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Human Powered

Wisconsin Humanities

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Humanity Unlocked, the second season from Human Powered, is a podcast about the power of the humanities in Wisconsin prisons. From a storytelling workshop at Oak Hill Correctional Facility to a poetry workshop with people who were formerly incarcerated to a conversation with writers and editors of prison newspapers, we are digging into the importance of the humanities as tools for searching for meaning and understanding. And check out our first season to explore Wisconsin together to hear in ...
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MICROCOLLEGE is an exploration of the crisis in higher education and the innovative projects and thinkers working to address it, with a special focus on the human-scaled, place-based, meaning-oriented learning communities we call "microcolleges." The podcast is hosted by Jacob Hundt, Founder of Thoreau College, a microcollege initiative rooted in the Driftless Region of rural southwestern Wisconsin, and inspired by the model of Deep Springs College, the pedagogy of the Waldorf schools, and t ...
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All the Rage is a monthly podcast from Drs. Ryan Martin and Chuck Rybak at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. From toxic masculinity to internet trolls to human trafficking, All the Rage covers all topics related to anger and violence.
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Anna and Alissa discuss true crime and paranormal stories in the midwest: specifically in Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa and sometimes other states are thrown in, too!
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Walking with Wigwam

Linda Kennedy Torstensson

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Welcome to Walking with Wigwam. Walking is one of the easiest and most accessible forms of exercise yet often overlooked. We all know the benefits, both mental & physical, of getting outside and getting some exercise, it's a positive way to start the day and a way of relaxing & winding down at the end of the day. Some of us i.e. dog owners have no choice in the matter. The human body is designed to walk & run, just add Wigwam socks. Wigwam have been crafting socks in Sheboygan, Wisconsin sin ...
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Across the Sky

Lee Enterprises

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The Lee Weather Team hosts a fast-paced weekly podcast that tackles hot topics (and cold!) plus what’s trending in meteorology, science and climate. The show isn't limited to hard science as our hosts and guests tug at your emotions from stories out in the elements. The Lee Weather team features Matt Holiner of Lee Enterprises' Midwest group in Chicago, Kirsten Lang of the Tulsa World in Oklahoma, Joe Martucci of the Press of Atlantic City, N.J., and Sean Sublette of the Richmond Times-Dispa ...
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LatinMassKenosha

LatinMassKenosha

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Our Lady of Mount Carmel 1919 54th Street Kenosha, Wisconsin Noon on Sundays: Low Mass with Benediction on the 1st Sunday of the month. All others are the High Mass. 8:30 AM on Saturdays: Low Mass with Benediction and First Saturday Devotion on the 1st Saturday All others Low Mass.
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WBEZ's global affairs program. Featuring in-depth conversations about international issues and their local impact. Also, foreign film reviews and human rights commentaries. Hosted by Jerome McDonnell. This podcast is free, in mp3, and updated weekdays.
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Technically A Conversation

Technically A Conversation

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A podcast for curious people, by curious people. Every week we take turns presenting a new topic, and the other host has no idea what the topic will be. We strive to entertain and educate in a way that’s loose and fun! Our topics are all over the place, from light and funny to dark and sometimes spooky. Parental Advisory Warning: We might use strong language. https://www.TechnicallyAConversation.com/
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Listen to real stories told by real people from the English-speaking world. From forces of nature in the American wilderness to bilingual name finding in Hong Kong – join native speakers on their adventures in a learner-friendly format to help improve your English step-by-step. Also, we’d love to hear what you think of the podcast. Send us an email at podcasting@babbel.com and remember to mention “English Trips” in the subject line.
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A Walking Audio Tour of the Spiritual Geography of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Funded in part by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation, the opinions expressed in this walking audio tour are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation. Thank you for listening to Spirit & Stone, an audio tour of the historical and geographical heart of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This tour highlights some of this historic campus's rich re ...
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We're a cooperative rooted in 100-years of forward-thinking. We're a different kind of company, grounded in a common cause ever since our founding in 1921 we have remained a cooperative. Land O'Lakes, Inc. is placing its owners, both farmers and local retailers at the heart of creating a sustainable food future. Join host Kim Olson for stories, interviews, and insight - welcoming new guests on each monthly episode. Production copyright 2024 Land O'Lakes, Inc. Formerly "Something Greater."
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Yearbook Chat with Jim

Walsworth Yearbooks with host Jim Jordan

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Behind every yearbook is a great story, and Jim Jordan is exploring those stories. Join Jim as he interviews the people behind the yearbook in Yearbook Chat with Jim, part of the Walsworth Yearbooks Podcast Network (WYPN). From new advisers who just made it through their first year, to long-time yearbook lovers looking at retirement, Yearbook Chat with Jim shows the human side of creating a yearbook.
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Did you know you can change the way you age? If you're like the patients I see in my medical practice, you want to feel better, live healthier, look better, and improve your cognitive function to feel great inside and out. This podcast contains medical content focused on changing the way you age. So, what will you manifest? Health & vitality or aging with disease? To optimize your body and brain, I share insights from Functional, Cellular, and Regenerative Medicine. Let me help you create th ...
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The Wellness School is a Wisconsin state-approved, diploma-granting school that offers a Clinical Massage Therapy Program for students who want to obtain their Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT) credential. The Mission of The Wellness School is to empower individuals to thrive by providing transformational experiences and to elevate the Massage Therapy profession. The Wellness School does this by creating and delivering exceptional educational programs. Currently, the school awards Diplomas in ...
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News reports warn of rising sea levels spurred by climate change. Waters inch ever higher, disrupting delicate ecosystems and threatening island and coastal communities. The baseline for these measurements—sea level—may seem unremarkable, a long-familiar zero point for altitude. But as Dr. Wilko Graf von Hardenberg reveals, the history of defining …
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Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development (U Wisconsin Press, 2023) tells the story of the entanglement of politics and technology during Indonesia's rapid post-World War II development. As a central part of its nation-building project, the Indonesian state sought to supply electricity to the entire country, brin…
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What can sound technologies tell us about our relationship to media as a whole? This is one of the central questions in the research of Phantom Power‘s host, Mack Hagood. To find its answer, he studies devices that get little attention from media scholars: noise-cancelling headphones, white noise machines, apps that make nature sounds, tinnitus mas…
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Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Meryl Alper, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, about her recent book, Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2023). In addition to being a professor, Alper is also an educational researcher who has worked over the past 20 year…
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Wisconsin Death Trip is a 1999 movie by director James Marsh based on the book by the same name by Michael Lesy. The film features reenactments of violent crimes, murders, mental illness, depression, and vandalism that are reported and dismissed as quickly as the newspaper articles that wrote about the incidents that took place in Black River Falls…
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From Hélène Jawhara Piñer, Gourmand World Cookbook Award-winning author of Sephardi: Cooking the History, comes a collection of 125 meticulously crafted recipes showcasing the enduring flavors that define Sephardic culinary heritage. Matzah and Flour: Recipes from the History of the Sephardic Jews (Cherry Orchard Books, 2024) offers a tantalizing e…
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In Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860 (University of New Mexico Press, 2023), historian Dr. Michael J. Alarid examines New Mexico's transition from Spanish to Mexican to US control during the nineteenth century and illuminates how emerging class differences played a crucial role in the regime change. After …
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Over the last two decades, the United States has supported a range of militias, rebels, and other armed groups in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Critics have argued that such partnerships have many perils, from enabling human rights abuses to seeding future threats. Policy makers, however, have sought to mitigate the risks of partnering with irregul…
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Which society was the first to domesticate the horse? It’s a difficult question. The archaeological record is spotty, with only very recent advancements in genetics and carbon dating allowing scientists to really test centuries-old legends about where horses came from. For example, historians argued that the Botai civilization in Kazakhstan provide…
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In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more than a third of the land surface of the planet. These sprawling empires encompassed not only rainforests, deserts, and savannahs but also some of the world’s most magnificent rivers, lakes, marshes, and seas. Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Coloni…
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This week Zorba and Karl discuss how children’s food pickiness may be pre-disposed, and they talk about why black women are more likely to undergo unnecessary C-sections. Plus, they share […]Wisconsin Public Radio tarafından oluşturuldu
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40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World (Ivy Press, 2024) by Dr. Alistair Bonnett is a meticulously curated selection of 40 maps that spans the ages, from ancient parchment scrolls to cutting-edge digital creations. Each map is a window into a different facet of our world, shedding light on the complex interplay of geography, geopolitics, ar…
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Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power from governments themselves. Facial recognition firms track citizens for police surveillance. Cryptocurrency has wiped out the personal savings of millions and threatens the stability of the global fi…
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Perceptions of the United States as a nation of immigrants are so commonplace that its history as a nation of emigrants is forgotten. However, once the United States came into existence, its citizens immediately asserted rights to emigrate for political allegiances elsewhere. Quitting the Nation: Emigrant Rights in North America (UNC Press, 2024) r…
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The Ouija Board has long been thought of as a tool to conjure spirits and evil, but most people nowadays realize it’s just a toy made by Hasbro. Despite that, the stigma of it being used for occult practices is something that many people still can’t shake off. This week our Super Friend Eli will share the history of the Ouija Board with us, what it…
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In the US we are nearing four million road deaths since we began counting them in 1899. The numbers are getting worse in recent years, yet we continue to accept these deaths as part of doing business. There has been no examination of why we engineer roads that are literally killing us. In Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that S…
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The 13 essays collected in Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth: Essays on the Habitations of Tolkien's Legendarium (Mythopoeic Press, 2024) foreground processes of making and constructing Arda -- either within the Secondary world or for readers/viewers -- and thus continually assert that the habitations form a vital part of the tales within that…
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What is it like to be a human rights lawyer in Thailand? How does the new generation of 2020s political activists differ from those of previous eras? In this episode of Talking Thai Politics, we talk to Kunthika Nutcharut about her work with Thai Lawyers for Human Rights. Kunthika comes from a political family – her lawyer father Krisadang Nutcharu…
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The South China enclave of Macau was the first and last European colonial settlement in East Asia and a territory at the crossroads of different empires. In Neutrality and Collaboration in South China: Macau during the Second World War (Cambridge UP, 2023), Helena F. S. Lopes analyses the layers of collaboration that developed from neutrality in Ma…
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Just like the words Jesus spoke to the paralyzed man were surprising to him and his friends, the original fairytale of Cinderella is surprising. She forgives her wicked sisters and invites them to live with her in the palace. To be forgiven is to have a happy ever after, THE happy every after: the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. …
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In 1997, a group of white pro-life evangelical Christians in the United States created the nation’s first embryo adoption program to “save” the thousands of frozen human embryos remaining from assisted reproduction procedures, which they contend are unborn children. While a small part of US fertility services, embryo adoption has played an outsized…
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A clarion call for justice in the quest for clean energy California’s Salton Sea region is home to some of the worst environmental health conditions in the country. Recently, however, it has also become ground zero in the new “lithium gold rush”—the race to power the rapidly expanding electric vehicle and renewable energy storage market. The immens…
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