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Airborne!

Only 65 years separated the flights of the Wright Brothers and the Apollo 11 crew.

July 17, 2019
NASA’s Jupiter Joke

The planetary punchline we didn’t know we needed.

July 16, 2019
The Jade Rabbit

Paredoilia is the tendency to reconcile vague shapes as something you’re familiar with, like seeing shapes in clouds the craters of the moon: a little baby, a man…or a rabbit.

July 11, 2019
Moon Glow

Why does the moon shine, or, you know, glow?

July 9, 2019
Underneath the Russian Moon

The USSR takes the first major step forward in the Space Race.

July 5, 2019
By Rocket to the Moon!

All aboard!

July 1, 2019
The Contralto and the Physicist

You’re listening to Marian Anderson with “Heav’n, Heav’n”, a Masterpiece 78 from 1943, and You’re on the Sound Beat. When Marian Anderson performed at Princeton University in 1937, she was one of the most famous singers in the world. None other than Arturo Toscanini, once told her she had a voice “heard once in a hundred years”. ...

June 5, 2019
Sweet Georgia Brown

Try to go all the way through this one without whistling.

April 12, 2019
Frederick Douglass Escapes

Before Frederick Douglass worked to free others, he had to free himself.

April 5, 2019
Lalapaluza Lu

“The girlfriend of the Armed Forces.”

January 17, 2019