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  • Airs Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. Check your local listings.
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  • Science fiction author and editor, Dr. Ben Bova, passed away on November 29, 2020 from COVID-19 related pneumonia and a stroke. Bova wrote more than 120 books of fiction and non-fiction, and was a six-time Hugo Award winner. He was editorial director of Omni Magazine, the editor of Analog Magazine, and he was president of the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America. We listen back to excerpts from his appearance on Gulf Coast Live on January 3, 2007.
  • Dig into the history of the Cuban sandwich with the authors of the new book “The Cuban Sandwich: A History in Layers.”
  • While many large tracts of land in Southwest Florida have been forever lost to development over the past century or so, quite a bit of it has been preserved thanks to the dedicated efforts of countless people and organizations — and the local, state, and federal elected officials who environmental advocates could convince that wetlands were valuable for their own sake. For example, more than 70% of land in Collier County has been preserved as public land. Think Fakahatchee Strand State Park, Picayune Strand State Forest, Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Big Cypress National Preserve, Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, and the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge, just to name a few. We explore some of this fascinating history with the co-authors of the new book, “Enjoyment of the Same: A History of Public Lands in Southwest Florida.”
  • Get a first-person look at the lives of ocean creatures like sharks, turtles and gannets.
  • Attenborough recalls the scientific breakthroughs that helped shape his career.
  • In 1995, while filming wild horses in the mountains of Montana, Ginger Kathrens discovered
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