Wednesday, February 16th | KNCT | Central Texas Public Radio

If you haven’t been, or perhaps haven’t been in a while, to the Mayborn Science Theater on the campus of Central Texas College in Killeen, this weekend is a great time to check them out.

Here is their schedule this week:

Wednesday, February 16; 3:30 p.m. – “Exoplanets: Worlds of Wonder”
The Saturday show schedule:
- 11 a.m. – “The Little Star That Could”
- 12 p.m. – “Kaluoka’hina: The Enchanted Reef”
- 1 p.m. – “Legends of the Night Sky: Orion” and “Legends of the Night Sky: Perseus and Andromeda”
- 2:30 p.m. – “Ningaloo: Australia’s Other Great Reef”
- 3:30 p.m. – “Mars One Thousand One”
- 4:30 p.m. – “Natural Selection: Darwin’s Mystery of Mysteries”
- 5:30 p.m. – “Laser iPop” laser light show
Presidents’ Day, February 21:
- 1:30 p.m. – “Spirit of America” laser light show
- 2:30 p.m. – “Laser Spirit” laser light show
Laser Friday, February 25:
- 6 p.m. – “Laser Grateful Dead”
- 7 p.m. – “Laser Zeppelin”
- 8 p.m. – “Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon”
February 26: Warren’s Star Tour; 5:30 p.m. – pre-empts regular scheduled shows.
The Mayborn Science Theater will showcase two films to commemorate Black History Month:
February 19: “Selma;” 6:30 p.m.
February 26: “The Harlem Hellfighters Great War;” 6:30 p.m.

The marches from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery to secure voting rights for black Americans are depicted in this docudrama set during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, and which focuses on the actions of Martin Luther King Jr.

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5:57 am and 4:57 pm

StarDate – Close Neighbors
As we gaze into the night sky, we see only one close neighbor: the Moon. It’s a quarter of a million miles away — millions of miles closer than any other large body. But a lot of little bodies inhabit our region of the solar system. They’re too small to see with our eyes. But they follow orbits that can bring them quite close to Earth — perhaps dangerously close.

6:30 am and 12:30 pm

The Sound of Texas with Tumbleweed Smith
John Ray of Carthage

8:30 am and 3:30 pm

EarthDate – Earth’s Odd Orbit

The shape of Earth’s orbit becomes more or less oval (eccentricity), Earth wobbles as it spins (precession), and Earth’s axis changes too (tilt). All these changes, over thousands of years, cause variation in Earth’s insolation, which affects climate.

9:30 am and 2:30 pm

Science and the Sea – Mother Lagoon

Laguna Madre — Mother Lagoon — is one of the saltiest bodies of water on the planet. The narrow lagoon stretches a couple of hundred miles along the coasts of Texas and Mexico, between the mainland and a series of barrier islands.

10:30 am and 1:30 pm

SoundBeat with Brett Barry – Ah, Paris!
Got 90 seconds? Then you’ve got time for a trip through the history of recorded sound! Sound Beat is a daily, 90-second show highlighting the holdings of the Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive. Belfer is part of Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center and is one of the largest sound archives in the United States. Each Sound Beat episode focuses on one particular recording from the Archive and provides a back story detailing its place in recording history.

5 pm

Reveal Weekly on NestFM
A Strike At The Heart of Roe
- To see what the future of abortion could be in the United States, look to Texas. Across the country, conservative foes of abortion rights have pushed “heartbeat bills” that would ban abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy, when an embryo’s cardiac activity can be detected. Journalist Amy Littlefield and a team of law and journalism students from UC Berkeley investigate how this law went from being dismissed as a fringe idea, even by traditional right-to-life groups, to getting enforced in Texas.
- We hear the backstory of right-wing activists who have been pushing toward this moment for more than a decade by embracing an approach that uses science over religion to justify abortion restrictions. But the science is often skewed and misleading. To rally support for a ban on abortion, activist Janet Porter filled press conferences with red heart balloons and sent lawmakers teddy bears that play the sound of heartbeats. Mark Lee Dickson drove across Texas in his Ford pickup getting small towns to pass ordinances that create “Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn.” It was all a precursor for what was to come.
- Now, the consequences of restricting abortion are playing out in the crowded waiting room of an abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas, where staff are being overwhelmed by patients from Texas. To get an abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy, Texas patients not only must leave their state, but also navigate the rules of a different state with its own set of laws designed to make abortion hard to access.

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Reveal is the Peabody Award-winning investigative journalism program for public radio from The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX.

6 pm

A Way with Words on NestFM
Mittens in Moonlight
Need a slang term that can replace just about any noun? Try chumpie. If you’re from Philadelphia, you may already know this handy placeholder word. And there’s Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Manhattan, and . . . The Bronx? Why do we add the definite article to the name of that New York borough? The answer lies in the area’s geography and local family lore. Plus, an Australian bullfrog that sounds like a banjo? Yup! It’s called a pobblebonk. Also: get the pips, down your Sunday throat, jubous, dinor vs. diner, stepped out of a bandbox, a Carl Sandburg poem, quemacocos, sirsee, and a punny puzzle about doing well.

6:15 pm

On the Dock with Rick Smith

7:00 pm

Echoes with John Diliberto on NestFM

Echoes is a daily two-hour contemporary music soundscape distributed by PRX and broadcast on over 120 radio stations across the country that brings together a wide array of styles, from acoustic to electronic, jazz to space music, the avant-garde to rock. Echoes is a sound that is cross-cultural and trans-millennial, merging cultures and forms, technology and tradition, the ancient past and the possible future.

9:00 pm to Midnight