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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Preview of the Wisconsin Science Festival
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 […]