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    • About Eastern Standard
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    • Chronological Archive
  • Contributors & Series
    • Joshua Douglas: Democracy Optimist
    • Carolyn Dupont - Civics, Civility and the Path to a Shared American Future
    • "I'm Not From Here" Series
    • Art Shechet: The AI Revolution: Promise and Peril
    • Brigitte Blom: Education and Economy
    • Healthy Aging with Bill Goodman & Dr. Jeff Foxx
    • James Branscome
    • The Art of the Originals
    • Gerald Smith: Racial Justice and Equality
    • Kevin Nance - Kentucky Literature
    • Tom Eblen: Kentucky Literature
    • RISE Documentary Series
    • Zach Brock: Music Interviews
    • Bill McCann: Theatre, Stage & Radio
    • Radio Plays
    • America's Flirtation with Authoritarianism
    • A Constitutional Debate
    • Chris Begley: Essays
    • Future Tense with Chris Begley
    • Jackie Jay & Kathi Kern: 19th Amendment 100 Years Later
    • Humans of Central Appalachia
    • SPJ Code of Ethics
    • Reggie Van Stockum: Exploring Kentucky's Backroads
  • Contact
  • Arts
    • Music Interviews
    • Undermain
    • Arts Connect's Art Throb Podcast

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Artemis II lifts off on lunar fly-by mission.

This week on Eastern Standard: Episode 33 of our series, “Democracy Optimist” with Joshua Douglas

As co-founder of the Lexington-based aerospace and biotechnology company Space Tango, and founder or the organization “Humanity in Deep Space,” Kris Kimel is tuned-in as preparations are underway to resume manned space exploration. How will Kentucky be involved? Kimel shares details of a “Kentucky Space Summit” in Lexington on November 13.

How is AI in the classroom working out? Lisa Blue, Director of AI Strategies at Eastern Kentucky University walks us through the challenges and advantages being encountered by faculty. And Dr. Blue also offers some examples of AI agents run amok. It’s the latest in the Art Shechet series, “The AI Revolution: Promise and Peril.”

British journalist Guy Kiddey arranged to rent a Harley-Davidson motorcycle in Nashville for a tour of the American South, producing a podcast series along the way to document his conversations with the people he is meeting along the way.  Kiddey, who has reported for The Economist, as well as the BBC and other international media, has made stops in central and eastern Kentucky. Listen to the impressions he is sharing with his U.K. audience. 

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