Stuart Zechman and Jay Ackroyd discuss the present and future of liberalism in a centrist America. Recorded earlier in the day. No call-ins.

Joan is Senior Policy Editor at Daily Kos. Digby is, well, digby.

Jay Ackroyd talks with Kendra Pierre-Louis about Green Washed: Why We Can't Buy Our Way to a Green Planet

“If only we could buy our way (or recycle our way!) out of our environmental troubles. But as this slim and powerful book makes clear, what we need even more than clean cars are clean politics and economics that let us make sensible structural choices”—Bill McKibben, author, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

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From the VS Science archives, produced in cooperation with MICA, the Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics:Tom Levensontalks with Science Historian Naomi Oreskes, author of "Merchants of Doubt, How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco to Global Warming," about Big Tobacco, climate science, the establishment of scientific consensus and the role and character of scientific dissent. Follow @TomLevenson

Dave Johnson talks with Joshua Holland, editor and senior writer at AlterNet and author of The 15 Biggest Lies About the Economy: And Everything else the Right Doesn't Want You to Know About Taxes, Jobs and Corporate America Plus The Z Files. Follow @dcjohnson @joshuahol

Stuart Zechman and Jay Ackroyd discuss intellectual property, border seizures of the laptops of American citizens and Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator's 2011 report http://1.usa.gov/HvtFaJ (pdf)

Your special holiday VSS team, Avedon and Jay are back for Easter Sunday.  We'll discuss the pagan traditions that underlie our Christian celebrations.  Or something.

Jay Ackroyd talks with Kevin Gosztola, FDL’s Wikileaks expert and premiere blogger for all things Occupy. They discuss the context for understanding what is happening to Bradley Manning. Follow @kgosztola @JayAckroyd

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Feeling down about spaceflight? Lift your spirits with Yuri's Night. MSNBS.com's Alan Boyle talks with Veronica Zabala-Aliberto, Dir of Marketing for Yuri's Night 2012, about spaceflight's past and future. Pre-show interview at Cosmic Log.

VS Science is produced in cooperation with MICA, the Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics.

Spocko and Mike Stark talk about advocacy and activism