Indigenous people say cultural survival means self-determination and inherent human rights. It means connections to land, language, spiritual traditions, and artistic expression. Those ideas are taken from the stated vision […]
Life on Earth and Other Planets
In general, everybody probably believes that life exists somewhere else on another planet. Our telescopes keep getting better and better at finding exoplanets orbiting other star systems. And a few […]
Hmong Culture and Language Access
Today on the show, Wednesday host Ali Muldrow is joined by Brenda Yang, a local educator and advocate for Asian American culture and language access in Madison. They talk about […]
Serendib Kitchen: Sri Lankan American Cooking
With Thanksgiving on the horizon and feasting on our minds, today we spend the hour with professor and food blogger Mary Anne Mohanraj, who recently published A Feast of Serendib, […]
Speaking Accents and Dialects
Tonight, the Perpetual Notion Machine examines the many intricacies of spoken accents, that is, how people speak and pronounce words and phrases in different parts of the country, but we […]
Round Table on the N-Word
The firing (and later reinstatement) of security guard Marlon Anderson by Madison Metropolitan School District for repeating a racial slur in an educational moment with a student has ignited a […]