Michael Specter argues how our anti-
science bias and our irrationalism about everything from genetically
modified foods to climate change to childhood vaccines endangers our
future. And remember when… a look back at scientists who at first
pooh-poohed plate tectonics… meteorites, and quantum physics. How the
evidence turned them around. It’s Skeptic Check… but don’t take our
word for it.

~ "365 Days of Astronomy" hosted today by Craig Robertson ~
(0400, 0700, 1000, 1300, 1500, 1800, 2100, 0100 GMT)
The daily program of the International Year of Astronomy
Today: A brief biography of George Gamov

~ "Space" by Radio Lab ~
(0415, 0715, 1015, 1315, 1515, 1815, 2115, 0115 GMT)
In the 60’s, space exploration was an American obsession. But the
growing reality of space has turned the romance to cynicism. We chart
the path from then to now. We begin with Ann Druyan, widow of Carl
Sagan, with a story about the Voyager expedition, true love, and
golden record that travels through space. For a dose of reality,
astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson explains the Coepernican Principle
and just how insignificant we are.


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~ Michael
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