Tonight’s edition of the Perpetual Notion Machine has a preview of this year’s Wisconsin Science Festival. Yes, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the science festival will still be going on with about half the usual number of sessions. Most will be virtual, with some actually going live, and a few at various places around the state […]
WiSciFest and Science in Movies
Tonight, the Perpetual Notion Machine has another group discussion with a few of the PNM nerds. In attendance are Kelly Schwartz, Aryel Clarke, Matt Blackburn, and Dennis Shaffer. First, Kelly gives us a preview of the Wisconsin Science Festival, running today, October 17, through Sunday, October 20. This is not just in Madison, but all […]
Mapping Contagion Clouds at the Wisconsin Science Festival
For seven years, the Wisconsin Science Festival has been engaging communities of all ages to learn and discover scientific theories and principles in Wisconsin. Now in it’s eighth year, the festival hopes to bring even more knowledge, creativity, innovation to our local residents by taking educational science events to Capitol Square and all around Wisconsin. […]
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 […]
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 […]
