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As love slowly fills the air, Mountain Stage is heading into February with a very special episode, curated by our artistic director Larry Groce, with help from the Mountain Stage team of producers. The show is presented in four parts: “Isn’t Love Great,” “You Get It All,” “The Same Love That Makes You Laugh”, and “I Know Love Is All I Need.” We hear live performances from Robert Cray Band, Rhiannon Giddens, The Band, Adia Victoria, Emmylou Harris, Los Lobos, Joy Oladokun, Joan Osborne and more. https://bit.ly/414sxbF

How do you fix a word that’s broken? A word we need when we bump into someone on the street, or break someone’s heart. In our increasingly disconnected secular world, “sorry” has been stretched and twisted, and in some cases weaponized. But it’s also one of the only ways we have to piece together a sense of shared values and beliefs. Through today's sea of sorry-not-sorries, empty apologies, and just straight up non-apologies, we wonder in this episode from 2018 what it looks like to make amends. EPISODE CREDITS:  Reported and Produced by – Annie McEwenwith help from – Simon Adler CITATIONS:The program at Stanford that Leilani went through (and now works for) (https://zpr.io/eYhfZnwznHfD) was a joint creation between Stanford and Lee Taft.  Our newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)! Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today.Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing radiolab@wnyc.org Leadership support for Radiolab’s science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

For more than 60 years, John Cale has continued to make exciting, challenging and culturally relevant music, including his most recent release, Mercy. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk with the Velvet Underground legend about his new music, collaborations and legacy. Plus, the hosts share some of their favorite spy songs and bid farewell to jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter.   Join our Facebook Group: https://bit.ly/3sivr9T Become a member on Patreon: https://bit.ly/3slWZvc Sign up for our newsletter: https://bit.ly/3eEvRnG Make a donation via PayPal: https://bit.ly/3dmt9lU Send us a Voice Memo: Desktop: bit.ly/2RyD5Ah  Mobile: sayhi.chat/soundops   Featured Songs: John Cale, "STORY OF BLOOD feat. Weyes Blood," Mercy, Double Six, 2023The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Capitol, 1967John Cale, "EVERLASTING DAYS feat. Animal Collective," Mercy, Double Six, 2023John Cale, "MARILYN MONROE'S LEGS (beauty elsewhere) feat. Actress," Mercy, Double Six, 2023John Cale, "TIME STANDS STILL feat. Sylvan Esso," Mercy, Double Six, 2023John Cale, "NIGHT CRAWLING," Mercy, Double Six, 2023John Cale, "MOONSTRUCK (Nico's Song)," Mercy, Double Six, 2023The Velvet Underground and Nico, "Femme Fatale," The Velvet Underground & Nico, Verve, 1967The Velvet Underground and Nico, "I'm Waiting for the Man," The Velvet Underground & Nico, Verve, 1967John Cale, "Dying On the Vine (Fragments)," Artificial Intelligence, PVC, 1985John Cale, "MERCY," Mercy, Double Six, 2023Johnny Rivers, "Secret Agent Man," …And I Know You Wanna Dance, Imperial, 1966Tony Allen, "Secret Agent," Secret Agent, World Circuit, 2009The Fugs, "CIA Man," Virgin Fugs, ESP-Disk, 1967Gene Vincent, "Private Detective (feat. The Shouts)," Private Detective (feat. The Shouts) (Single), Columbia, 1964Rockwell, "Somebody's Watching Me," Somebody's Watching Me, Motown, 1984The Untouchables, "I Spy (For the F.B.I.)," Wild Child, MCA, 1985Lori & The Chameleons, "The Lonely Spy," To the Shores of Lake Placid, Zoo, 1982Desmond Dekker & the Aces, "007 (Shanty Town)," Action!, Lagoon, 1968The dB's, "A Spy In the House of Love," Like This, Bearsville, 1984Big Boys, "Detectives," The Skinny Elvis, Touch and Go, 1993Steely Dan & Tom Scott, "Aja," Aja, ABC, 1977Wayne Shorter, "Speak No Evil," Speak No Evil, Blue Note, 1966Poster Children, "She Walks," Flower Plower, Limited Potential, 1989Support The Show: https://www.patreon.com/soundopinionsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Vulpecula, the fox, doesn’t have a lot of impressive stars. But it sure has a lot of impressive dead ones. That’s where astronomers discovered the first neutron star — which also happened to be the first pulsar. And a few years ago, it’s where they discovered the first fast radio burst in our home galaxy — an object that’s also a neutron star. A neutron star is the corpse of a massive star that exploded as a supernova. The star’s core collapsed to just a few miles across, but it’s more massive than the Sun. The first neutron star was discovered in Vulpecula in 1967. It was emitting regular “pulses” of radio waves as it spun on its axis. So it was called a pulsar. Some pulsars steal gas from normal companion stars, which makes them spin up to hundreds of times per second. The first of those was discovered in Vulpecula as well. And in 2020, another neutron star there suddenly produced short bursts of radio waves that didn’t sync up with how fast it spins — the first sighting of such an event in the Milky Way. A recent study says it was a result of an outburst of charged particles. The star generates an extremely powerful magnetic field. A disruption in the field likely generated the “volcano” of particles. That slowed the star’s rotation by a tiny bit, producing the radio bursts — and another interesting “dead” star in Vulpecula. The fox is in the northeast at first light, to the right of Cygnus, the swan.  Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

Was it really 20 years ago? This week we travel back in time to 2002, an incredible year for Latin Alternative music! Featured artists include Natalia Lafourcade, Kinky, Jaguares, Orishas, Cafe Tacvba, Gustavo Cerati, Babasonicos and more.

A flute player breaks into a British museum and makes off with a million dollars worth of dead birds.