WORT 89.9FM Madison · Farewell To The Leap Second Human beings have an obsession with regularity. We like neat squares, right angles and intervals of time that are precisely the […]
Living in Hurricane Alley
It’s only May, but 2021’s first Atlantic cyclone — subtropical storm Ana — has already begun gyrating northeast of Bermuda. With another hurricane season underway, coastal communities, many still reeling […]
Antarctica, Icebergs, and Climate
In this Earth Day edition of the Perpetual Notion Machine, we head to a remote part of the globe, Antarctica. Our guests include Matthew Lazzara, meteorologist at the Antarctic Meteorological […]
GOES-16 Now Active
Just last month the Perpetual Notion Machine repeated a show about the GOES-R (now GOES-16) weather satellite that was launched in November. That satellite has just gone “live,” and started […]
Weather Satellites Do-over
Tonight, PNM aired a do-over of our show on weather satellites, specifically, the GOES-16 satellite, which will be up-and-running within a couple weeks. On December 15, 2016, WORT went “dark” […]
Satellites, Clouds, and the Greenland Ice Sheet
On Thursday, January 28, PNM reporter Matthew Zmudka interviewed Tristan L’Ecuyer, Associate Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison. The show focused on recently-published […]