August is the best time to see the Perseid meteor shower, as our planet crosses the path of the Comet Swift-Tuttle.

With the start of school right around the corner, districts are weighing whether or not to require teachers and staff get vaccinated before entering classrooms. We hear from Boston Teachers Union President Jessica Tang and WBUR education reporter Carrie Jung.

Plus, we take your questions on viruses, vaccines, and variants on another edition of "Ask The Doctors," then we speak with Kelly Beatty, Senior Editor of Sky & Telescope Magazine about the Perseid meteor shower.

We take listener questions with Dr. Davidson Hamer, infectious diseases physician at Boston Medical Center. And Dr. Shira Doron, infectious disease physician and hospital epidemiologist at Tufts Medical Center.

With a few weeks of summer left to enjoy, we take listener calls and talk about what's on our summer reading lists with Jennifer De Leon, an author and editor of Wise Latinas, and Rachel Cass, head buyer for the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge.

After every census, the state redraws the lines for our precincts and and districts. How those lines get drawn can be critical for representation, and for who gets elected.

We talk with Peter Frumhoff, director of Science and Policy and Chief Climate Scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Cambridge-based non profit.

Plus, could delays in 2020 census data lead to changes in where and who you vote for? We discuss with Boston Globe reporter Emma Platoff, and Beth Huang, an organizer for Drawing Democracy Coalition.

We take listener calls on the tensions tensions around what to require, and when, in this pandemic in terms of masking and vaccines.

Businesses across the state are weighing the pros and cons of requiring their employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.