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#1634: Revisiting lunar road trips

When Apollo 11 landing on the moon they indeed stepped where no man has gone before. But once they got there, they didn’t go far. Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll learn about the development of the lunar rover, and how that opened up the later Apollo missions with lunar road trips.

#1633: The forgotten story of Clinton Melton

A few weeks back we spoke about the murder of Emmett Till and what it meant to the civil rights movement. But history tends to repeat itself. Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, a story about a lesser known casualty of the Jim Crow south.

Academic Minute: Infrastructure in Rural Alaska

Today on the Academic Minute: Guangping Chi, professor of rural sociology and demography at Pennsylvania State University, examines why it can be so difficult to fix infrastructure in rural areas. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.

#1632: The coolest people we met this year

We’ll also spend an Academic Minute with the less than wonderful effects of social media.On our last episode of the tear we usually look back at some of the coolest people we met over the year. This year, three of those people were all on the same segment.Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll revisit our social worker roundtable.

#1631: Some of our favorite stories of the year

Every year around this time we look back at some of our favorite stories of the year. There were an awful lot to choose from this time around, so the choice came down to what we could fit in this half hour.Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll hear about the job you get as opposed to the job you want, find out about the history of teaching machines, and spend an Academic Minute out in the dark edge of the universe.

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