February 24, 2025: Every day, an education

Today’s show is jam packed with FACTSDid you know that there’s a whole day to celebrate and encourage reparations? Professor Ousmane Power-Greene of Clark University tells us more about this grassroots holiday effort to get more folx more acclimated to the concepts being proposed in today's Power of History.And did you know that only last week DOGE stripped away contracts with agencies that will affect many small farms in Western Mass and around the country? We’ll speak with Abby Ferla about the repercussions of these cuts at Foxtrot Farm, and why size may matter in the ways Federal funding comes to agriculture. How about the shortage of Primary Care Physicians in the Baystate? The NEPM Newsroom’s Karen Brown has just completed a series looking at the issue and how it relates not just in Massachusetts but nationwide and how both patients and doctors themselves are feeling the strain. Maybe you wanna find out about Asteroid 2024 YR4, which had a shift on the Torino Scale. Or perhaps a beloved Amherst College Astronomer we lost this week, both of which we’ll learn more about from Mr. Universe, Kainaat Studios and Hampshire College’s Salman Hameed.