2016
Perpetual Notion Machine
4:30 pm Saturdays

~30 min. programs from the Science Collective of WORT
on contemporary scientific issues and discoveries for non-scientists
Broadcast
Date
Program
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Creation
Date
1/2/16 Christmas Cheery From Shakhashiri 12/4/15
1/9/16 Kenji Yoshino: Tinkering, Making, And Microscopes 11/19/15
1/16/16 Loriann Wunder: Sexually Transmitted Diseases - Problems And Solutions 12/31/15
1/23/16 Science/Environment Positions Of Presidential Candidates 1/7/16
1/30/16 Soren Wheeler: Curiosity, Science, Journalism, And Radiolab 1/14/16
2/6/16 Krishanu Saha: Gene Editing 1/21/16
2/13/16 Tristan L'Ecuyer: Satellites, Clouds, And The Greenland Ice Sheet 1/28/16
2/20/16 Anders Zanichkowsky: Art In The Arctic - February 4, 2016 2/4/16
2/27/16, 3/5/16* Tyson Cook: Clean Power Plan And Our Energy Future 2/11/16
3/12/16 Krishanu Saha, Lynn Nyhart: The Risks Of Gene Editing 2/18/16
3/19/16, 3/26/16,
4/2/16*
Radiolab Kind Of Pledge Drive 3/3/16
4/9/16 Lucas Miller: The Singing Zoologist 3/17/16
4/16/16 Peter Timbie: Discovery Of Gravitational Waves 3/31/16
4/23/16 Water 4/7/16
4/30/16, 5/7/16* Cure: The Science Of Mind Over Body; An Interview With Dr. Jo Marchant 4/14/16
5/14/16 Austin Jeffries, Patrick Cummings: Hyperloop And UW-Madison's BadgerLoop Team 4/21/16
5/21/16 Alexandra Witze, Jeff Kanipe: Science Writing And Volcanoes 4/28/16
5/28/16 Diversity in the sciences 5/12/16
6/4/16 Algorithms To Live By; An Interview With Dr. Tom Griffiths 5/19/16
6/11/16 Kelsey Amundson, Elizabeth Ward: Nuclear Power 5/26/16
6/18/16 Jennifer Ackerman: A Bird Brain 6/9/16
7/2/16 Jennifer Ackerman: The Genius Of Birds 6/16/16
7/9/16 Greg Budney: Wildlife recordings 6/23/16
7/16/16 The Mind Club: Who Thinks, What Feels, And Why It Matters; A Conversation With Professor Kurt Gray 6/30/16
7/23/16 Calvin Cherry: Music From Motion 7/7/16
7/30/16Abigail Cantor: City of Madison Tap Water 7/14/16
8/6/16 Ken Bradbury: Madison's Groundwater 7/21/16
8/13/16 Cynthia Fu, Jessica Barrett: Depression: What The Latest Research Has To Say 7/28/16
8/20/16 Kevin Connors, Dea Larsen Converse: Madison's Surface Water 8/11/16
8/27/16 Consciousness And Science: A Discussion With Dr. Kate Noble 8/18/16
9/3/16 The Big Picture; An Interview With Professor Sean Carroll 8/25/16
9/10/16 Lori Bessler: Science of genealogy 9/1/16
9/17/16 Dr James Hickey: A Groundbreaking Study Of Sakurajima Volcano 9/15/16
9/24/16 Language, To Inform and Persuade - March 24, 2016 3/24/16
10/1/16 Sean Carroll: The Big Picture pt 2 8/25/16
10/8/16 Jacqueline Goldstein: Radio Astronomy 9/29/16
10/15/16 Julie Dawson: Seed to Kitchen Collaborative 10/6/16
10/22/16 Travis Tangen: Preview Of The Wisconsin Science Festival 10/13/16
10/29/16 Trisha Andrew: Flexible Solar Cells 10/20/16
11/5/16 The Mind Club With Professor Kurt Gray, Pt 2 6/30/16
11/12/16 20th Anniversary Episode 11/10/16
11/19/16 Tor Odden: Sense-Making In Physics Education 11/17/16
11/26/16 Richard Muller, Seth Lloyd: Time, Travel, And Teleportation From "Big Picture Science" 11/24/16
12/3/16 Steve Powers: Ecology Under Lake Ice 12/1/16
12/10/16 Ecosystem services in Madison 12/8/16
12/17/16 Tim Schmit: GOES-R And Other Weather Satellites 12/15/16
12/24/16 Nick Miller, Matt Dallman: Climate Change And "The Nature Conservancy" 12/22/16
12/31/16 Phil Plait: New Years And The Earth's Orbit 12/29/16

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