You’ve probably heard the story: in 2014, two twelve-year-old girls in Waukesha, Wisconsin attempted to stab their classmate to death because they feared a shadowy online figure called “Slenderman.” The […]
Suicides
Tonight, the Perpetual Notion Machine discusses a very somber subject, suicide. Deciding to end one’s own life has been with us, probably, forever. But, we want to know some of […]
Charles Monroe-Kane, “Lithium Jesus: A Memoir of Mania”
Madison BookBeat – Madison authors, topics, book events and publishers Stu Levitan welcomes the award-winning producer and interviewer of Wisconsin Public Radio’s nationally syndicated To The Best Of Our Knowledge, […]
The Riddle of Mental Illness
Tonight, the Perpetual Notion Machine looks into a new book that asks the question: “What is mental illness?” The book is called How the Brain Lost Its Mind: Sex, Hysteria, […]
Depression: What the latest research has to say
This week on PNM we’re putting the spotlight on depression. A study published in 2014 by the Center for Disease Control concluded that from 2009-2012 7.6% of Americans age 12 […]
