2024
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
1/6/24 Curiosity 1/4/24
1/13/24 It's Good to be Curious 1/11/24
1/20/24 Loriann Wunder: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Problems And Solutions
(repeated from 1/16/16)
12/31/15
1/27/24 Soren Wheeler: Curiosity, Science, Journalism, and
Radiolab
(repeated from 1/30/16)
1/14/16
2/3/24 In the Wake of Sea Level Rise 1/26/24a
2/10/24 David Sedlak: Water for All - pt 1 2/8/24
2/17/24 David Sedlak: Water for All: Global Solutions for a Changing Climate pt 22/15/24
2/24/24 Polar Vortexes Explained, with Professor Andrea Lopez Lang 2/22/24
3/2/24 Andrew Hahn: Data Visualization Using Fabric2/29/24
3/9/24 Henry Reich, Brady Haran: Science Cinema9/21/12b
3/16/24 Eric Carson: The Glacial Geology of the Driftless Area 3/14/24
3/23/24 Space Tomatoes, How Plants Grow Without Gravity with Dr. Simon Gilroy3/21/24
3/30/24 Pig Kidney Transplanted into Human with Dr. Dixon Kaufman3/28/24
4/6/24 Fossil Librarian Kallie Moore on Speaking Science 4/4/24
4/13/24 Eric Carson: The Geology of the Driftless Area in Wisconsin 4/11/24
4/20/24 Kevin Bachhuber: Edible insects 4/18/24
4/27/24 Francisco Pelegri: The Great Lakes Biobank: DNA preservation to save threatened species4/25/24
5/4/24 Tom Wahl, Kathy Dice: Farming with fruit and nut trees 5/2/24
5/11/24 Science News Roundup pt 1 - hosted by Chali Pittman 5/9/24
5/18/24 Science News Roundup pt 2 - hosted by Chali Pittman 5/16/24
5/25/24 Jason Granberg: Invasive Species in Wisconsin 5/23/24
6/1/24 Adam D'Angelo: Project Pawpaw - hosted by Jacob Grace 5/30/24
6/8/24 Science News Roundup 6/6/24
6/15/24 The Mississippi Watershed: Connecting Water and People3/17/24c
6/22/24 Travis Wilson: Fresh Water Fish Tanks 6/20/24
6/29/24 Professor Randy Goldsmith on new technique to unlock a molecule's "unprecedented detail"
- hosted by Matthew Leeford
6/27/24
7/6/24 Brian Counselman: Experiential and Project Based Teaching - hosted by Matthew Leeford7/4/24
7/13/24 Joshua Kapfer, Donald Brown: Amphibians and Reptiles of Wisconsin pt 2 (repeated from 11/26/22)11/24/22
7/20/24 Science/Environment Positions Of Presidential Candidates (in 2016) (repeated from 1/23/16) 1/7/16
7/27/24 A Conversation with USDA Forester Karl Welch 7/25/24
8/3/24 "Is This Really A Dairy Farm?" Ask-a-Farmer with Greg Galbraith - hosted by Jacob Grace12/2/22
8/10/24 Fire Lab research8/8/24
8/17/24 Pete Hardin: "Cheddar, It Isn't;" Dairy Alternatives and Food Labeling Laws - hosted by Bert Zipperer8/5/24d
8/24/24 Pete Hardin: "Butter is back" as consumption increases and perceptions change - hosted by Bert Zipperer7/8/24d
8/31/24 Liz & Nate Brownlee, Matt Smith, Darren and Espri Bender-Beauregard, Scott Brainard, Eliza Greenman: Agroforestry
- hosted by Jacob Grace
2024
9/7/24 Dr. Edgar Spalding on Dragonflies, Damselflies, and Citizen Science9/5/24
9/14/24 What Makes Beer Better 9/12/24
9/21/24 Jeff Potter, Gary Stadtmauer: Cooking for Geeks11/12/10b
10/5/24 Designing effective maps 9/26/24
10/12/24 Samantha Mulrooney: Wisconsin Science Festival 10/10/24
10/19/24 Stefania Cartoni Casamitjana: Incorporating goats into invasive species management planning10/17/24
10/26/24 James Lattis: Chasing the Stars 10/24/24
11/2/24 Jennifer Redell: Bats in Wisconsin 10/31/24
11/9/24 Allison Jacoby, Ben Konkel: Mid Tropic Weather 10/3/24
11/16/24 Erin Giese, Tony Kuchma: Land Restoration and Bird Monitoring at the Oneida Nation11/14/24
11/23/24 Dr. Shelby Ellison: Growing Hemp in Wisconsin 10/17/24
11/30/24 Pete Hardin: NYT Immigrant and Labor Issue - hosted by Bert Zipperer 11/19/24d
12/7/24 Dan Salas: Monarch Butterfly Conservation in Wisconsin - hosted by Catherine Garvens12/5/24
12/14/24 "Spreadsheets on the Radio" - Farm Viability and the Fruit & Nut Compass with John Hendrickson - hosted by Jacob Grace12/12/24
12/21/24 Chris Ordonez: Ocean robots 12/19/24
12/28/24 Dr James Hickey: A Groundbreaking Study Of Sakurajima Volcano (repeated from 9/17/16)9/15/16

a From With Good Reason
b From Skeptically Speaking (before its name change), Edmonton Alberta
c From Sprouts
d From The Milkweed on WORT
Perpetual Notion Machine 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023.