Tonight, the Perpetual Notion Machine looks back on some of our best shows for the year 2020. We don’t usually do this for our last show of the year, but this year has been so debilitating, caustic, and just plain pathetic. Maybe, starting tomorrow, things can change, even for just a little bit. During this […]
UW-Madison Professor Paul Hutson on psychedelic medications
Oregon will become the first state in the country to legalize psilocybin with the passage of Measure 109 in the November election. Multiple cities have decriminalized the substance, but Oregon will become the first to permit supervised use statewide. Paul Hutson is a professor at the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy and is an expert on […]
REGN Clinical Trials
Tonight’s episode of the Perpetual Notion Machine continues the discussion of COVID-19 to a set of clinical trials being administered by UW-Madison and UW Health. Vaccines may be the best way of combating this pandemic, and several appear to be on the cusp of clinical trials. However, in the meantime, some drug cocktails could also […]
COVID-19 and the Immune System
Back on June 25, the Perpetual Notion Machine learned a little about the immune system – how it works, the organs and cells, that it can remember previous infections, and what triggers an immune response. Our guest was Matt Reynolds, an immunologist in pathobiological sciences at UW-Madison. Tonight, Matt is back to extend our conversation […]