Tonight, the Perpetual Notion Machine welcomes Travis Tangen as our guest to give us a preview of this year’s Wisconsin Science Festival. The festival runs from Thursday, October 20 to Sunday, October 23, with over 200 events scheduled throughout the state. Travis works as the Education and Outreach Manager at WARF, the Wisconsin Alumni Research […]
Wisconsin Science Festival: October 20-23rd
The Wisconsin Science Festival starts this Thursday, October 20th and runs until Sunday, October 23rd, featuring events at 86 different venues in 36 communities across Wisconsin. Some of the highlights this year include: snapshots of Wisconsin Wildlife, a whole series of lectures entitled “talk nerdy to me,” a robot zoo, the ever-popular Gong-Show themed “Big […]
Google Earth for the Body
We can access multi-scale images of the earth, to visualize massive continents and zoom into tiny cars parked in our driveway. However, we lack the technology to visualize the entire human body and zoom into a particular cell of interest. Eight O’Clock Buzz host Brian Standing talks to University of Wisconsin Biomedical Engineer Melissa Skala […]
Box Brown on illustrating the creation of Tetris
Tetris has attained Monopoly-esque status as a standard bearer within the videogame canon, universally known by grandmas and disrespecting, Gameboy-ignorant youths alike. But the history of how the game escaped a Russian psychology-focused computing center via questionable legal channels and landed in a three-way corporate rights battle is anything but standard. The “illegal” black Tengen […]
Experience Science Excitement: Wisconsin Science Festival
The latest edition of the Wisconsin Science Festival takes place November 2nd through November 5th. Combining hands-on activities, demonstrations and lectures, the fest seeks to get people all over the state excited about science. The festival grows every year, and this year, has events in dozens of locations around Wisconsin. Laura Heisler directs all of […]
Big Data and the Wisconsin Science Festival
In this episode of the Perpetual Notion Machine, PNM reporter Will Cushman previews the Wisconsin Science Festival, which runs Thursday, Nov. 2 to Sunday, Nov. 5 at various venues around the state. Some events include the Robot Zoo, Plasma Physics, the Birds of Wisconsin, the Science of Brewing, and Science Policy, to name but a […]