All Sides with Amy Juravich

This episode originally aired on Oct. 22, 2020. This October offers up some spectacular naked-eye views of our brightest planetary neighbors, such as Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn. But the star of the show is Mars, which swoops in for its closest approach to Earth until 2035.

This episode originally aired on Oct. 28, 2020. More Ohioans, 2.2 million, have already cast their vote this election, surpassing the 2016 early vote count of 1.8 million. Voting by absentee ballot has doubled from 2016, and voting in person has more than tripled from four years ago.

More than 73 million Americans have cast their ballots early in this high-stakes presidential election taking place in the midst of a pandemic. President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are campaigning in states they need to win ahead of Tuesday’s election.

This episode originally aired on September 24, 2020. The pandemic has changed everything, including our language. Words that we never used before have become commonplace, and in some cases, new words have been created to describe new experiences.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists as “high risk” the traditional Halloween activity of collecting candy handed out door to door. The COVID-19 pandemic has led many central Ohio communities and parents to reimagine Beggar’s night festivities with a focus on prevention.

More Ohioans, 2.2 million, have already cast their vote this election, surpassing the 2016 early vote count of 1.8 million. Voting by absentee ballot has doubled from 2016, and voting in person has more than tripled from four years ago.

An artificial intelligence service that’s free and available on the web can transform clothed images of women into nudes with life-like accuracy, including breasts and genitalia. The so-called deepfakes are made without the women’s consent. And their faces are clearly visible.

The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at The Ohio State University has embarked on a fundraising campaign to preserve its collection of ice core samples for future generations of scientists. Like rings of a tree, the frozen cylinders provide a climatological record stretching back hundreds of thousands of years.

In 2016, Donald Trump won the state of Ohio by eight percentage points. This time around, the Buckeye State is a real tossup, attracting the candidates and their ilk to make their pitches in the final days before the Nov. 3 election.

The human nose is a powerful tool that provides crucial information about the sea of scents that surround us. Our sense of smell has taken on new importance during the pandemic, with temporary loss of olfactory sense being a common symptom of COVID-19.