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Madison BookBeat
The Journey Within: Exploring Life and Nature in Wisconsin’s Parks
WORT 89.9FM Madison · Time, Beauty, and Grief, Betsy-Korbinyr_7-28-25 In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Lisa Malawski sits down with local author Betsy Korbinyr who is an award-winning author and retired social worker based in Madison, Wisconsin. With over 30 years of experience in hospice, medical, mental health, and school social work, she brings a deep understanding of aging, loss, and resilience to her writing. Her debut book, Time, Beauty, and Grief: A Hike Through Wisconsin’s 50 State Parks, is part memoir, part trail guide, and part reflection on growing older. Korbinyr set out to hike five miles in...
2025-07-29
46 min
Madison BookBeat
Dean Robbins, "Wisconsin Idols: 100 Heroes Who Changed The State, The World, And Me"
Robbins, Dean Transcript Stu Levitan welcomes the very successful author, editor, and broadcast personality, Dean Robbins to discuss his latest book, Wisconsin Idols, 100 Heroes Who Have Changed the State, the World, and Me, (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2025) . It's a collection of engaging short essays about 100 outstanding musicians, thinkers, actors, athletes, creators, and boundary-breakers who are either from Wisconsin, attended the UW, or did something special here, and who had an impact on Dean. People like the seven cover images -- Oprah Winfrey, basketball great and human rights activist Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (when he was still known as Lou Alcindor), comedian Chris...
2025-07-22
53 min
Madison BookBeat
Madison BookBeat Featured Steven Davis, Author of "The Other Public Lands"
On July 7th, Madison BookBeat host Bill Tishler welcomed Steven Davis, professor of political science at Edgewood University, to WORT 89.9 FM to discuss Davis’s new book, The Other Public Lands: Preservation, Extraction, and Politics on the Fifty States’ Natural Resource Lands (Temple University Press, 2025). While national parks and federally managed lands often dominate the conversation, Davis’s research highlights an often-overlooked category—nearly 200 million acres owned and managed by individual states. Drawing on extensive comparative analysis across all 50 states, he provided valuable insights into how these lands are governed, protected, and sometimes exploited. Davis also reflected on Wisconsin’s deep conse...
2025-07-18
52 min
MindHack
#094 - Sönke Ahrens - AI-Proof Your Brain: Smart Notes Strategy
The future of original thought is now. In an AI-driven world, how do you ensure your ideas remain uniquely yours? Dr. Sönke Ahrens, author of How to Take Smart Notes and creator of the accompanying online course How To Take Smart Notes with Obsidian, unveils the Zettelkasten method: a revolutionary "smart notes" strategy to AI-proof your brain. Discover how this system acts as your personal dialogue partner, transforming how you learn, think, and write. Dr. Ahrens reveals actionable insights to conquer information overload, beat writer's block, and spark groundbreaking ideas. Learn to build a ro...
2025-07-16
1h 15
Madison BookBeat
Kristina Amelong on accepting life (and death)'s mysteries in "What My Brother Knew"
On this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Sara Batkie talks with author Kristina Amelong about her debut memoir, What My Brother Knew (She Writes Press). As a boy, Jay Amelong predicted the accident that caused his death, down to the color of the car that hit him. "I will die young, while riding my bike," he told friends and family repeatedly. "It won't be much longer. I want you to be prepared." Baffling words to hear from the mouth of a content thirteen-year-old. When Kristina Amelong was only seventeen, her brother's tragic death unfolded exactly as he said it would...
2025-07-14
49 min
Madison BookBeat
Doug Moe, “Saving Hearts and Killing Rats: Karl Paul Link and the Discovery of Warfarin”
Stu Levitan welcomes the biographer of modern Madison, award-winning columnist Doug Moe, for a conversation about his latest book, Saving Hearts and Killing Rats: Karl Paul Link and the Discovery of Warfarin. It’s the first detailed look at one of the most important and most honored biochemists of the 20th century — the brilliant, unconventional, and seemingly bipolar University of Wisconsin scientist whose discoveries led to two synthetic compounds: the rat-killing Warfarin and the heart-saving Coumadin. And all because at the depths of the Great Depression a St. Croix farmer turned to his state government to learn why his cows...
2025-06-30
51 min
Madison BookBeat
Denise S. Robbins on states of emergency in her debut novel “The Unmapping”
On this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Sara Batkie talks with author Denise S. Robbins about her debut novel The Unmapping.There is no flash of light, no crumbling, no quaking. Each person in New York wakes up on an unfamiliar block after the buildings all switch positions overnight. The power grid has snapped, thousands of residents are missing, and the Empire State Building is on Coney Island—for now. The next night, it happens again.Esme Green and Arjun Varma work for the city of New York’s emergency management team and are tasked with...
2025-06-09
50 min
Madison BookBeat
Amb. Tom Loftus, “Mission to Oslo”
Stu Levitan interviews former U.S. Ambassador to Norway (1993-1997) Tom Loftus about his new book, Mission to Oslo, Dancing with the Queen, Dealmaking with the Russians, Shaping History (Mineral Point: Little Creek Press, 2024).Amb. Loftus served during a pivotal period in diplomatic and military history, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It was a time of optimism, but it was fraught with uncertainty, a time of particular concern in neighboring Norway. Amb. Loftus’s success helping forge the agreement among the U.S., Norway and the new Russia to start the clean-up of the nu...
2025-05-19
1h 30
Madison BookBeat
A Conversation with Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield—widely regarded as one of America’s greatest living poets—joins Madison Book Beat for a rich conversation about poetry, the natural world, and the human condition. The New York Times Magazine has called her work “some of the most important poetry in the world today,” and her latest collection, The Asking: New & Selected Poems, showcases the depth and range of a life devoted to lyrical inquiry.In this episode, host David Ahrens and guest co-host Heather Swan, a poet and faculty member at UW-Madison and the Nelson Institute, delve into the themes that define Hirshfield...
2025-05-14
50 min
Madison BookBeat
The Art of Community — And Book Discussions
A book club is a great way to build community—bringing people together around shared interests, while also introducing them to new perspectives and ideas.Today, Bill Tishler hosts his inaugural episode centered on community. Tishler, who is also a local elected official, has been hosting book clubs in his district. On today’s episode, four area residents join him in the WORT studio to share their thoughts on recent book clubs they participated in this year and how the books they read raised awareness about issues in our city.Those issues range from pedestrian and...
2025-05-02
52 min
Madison BookBeat
I Choose Joy: AJ Romriell on Wolves, Loving Yourself, and Exiting the Mormon Faith
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with AJ Romriell on his debut memoir Wolf Act (University of Wisconsin Press, 2025).Wolf Act is a “memoir in essays,” and these essays take on a variety of forms. The work is divided into three different Acts, and each act is made up of chapters that are both interlinked but can also stand on their own as well. While the majority of the prose is narrative nonfiction, there are a number of chapters that include lengthy lists, definition entries like you would find in a dictionary, as w...
2025-04-14
48 min
Madison BookBeat
New Wisconsin Poet Laureate Brenda Cárdenas on the mysteries and rewards of language
On this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Sara Batkie chats with Wisconsin Poet Laureate Brenda Cárdenas about her new position and the exciting plans she has in the works during her service.Brenda Cárdenas was born and raised in Milwaukee and has also lived in Beaver Dam, Appleton, Menasha, and Fond du Lac. She obtained her undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and a Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Creative Writing (Poetry) at the University of Michigan. She recently retired from a 35-year career teaching Creative Writing to students at every leve...
2025-04-07
51 min
Madison BookBeat
Sitting down with Madison Public Libraries Director Tana Elias
Tana Elias has more than three decades of experience at the Madison Public Library. After one year in the role, she’s “just settling in” to the position as Director of the MPL.Elias sits down with Madison Book Beat host David Ahrens for a conversation about the history, funding, services and evolution of the Madison Public Library system, which has nine libraries in the city, operates the mobile Dreambus service, and is now building an “Imagination Center” on the north side.Elias and Ahrens also take up the changing role of libraries in the digital ag...
2025-03-17
52 min
Madison BookBeat
Christine Wenc on the founding of "The Onion"
On this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Sara Batkie chats with author Christine Wenc about her new book Funny Because It’s True: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire.In 1988, a band of University of Wisconsin–Madison undergrads and dropouts began publishing a free weekly newspaper with no editorial stance other than “You Are Dumb.” Just wanting to make a few bucks, they wound up becoming the bedrock of modern satire over the course of twenty years, changing the way we consume both our comedy and our news. The Onion served as a hilarious and brutally...
2025-03-10
51 min
Madison BookBeat
On Jumping, Swimming, Sinking, and Floating: Poet Steven Duong Discusses His Debut Collection
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with Steven Duong on his debut poetry collection At the End of the World There is A Pond (Norton 2025)."Tell all the truth but tell it slant." Taking Emily Dickinson's dictum as a guiding principle, poet Steven Duong delivers a collection startlingly clear, formally innovative, and consistently funny. At the End of the World There is a Pond is divided into four sections–The Jumpers, The Swimmers, The Sinkers, The Floaters--and throughout each Duong explores themes of addiction, mental health, climate change, diaspora, and popular culture....
2025-03-03
54 min
Madison BookBeat
On Jumping, Swimming, Sinking, and Floating: Poet Steven Duong Discusses His Debut Collection
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with Steven Duong on his debut poetry collection At the End of the World There is A Pond (Norton 2025)."Tell all the truth but tell it slant." Taking Emily Dickinson's dictum as a guiding principle, poet Steven Duong delivers a collection startlingly clear, formally innovative, and consistently funny. At the End of the World There is a Pond is divided into four sections–The Jumpers, The Swimmers, The Sinkers, The Floaters--and throughout each Duong explores themes of addiction, mental health, climate change, diaspora, and...
2025-03-03
54 min
Madison BookBeat
Theresa Okokon on her memoir in essays "Who I Always Was"
On this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Sara Batkie chats with author Theresa Okokon about her debut memoir in essays, Who I Always Was.When Theresa Okokon was nine, her father traveled to his hometown in Nigeria to attend his mother’s funeral…and never returned. His mysterious death shattered Theresa as her family’s world unraveled. Now a storyteller and television cohost, Okokon sets out to explore the ripple effects of that profound loss and the way heartache shapes our sense of self and of the world—for the rest of our lives....
2025-02-10
51 min
Madison BookBeat
What Books Did You Like This Year?
As 2024 draws to a close, David Ahrens reflects on his bountiful year of reading. He's joined by Chali Pittman, Andrew Thomas, and callers throughout the hour to share their recommendations. New York Times bestseller James by Percival Everett is a clear favorite. It's a re-imagining of Huckleberry Finn from a distinctly different point of view. That's not the only retelling worth reading — Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver reimagines David Copperfield as well. Also recommended by David: The Lucky Ones, a memoir by Madison's own Sara Chowdhary, recounts a personal exper...
2024-12-23
53 min
Madison BookBeat
Zara Chowdhary on The Lucky Ones
Zara Chowdhary sits down with David Ahrens to talk about her exquisite memoir The Lucky Ones (Penguin, 2024).In 2002, Zara Chowdhary was sixteen years old and living with her family in Ahmedabad, India, when a train fire claimed the lives of sixty Hindu passengers — and upended the lives of millions of Muslims.Instead of taking her school exams that week, Zara is put under a three-month siege, with her family and thousands of others fearing for their lives as Hindu neighbors and friends transform overnight into bloodthirsty mobs, hunting and mass...
2024-12-16
53 min
Madison BookBeat
The Year in Books with Three Madison Booksellers
On this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Sara Batkie chats with Madison booksellers Iris Tobin from A Room of One’s Own, Hilary Burg from Mystery to Me, and Molly Fish from Lake City Books to see how their 2024 went. Take a listen to learn about the new releases they loved, event highlights from the past year, reads they recommend for people who want to get back into the habit, and what’s in store for them in 2025. And for those still doing some holiday shopping, stick around until the end to hear their order dead...
2024-12-09
53 min
Madison BookBeat
Imagining Beyond Prisons: On Books-to-Prisons Bans and Abolition Activism
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with folx from LGBT Books to Prisoners and A Room of One's Own bookstore on the Wisconsin Department of Corrections’ recently-implemented restrictions on book donations, the condition of prison libraries, and the current state of abolition activism.“On the whole, people tend to take prisons for granted. It is difficult to imagine life without them,” she continues. “At the same time, there is reluctance to face the realities hidden within them, a fear of thinking about what happens inside them. Thus, the prison is prese...
2024-12-02
52 min
Madison BookBeat
If You Don’t Deal With Your Past, It’s Still Your Present
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Lisa Malawski talks with local Madison author Tammy Borden. Tammy is a professional copywriter turned novelist. She has had a whirlwind of a year since releasing her novel, Waltraud. She has reached thousands of readers on 5 continents, had more than 70 speaking or book-related events, and approximately one thousand reviews! Waltraud was self-published by Tammy Borden in 2023. Waltraud is about a true story of Tammy’s mom growing up in Nazi Germany. Tammy grew up hearing her mom’s first-hand accounts of coming of age under Hilter’s regime...
2024-11-25
52 min
Madison BookBeat
Author and geologist Marcia Bjornerud on the rocks that made her
On this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Sara Batkie speaks with author, geologist, and Lawrence University professor Marcia Bjornerud about her new book, Turning to Stone.Earth has been reinventing itself for more than four billion years, keeping a record of its experiments in the form of rocks. Yet most of us live our lives on the planet with no idea of its extraordinary history, unable to interpret the language of the rocks that surround us. Geologist Marcia Bjornerud believes that our lives can be enriched by understanding our heritage on this old and c...
2024-11-11
47 min
Madison BookBeat
We Do Not Make Very Good Gods: Nature Critic Boyce Upholt on the Sinuous History of the Mississippi River
In his 1979 Whole Earth Catalog, Stewart Brand wrote, “We are as gods, so we might as well get good at it.” Based on his time on the Mississippi River, however, Boyce Upholt concludes “that we do not make very good gods.” In the final pages of The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi, Upholt reflects, “The river is an unappeasable god, and to react to it with fear and awe is not wrong. . . . Perhaps what people learn after thousands of years of living along one of the world’s greatest rivers is that change is inevitable, that chaos w...
2024-11-04
53 min
Locked On Zags - Daily Podcast On Gonzaga Bulldogs Basketball
2025 4-star Spencer Ahrens lists Gonzaga Bulldogs in top 6, is he the next Ben Gregg? | WPU Preview!
Mark Few and the Gonzaga Bulldogs missed out on Nik Khamenia in the 2025 recruiting class, and appear to have pivoted to another 6'9 stretch four in Spencer Ahrens, who listed the Zags in his top six alongside Illinois, Washington, Boise State, Stanford, and San Francisco.Ahrens' recruitment mirrors that of Ben Gregg, who was recruited heavily after the staff missed out on Paolo Banchero who went to....Duke, the same place as Khamenia. Both Gregg and Ahrens were late risers who stood out for their height and shot-making ability, and it's hard to ignore those parallels.
2024-10-30
28 min
Madison BookBeat
Observing Ann Garvin as an Author and a Human Being
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Lisa Malawski talks with local Madison author Ann Garvin.Ann Garvin became an author at age fifty. Ann Garvin Ph.D. is a nurse, a professor, and USA Today Bestselling Author. She thinks everything is funny and a little bit sad. Ann writes stories about people who do too much in a world that asks too much from them.Ann is the founder of the multiple award-winning Tall Poppy Writers where she is committed to helping women writers succeed. She is a...
2024-10-28
48 min
Madison BookBeat
Bob Wake & Diya Abbas, First-Place Fiction & Poetry Winners
Today on the show, incoming host Ella Saph speaks with the first-place winners in the 2024 Wisconsin People & Ideas Writing Contest. Cambridge writer Bob Wake took home the gold for his poem "Mending Ruth," and Madison poet Diya Abbas took home the prize for their poem “Al-Eashiq." Both will present at a reading next week at the Wisconsin Book Festival, which will feature all the winners of the statewide 2024 Fiction & Poetry Contests. That reading is on Tuesday, October 29 at 7pm at Central Library.About the guests: B...
2024-10-21
52 min
Madison BookBeat
Jane Rotunda and Jessica Calarco Preview the 2024 Wisconsin Book Festival
On this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Sara Batkie speaks with festival director Jane Rotunda and author Jessica Calarco about her book Holding It Together, ahead of Calarco’s appearance at the Wisconsin Book Festival on Thursday, October 17th.Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net chronicles the devastating consequences of our DIY society and traces its root causes by drawing together historical, media, and policy analyses and five years of Calarco’s original research. With surveys of 4,000 parents and more than 400 hours of interviews across the socioeconomic, racial, and political spectrum...
2024-10-14
53 min
Madison BookBeat
Novelist E.M. Tran on History, Humor, and a Superstitious Beauty Queen
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with E.M. Tran on her debut novel, Daughters of the New Year (2022, Hanover Square Press).Daughters of the New Year is a novel about the three Trung sisters and their mother. It’s also a novel about Vietnam and its long history of colonization at the hands of the Chinese, Japanese, and French. We catch glimpses of civil war and America’s devastating war in Vietnam. It’s a novel about diaspora and remembering an increasingly distant and fading homeland. It’s also a n...
2024-10-07
57 min
Madison BookBeat
Jennifer Kabat on the Importance of Solidarity in Unsettled Times
On this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Sara Batkie speaks with author Jennifer Kabat about her memoir The Eighth Moon from Milkweed Editions, ahead of Kabat’s appearance at A Room of One’s Own on Tuesday, September 10th.A rebellion, guns, and murder. When Jennifer Kabat moves to the Catskills, she has no idea it was the site of the Anti-Rent War, an early episode of American rural populism. As she forges friendships with her new neighbors and explores the countryside on logging roads and rutted lanes—finding meadows dotted with milkweed in bloom, saff...
2024-09-09
47 min
Madison BookBeat
A Raw and Tangible Discussion on Grieving the Loss of a Partnership
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Lisa Malawski talks with Kathleen Paris about her book Gentle Comforts For Women Grieving the Loss of a Beloved Life Companion.As an author, educator, and management consultant, Paris has assisted organizations over the past thirty years to plan for new realities and improve their systems and organizational climate. She currently holds the title of Distinguished Consultant Emeritus from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Paris has consulted in the United States and internationally in Canada, Cyprus, France,Guam, Switzerland, Virgin Islands, and the UK Kathleen lost...
2024-08-26
49 min
Madison BookBeat
Katharine Beutner talks about her Edna Ferber Award-winning novel Killingly
In this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Sara Batkie speaks with Milwaukee-based author Katharine Beutner about her Edna Ferber Award-winning novel, Killingly, which is out now in paperback from Soho Crime.Massachusetts, 1897: Bertha Mellish, “the most peculiar, quiet, reserved girl” at Mount Holyoke College, is missing. As a search team dredges the pond where Bertha might have drowned, her panicked father and sister arrive desperate to find some clue to her fate or state of mind. Bertha’s best friend, Agnes, a scholarly loner studying medicine, might know the truth, but she is being unhelpfull...
2024-08-12
52 min
Madison BookBeat
A Voice Both Austere and Intimate: Poet-Turned-Novelist Henry Wise on his Debut, Holy City
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with Henry Wise on his debut novel, Holy City (2024, Grove Atlantic Press).Holy City is a novel that grabs your attention by the opening sentence and propels you into a world of crime, guilt, unrealized desire, and vanquished hopes and dreams. The narrative shuttles between Richmond, Virginia–the eponymous Holy City–and the rural county of Euphoria. Anything but euphoric, it’s peopled by a cast of characters both burned out on the passage of time and not very optimistic about the present. We encount...
2024-08-05
49 min
Madison BookBeat
Robin and Joan Rolfs, Passionate About All Things Thomas Edison
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Lisa Malawski talks with Robin and Joan Rolfs about their book Hearthstone: America’s Electrical National Treasure.Joan and Rob have been enthralled with Hearthstone since the 1970’s when theymoved to the Fox Cities. Joan developed a successful Interior Design program at FoxValley Technical College in 1971.In 1986, Joan was contacted by a member of The Friends of Hearthstone Board andinvited to become involved with the restoration of Hearthstone. Rob was also invitedbe...
2024-07-22
49 min
Madison BookBeat
Poet Nikki Wallschlaeger Talks Getting The Rhythm Right In “Hold Your Own”
In her fourth collection, Driftless Area-based poet Nikki Wallschlaeger further proves herself as a singular poet of astonishing emotional depth and formal range. Hold Your Own is a steadfast search for peace, self-acceptance, and pleasure in a world that makes those basic rights an everyday challenge for Black women. It was published in May 2024 by Copper Canyon Press.Nikki joins host Sara Batkie for a conversation about getting the right rhythm, the joys of working with books every day, and the natural beauty of her home state.Nikki Wallschlaeger’s work h...
2024-07-08
49 min
Madison BookBeat
Author and publisher Richard Sweitzer on his own terms
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Lisa Malawski talks with Richard Sweitzer about his book ODE The Scion of Nerikan. Richard is award-winning author and longtime morning radio host. He received his Master’s of Arts degree in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.Richard is the author and publisher of ODE The Scion of Nerikan which was published in 2023. The book is about an immortal monster who is searching for a way to die, and the little girl who gives him reason to live...for a little longer.
2024-06-24
50 min
Madison BookBeat
Author Richard Scott Larson discusses his new memoir, "The Long Hallway"
Richard Scott Larson's debut The Long Hallway (University of Wisconsin Press, April 2024) is a lyrical memoir that expresses a boy’s search for identity while navigating the darkness and isolation of a deeply private inner world. Growing up queer, closeted, and afraid, Richard Scott Larson found expression for his interior life in horror films, especially John Carpenter’s 1978 classic, Halloween. He developed an intense childhood identification with Michael Myers, Carpenter’s inscrutable masked villain, as well as Michael’s potential victims. In The Long Hallway, Larson scrutinizes this identification, meditating on horror as a metaphor fo...
2024-06-10
50 min
Madison BookBeat
Just as a Serpent Sheds Its Skin: Priti Srivastava on Ecofeminism and Reincarnation in Storytelling
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with Priti Srivastava about their novel The Nagini Anarchy, self-published in 2023.Priti Srivastava lives in Madison, Wisconsin with their best friends working to create inclusive spaces so that one day everyone will feel as though they belong. When Priti isn’t working or doing chores, they enjoy playing video games, making their friends laugh, eating samosas, and sitting quietly. Priti loves to connect with readers - check out thechaihouse.org to learn more or to request a virtual visit with your book club....
2024-06-03
43 min
Madison BookBeat
RACHEL WERNER AND HER MANY TALENTS
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Lisa Malawski talks with Rachel Wernerabout her children’s book, Moving and Grooving to Fillmore’s Beat and her cookbook,Macro Cooking Made Simple.Rachel is a model, an author, a poet, a book reviewer, the founder of The Little BookProject, a freelance writer and digital medical consultant, teaching artist, certified holisticnutritionist, certified yoga instructor and mindfulness practitioner. Rachel has a daughternamed Phoebe and a dog named Butter.Mo...
2024-05-27
54 min
Madison BookBeat
Author Beth Nguyen discusses her new memoir, "Owner of a Lonely Heart"
Madison author Beth Nguyen’s latest book Owner of a Lonely Heart (Scribner, July 2023) is a memoir about parenthood, absence, and the condition of being a refugee: the story of Beth’s relationship with her mother.At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her family fled Saigon for America. Only Beth’s mother stayed—or was left—behind, and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over the course of her adult life, she and her mother have spent less than twenty-four hours together. It...
2024-05-13
54 min
Madison BookBeat
Poet Daniel Khalastchi on Wordplay, the Collision of Images, and White Whales
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with poet Daniel Khalastchi about hist new collection The Story of Your Obstinate Survival (2024, University of Wisconsin Press).The Story of Your Obstinate Survival is a propulsive collection. It’s very funny, uncannily mundane and starkly surreal. The poems are a collision of juxtapositions and images, each one brimming with a vigor and vitality that demands re-reading, reading aloud, and maybe even setting to music. The lyrical wordplay will stop you in your tracks, either with laughter or with an appreciation for the de...
2024-05-06
50 min
Madison BookBeat
Angela Trudell Vasquez on Poetry in her Life
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Lisa Malawski talks with Angela Trudell Vasquez, who until recently, was the City of Madison Poet Laureate.Trudell Vasquez is a poet, writer, performer, and activist. Her most recent chapbook, My People Redux (2022, Finishing Line Press) honors her heritage, contending with generational hardships immigrant families face in making a life in America. The chapbook won first place in the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Chapbook Contest for 2022.Angie began writing seriously when she was seven years old. Her grandmother purchased a diary fo...
2024-04-22
44 min
Madison BookBeat
Madison Poet Cynthia Marie Hoffman On “Exploding Head”
Cynthia Marie Hoffman’s latest book of prose poetry, Exploding Head (Persea Books, February 2024) is described as an OCD memoir in prose poems.It chronicles her childhood onset and adult journey through obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), which manifests in fearful obsessions and counting compulsions that impact her relationship to motherhood, religion, and the larger world. It’s been called “Magnificently propulsive and evocative” by Rebecca Morgan Frank. Megan Wildhood said, “I want someone to make a haunted house of these poems.” She joins newest host, Sara Batkie, for a conversation about mental hea...
2024-04-15
53 min
Madison BookBeat
Bending Granite Tells Tales Of Leading Organizational Change
How do you make change at organizations that resemble hard granite, and aren’t designed to bend?Only by patiently and persistently nudging them forward day-by-day, one improvement at a time, according to the authors of Bending Granite: 30+ true stories of leading change (Acta Publications, 2022). It’s a compilation of stories from leaders, mostly in and around Madison, writing about the organizations they loved and sought to improve.It’s a book that promises “no big bang, no instant pudding, no quick fixes.” Nonetheless, it might lend insight for managers on e...
2024-04-08
52 min
Madison BookBeat
Ann Garvin On Writing Her First Book At Age Fifty
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Lisa Malawski talks with local Madison author Ann Garvin.Ann Garvin became an author at age fifty. She has now written five books. Ann Garvin is a nurse, a professor, and USA Today Bestselling Author. She thinks everything is funny and a little bit sad. Ann writes stories about women with a good sense of humor who do too much in a world that asks too much from them. Ann is the founder of the multiple award-winning Tall Poppy Writers where she is committed to helping women writers succeed...
2024-03-19
50 min
Madison BookBeat
Cynthia Simmons On The “Wrong Kind Of Paper”
Hallie Linden yearns to write for the New York Times. At the moment, she’s stuck at a daily newspaper in tiny Green Meadow, Indiana, a town known for its amusement park and nothing else. It’s 1989, and juicy reporting jobs are hard to find. She resolves to work hard, win a few awards, and then welcome the job offers.In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host David Ahrens speaks with Cynthia Simmons. She’s author of a recent novel called Wrong Kind of Paper, the story of a young reporter in a small t...
2024-03-11
52 min
Madison BookBeat
Fragile Institutions: Shibani Mahtani And Timothy McLaughlin on the 2019 Protests in Hong Kong
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with journalists Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin for a conversation on their book Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy (2023, Hachette Books).Among the Braves is a narrative history of the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong told through the eyes of four activists named Finn, Tommy, Chu, and Gwyneth. Imbedded reporters Mahtani and McLaughlin give insight into the development and ultimate dissolution of a movement more than 150 years in the making...
2024-03-04
51 min
Madison BookBeat
Jacquelyn Mitchard On The Importance of Titles
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Lisa Malawski talks with prolific author Jacquelyn Mitchard. Mitchard is now a frequent lecturer and professor of fiction and creative nonfiction at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpellier.She once worked as a journalist at several Wisconsin newspapers, including the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Capital Times, where her husband also worked before his sudden death - a tragedy that prompted her to write her first book.Lisa interviewed Jacquelyn for her book, A Very Inconvenient Scandal, published by...
2024-02-26
35 min
Madison BookBeat
A conversation with Greg Mickells, retiring director of Madison Public Library
For more than a decade, Greg Mickells led the Madison Public Library. He's responsible for a significant transformation of the Madison library system.His tenure as Director took him to three continents, and to the White House in 2016, when Madison Public Library was recognized with a National Medal for Museum and Library Service. Additional awards received under Mickells' leadership include a Wisconsin Innovation Award for "The Bubbler" program, and as a Top Innovator by the Urban Libraries Council in the Race and Social Equity category.Under his hand, the L...
2024-02-12
53 min
Madison BookBeat
It’s Not Nothing: Essayist Peter Coviello on How Our Favorite Books and Songs Help Us Make Worlds Together
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with Peter Coviello on his book of essays Is There God After Prince? Dispatches from an Age of Last Things (2023, University of Chicago Press).Exuberant, effusive, rye, and incisive, this collection of essays analyze a wide range of cultural objects in order to shore up some modicum of consolation against an intractable sense of impending doom. By focusing on beloved novels, films, and songs and the joyful connections they help foster between friends, families, and lovers, Coviello argues that these attachments are small m...
2024-02-05
52 min
Madison BookBeat
Madison's Shoshauna Shy on bringing poetry to the public
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Lisa Malawski talks with local poet Shoshauna Shy.Shoshauna Shy has been involved in local poetry and literary events for decades. She founded the Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf program in 2004, a project with the mission of placing poetry in public places where it isn't expected.She's previously worked for the Wisconsin Humanities Council, where she helped create, coordinate and facilitate poetry programs for the Wisconsin Book Festival when it was just getting started.Shoshauna and L...
2024-01-29
48 min
Madison BookBeat
Heather Swan’s Lyrical Language Of Beauty And Devastation
On this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Cole Erickson interviews Heather Swan about her latest book Dandelion, a collection of poetry which explores our uniquely human relationship with this natural world, not only in its wondrous beauty, but also in its devastation and fragility.About the guest:Heather Swan is a poet, non-fiction writer, and educator in Madison. Her poetry includes the collection A Kinship with Ash, which was a finalist for the ASLE Book Award, and her chapbook The Edge of Damage, which was the winner of the Wisconsin Chapbook Award.She is also t...
2024-01-23
52 min
Madison BookBeat
Thomas Pearson, Author Of An Ordinary Future, On Disability And Difference
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host David Ahrens talks with with Thomas Pearson.Thomas Pearson is a professor of anthropology at UW-Stout, where he also leads the social science department.As a cultural anthropologist, he understands and appreciates the diversity of cultures and expressions of a common humanity. After the birth of his daughter, who has Down’s Syndrome, he documents his struggle towards broadening the concept of humanity to all people-including those who are differently able and thinking about how we can enable them to achieve their full capabilities.
2024-01-08
53 min
Madison BookBeat
The Dane County Farmers' Market Cookbook With Food Writer Terese Allen
The Dane County Farmers' Market is the largest producers-only farmers market in the nation. Last year, it celebrated its 50th anniversary.In celebration of that significant milestone, the DCFM has released a hardcover, full-color, 258-page cookbook. The Dane County Farmers' Market Cookbook (published this year by Little Creek Press) features 125 recipes that give a global spin to locally-sourced ingredients.With a foreword written by chef Tory Miller, and photographs by Bill Lubing, the cookbook is written by Terese Allen. She's the author of a variety of local f...
2023-12-11
48 min
Madison BookBeat
Prof. Stephen Kantrowitz, ”Citizens Of A Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History Of The 19th Century United States.”
Stu Levitan’s guest is UW history professor Stephen Kantrowitz, whose new book should be of special interest to those of us here in Teejop. It’s Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the 19th Century United States from the good people at the University of North Carolina Press.If you are like most Americans with an immigrant background, you probably think citizenship is a good thing, because it confers rights and privileges. But for Native Americans in the 19th century, it was something quite different – it was a way to destroy th...
2023-11-28
1h 30
Madison BookBeat
The Life And Music Of Al Jarreau
Al Jarreau is one of the most beloved musical artists to come out of Milwaukee, and his music – from jazz to pop to R&B – defies easy classification. He performed with a bevy of jazz musicians, and blended an eclectic mix of other styles into his work.But Jarreau is perhaps best known for his live performances and expressive vocal improvisation. When he passed away in 2017, the New York Times wrote of Jarreau’s “virtuosic ability to produce an array of vocalizations ranging from delicious nonsense to clicks and growls to quasi-instrumental sounds.”...
2023-11-16
53 min
Madison BookBeat
Poet Tacey M. Atsitty on Risking Your Heart and Being Swallowed Up
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with Tacey M. Atsitty about her poetry collection (At) Wrist, (2023, The University of Wisconsin Press Press).In a fever dream of metaphor and image, Atsitty explores themes of loss, romantic love, and faith. Drawing on the familiar poetic form of the sonnet, Atsitty demonstrates how vulnerability, nakedness, and risk are an essential part of the connections we build with others across time. Delicate and visceral, (At) Wrist is a collection which "amplifies silence, so you can hear/ every crunch or offering of self."
2023-11-06
51 min
DIE SUCHT ZU SEHEN. Der Grisebach Podcast
77 - Anna Ahrens und die SUCHT ZU SEHEN
Herzlich willkommen in der 77. Folge von Die Sucht zu SEHEN, dem Grisebach-Podcast. Alle zwei Wochen sprechen wir hier Menschen, die etwas in der Kunst - oder über sie - zu sagen haben. Dieses Mal zu Gast ist Anna Ahrens. Anna ist Kunsthistorikerin, bei Grisebach die Expertin für Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts, und auch mit ihm kennt sie sich bestens aus: Caspar David Friedrich, dem wohl berühmtesten deutschen Maler des 19. Jahrhunderts. Weil 2024 sein 250. Geburtstag ist, reiht sich bereits ein Friedrich-Highlight an das nächste: Es wird zahlreiche große Ausstellungen geben. Und Ende November bei der Winterauktion von Grisebach eine klein...
2023-11-05
32 min
Madison BookBeat
UW Prof. Stephen Kantrowitz, "Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the 19th Century United States"
Stu Levitan welcomes UW history professor Stephen Kantrowitz, whose new book should be of special interest to those of us here in Teejop, it’s Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the 19th Century United States from the good people at the University of North Carolina Press.If you are like most Americans with an immigrant background, you probably think citizenship is a good thing, because it confers rights and privileges. But for Native Americans in the 19th century, it was something quite different – it was a way to destroy their coll...
2023-10-30
52 min
Madison BookBeat
Alison Townsend On The Spirit Of Place
On this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Cole Erickson interviews author Alison Townsend. Alison is an award-winning author of two poetry collections, The Blue Dress & Persephone in America, and a volume of prose, The Persistence of Rivers. She is also a professor emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.She joined us in the studio to discuss her latest book of memoir-in-essays titled The Green Hour: A Natural History of Home, published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2022. The Green Hour can be described as a collection of sparkling lyrical prose that moves effortlessly through time...
2023-10-18
54 min
Madison BookBeat
What Are You Reading?
On Madison Book Beat, we aim to highlight local authors and book events. And sometimes, we hope that you just might learn about the next book on your to-read pile.On this pledge drive edition of Madison Book Beat, we flip the table, asking YOU: what’re you reading? What book should we add to our reading list? David Ahrens hosts today’s open line.Books mentioned by callers and by hosts in this episode include… Elizabeth Engstrom’s When Darkness Loves Us (Valancourt Books, 1985), Works by Ross Gay, inclu...
2023-10-09
53 min
Madison BookBeat
A Musical Translation of Movement: Jérôme Camal on Guadeloupean Gwoka and (Post) Coloniality
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with musician and scholar Jérôme Camal on his monography Creolized Aurality: Guadeloupean Gwoka and Postcolonial Politics (2019, University of Chicago Press).Jérôme Camal is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and his research and teaching focus on music, dance, and postcoloniality across the French Atlantic world. Broadly speaking, he investigates how postcolonial ways of knowing and ways of being are created and transmitted through the body. In Creolized Aurality, Camal details how the practice and sounds of gwoka—...
2023-10-02
54 min
Madison BookBeat
Joyce Carol Oates, "Zero-Sum"
Stu Levitan welcomes to Madison BookBeat one of our greatest living writers, perhaps the preeminent American writer, Joyce Carol Oates. She holds a master’s degree and an honorary doctorate from the University of Wisconsin, but of greater immediate interest is that she’s coming back to Madison for an appearance at the Wisconsin Book Festival this Thursday evening the 28th to talk about her new collection, Zero-Sum. That’s at 7 o’clock in the Madison Central Library. To call Joyce Carol Oates prolific is something of an understatement; her statistics are staggering. By one acco...
2023-09-25
52 min
Madison BookBeat
B. Pladek’s Magical Intersection Of Ecology And History
On this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Cole Erickson interviews author Ben Pladek about his debut novel Dry Land. It is 1917, and a young forester in the north woods of Wisconsin has just discovered he has a magical gift: his touch can grow any plant in minutes. Through this thought-provoking novel, Pladek brings us on a eloquent journey that explores the possibility that such a magical gift could actually be a curse, testing and uprooting the character’s beliefs of nature, love, and self-sacrifice.Ben Pladek is a literature scholar and writer based in Milwaukee, as well as As...
2023-09-19
51 min
Madison BookBeat
Jon Melrod's "Fighting Times" in Wisconsin
This week on Madison Book Beat, host David Ahrens speaks with Jonathan Melrod, a prominent radical, political activist, labor organizer, human rights lawyer and pancreatic cancer survivor, now out with a memoir: "Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War" (September 2022, PM Press).Melrod's memoir highlights his time as a student radical on the UW-Madison campus, during the peak of anti-war upheaval in the 1960s. But unlike the vast majority of protesters, after the demonstrations ended, Melrod committed himself to organizing the industrial working class for revolution.
2023-09-11
52 min
Madison BookBeat
Novelist And Poet Quan Barry On Nonduality, Communicating Beyond Language, And Writing Across Genres
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with novelist, poet and playwright Quan Barry about her novel When I’m Gone, Look for Me in the East (2022, Vintage) and her forthcoming collection of poetry Auction (2023, University of Pittsburgh Press).“Why do we need to believe our lives must add up to some grand narrative, and what happens when we stop believing this?” asks the narrator of When I’m Gone, Look for Me in the East. Set in the vast steppes of Mongolia, the novel follows two brothers on their quest to...
2023-09-04
53 min
Madison BookBeat
Poet Deshawn McKinney On Vulnerability As A Muscle
On this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Cole Erickson interviews poet Deshawn McKinney. The Milwaukee poet is out with his debut chapbook father forgive me (Black Sunflowers Poetry Press, 2021). It’s a collection described as “an acerbic hip hop hymnal” filled with “fearless, wounding and tender” poems.About the guest: Deshawn McKinney is a writer and poet out of Milwaukee and currently lives in Madison. His poetry has appeared in multiple journals, including River Heron Review as a poetry prize-winner.He’s a graduate of UW-Madison, where he earned a degr...
2023-08-21
52 min
Madison BookBeat
Scholar Nicole Fox On Memorials, Transitional Justice, And The Inescapability Of Memory
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with Nicole Fox about her monograph, After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda (2021, The University of Wisconsin Press Press). How does a society move forward after the mass violence of genocide? What role do public memorials play in creating healing narratives ? Whose experiences get told and re-told, and whose experiences get marginalized as years go by? 2024 marks thirty years since the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and scholar Nicole Fox provides insight into these questions based on years of interviews with survivors who n...
2023-08-07
53 min
The Backstory
Tech and the Human Touch: Healthcare Staffing with Craig Ahrens and Courtney Kelsey
Can technology really augment and streamline healthcare operations and make the work of healthcare workers easier? Can technology help provider organizations actually manage their workforce more effectively?The answer to both of these questions is obviously, “Yes.” And despite significant progress over the past few years, it still seems at times that technology and digital tools complicate and confuse as much as they help. The reality hasn’t yet matched the promise.Still, there are tools and platforms that are accelerating the progress. And, helping provider organizations communicate and engage with their workforce in ways that c...
2023-06-28
19 min
Conversations With Yogis
Episode 06: Cultivating community & building on the more important aspects of yoga - with Darvina Plante
We had the privilege of inviting our very first guest to our podcast this week. We asked brilliantly talented Darvina Plante to join us in discussing why she started practicing yoga, what made her decide to become a yoga teacher, and why she loves The Rocket. She shared why community, diversity, and accessibility are fundamental to her teaching, and we couldn’t agree more. We spoke about why we believe Rocket is accessible, (and what Rocket is for those of you who haven’t tried it!) and what it was like to lead a teacher training program with David Kyle...
2023-06-27
40 min
The Reflex Blue Show : A Graphic Design Podcast
HOW Design Live 2023, Conference Recap 1 of 3 : Justin Ahrens, David C. Baker, Michael Bierut, Bill Gardner, Darcy Hinrichs, Gary Kopervas, Emily Mills, Stefan Mumaw, Calvin Ng
Justin Ahrens, David C. Baker, Michael Bierut, Bill Gardner, Darcy Hinrichs, Gary Kopervas, Emily Mills, Stefan Mumaw, and Calvin Ng discuss the first day of 2023’s HOW Design Live in Nashville, Tennessee. This HOW had an energy I missed. It[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post HOW Design Live 2023, Conference Recap 1 of 3 : Justin Ahrens, David C. Baker, Michael Bierut, Bill Gardner, Darcy Hinrichs, Gary Kopervas, Emily Mills, Stefan Mumaw, Calvin Ng appeared first on 36 Point.
2023-06-14
00 min
Onze Supremos
#137 Como tomar notas (com Horácio Neiva)
Hoje eu tenho a imensa felicidade de receber o mais veterano dos veteranos do Onze, o homem que inaugurou este podcast comigo na minha primeira entrevista: Horácio Neiva. Horácio foi quem me apresentou as ferramentas e sistemas de tomada de notas que discutiremos hoje. Posso falar para vocês, sem medo de errar, o episodio de hoje é, como o anterior e como será o próximo, um divisor de águas na forma como você se relaciona com suas leituras. Lattes do convidado: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4533779075360296 Conheça o clube do livro jurídico da Co...
2023-04-28
1h 33
Design Of Podcast
S8 Episode 50: David Wallace Haskins - The Design Of Light, Space, Time, and Sound
David Wallace Haskins is an American interdisciplinary artist using light, space, time, and sound to create experiential installations, sculptures, and architectural interventions. His works often invite exploration and participation, challenging visitors’ assumptions while highlighting the interrelational dynamic they share with themselves, others, and the world around them. Haskins develops and contextualizes his work with a team of creative technicians—often partnering with specialists in psychology, ecology, physics, and philosophy. DWH Studio is based in Chicago, Illinois and we are excited to share the story of this incredible artist and visionary!
2022-07-29
1h 06
On Mission
S1. Ep. 4 | Damian Ahrens & Dr. David Handyside
Dr. Damian Ahrens and Dr. David Handyside explore how God leads in the area of Christian Education. Listen as Ahrens discusses the role of servant leadership in education and Handyside relates God’s leading during the Christian School Movement.
2022-03-15
1h 00
Design Of Podcast
S7 Episode 45: David Jon Walker - The Design of Lettering a New Career
Many of us dream of creating a new path, a new career, or just some new life options, but more often than not they stay just that- dreams. David Jon Walker is a graphic designer of color, educator, and community advocate from Tennessee that is just now beginning a new chapter all thanks to chasing his dreams. Through his lettering and design works, he strives to express perspective and question messages that are culturally popular with added context to appeal to a wider range of audiences. He is a past president of the AIGA Nashville Chapter and a current Design...
2021-11-22
38 min
The Vibes Broadcast Network
New Projects from Filmmakers David Espinosa and Craig Ahrens
Send us a textNew Projects Announced from Filmmakers David Espinosa and Craig Ahrens#podcast #subscribe #interview #IndieFilm #filmmakers #TheEvilDowntheStreet #TheCrumbs #CRAEntertainment #DemonFighter #JohnOzuna #horror #scary #paranormal CRA Entertainment, Inc. is an independent film production company. We're dedicated in producing the highest quality in film entertainment. Our mission is to entertain, inform and enlighten. See LessFounded in 2013, CRA Entertainment is an independent film productioncompany. Founder Craig Ahrens is an Award Winning Filmmaker andSAG-AFTRA Actor. David Espinosa, is a SAG-AFTRA Actor-Director and Writerwith credits in Film...
2021-10-19
55 min
whistlekick Martial Arts Radio
Episode 630 - Kyoshi David Ahrens
Kyoshi David Ahrens is a martial arts practitioner and instructor at the East Coast Karate in Rhode Island. I don’t know if I could separate myself from the Martial Arts. People say all the time that Martial Arts is part of my life but I think my life is just part of Martial Arts. Kyoshi David Ahrens - Episode 630 Lost as a teenager because of the tough life he went through. Martial Arts was the reason why Kyoshi David Ahrens was able to cope but it was Martial Art’s influence on him...
2021-08-09
1h 11
Love Your Work
How to Take Smart Notes Book Summary
If you’re a fan of using Getting Things Done to stay on top of all the, well, things you need to get done – you’ll love How to Take Smart Notes for staying on top of all the things you want to learn. I’ll give you an introduction – in my own words – in this How to Take Smart Notes book summary. The note-taking system introduced in Sönke Ahrens’s How to Take Smart Notes is a bit like Getting Things Done for learning. GTD is great for things that have a clear objective. But creative insight...
2021-02-18
15 min
Design Of Podcast
S6 Episode 39: David C. Baker - Advisor, Expert, Author
The New York Times once wrote about David Baker, “What’s so compelling about Mr. Baker is that he’s an expert on being an expert”. This week’s guest, David Baker, is a well-known author of five books (so far), an international speaker, co-host of his podcast 2 Bobs, and advisor to over 900 firms. Enjoy this conversation about David’s start living among a remote Mayan community to becoming a leading authority on positioning, reinventing, and selling for firms in the creative and digital space.
2020-12-07
45 min
The Mighty Dragon podcast
Talking The Crumbs with Craig Ahrens & David Espinosa
As you know we have been joined a few times on The Mighty Dragon by actress Chelsea Jurkiewicz . Chelsea messaged me the other day letting me know The Crumbs, which she had mentioned on our last interview, was available on Amazon Prime UK. I popped it on pretty much immediately to review here, but felt a podcast with the director and writer would be far more exciting. After all, this horror to me, felt unique and the characters a depth about them that was quite refreshing after a few weeks of constant horror films leading up to Halloween.
2020-11-10
41 min
Zwischen zwei Deckeln
"Das Zettelkasten-Prinzip" von Sönke Ahrens
In der aktuellen Episode haben wir das erste Mal ein Buch dabei, dass auch Ratgeber und gleichzeitig noch irgendwie meta ist. Wir schauen nämlich mal darauf, wie man all die Gedanken und Ideen, die einem beim Lesen spannender Bücher so in den Kopf kommen, so festhalten kann, dass man auch Jahre später noch sinnvoll mit ihnen arbeiten kann. In seinem Buch, „Das Zettelkasten-Prinzip“ beschreibt Sönke Ahrens nämlich, wie Studierende und andere wissenschaftlich Arbeitende einen Zettelkasten nutzen können, um ihren Schreib- und Arbeitsprozess möglichst effizient zu gestalten. Er geht dabei weniger auf den Zet...
2020-05-14
1h 04
Know Your Candidates Podcast
Know Your Candidates: Dane County Board, District 17 - David Ahrens
David Ahrens, candidate for Dane County Supervisor, District 17, explains their qualifications for this office and why they are running. This Special Election is being held Tuesday, June 4th.
2019-05-09
19 min
Know Your Candidates
Know Your Candidates: Dane County Board, District 17 - David Ahrens
David Ahrens, candidate for Dane County Supervisor, District 17, explains their qualifications for this office and why they are running. This Special Election is being held Tuesday, June 4th.
2019-05-09
19 min
Design Of Podcast
S2 Episode 8 - David Gould: Educator, Artist, Las Vegas Dreamer
As the Obermann Public Scholar at the University of Iowa, David Gould helps students plot the course to their dream career and a fulfilling personal life. He previously led a collaboration with Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh in rebuilding the social and economic structure of downtown Las Vegas.
2016-08-15
1h 06
Freak Show
Der Hund hat die Datei gefressen
Feedback zur Sendung? Schreibe uns einen Kommentar Diese Sendung soll nie aufhören? Unterstütze die Metaebene Podcasts — Schwarmtaler — Camp — 32C3 — Tesla — Macs — The Incredible Herrengedeck — Design — c-booc — Bitcoin - Robbenbabies Der Sommer verdrückt sich langsam und die Freak Show kommt nach der lustigen Show auf dem Chaos Communication Camp wieder in der Metaebene zusammen. Die heutige Sendung beginnt nicht nur mit dem "100. Previously", wir begrüßen auch erstmals den Schöpfer der unterhaltsamen Freak-Show-Intros David in unserer Runde. Wir sprechen über Podcasting, das Camp, Elektroautos, Fußball, Streaming und Strategien für digital...
2015-09-03
3h 52
Freak Show
Die blaue Maus auf dem Berg
Feedback zur Sendung? Schreibe uns einen Kommentar Diese Sendung soll nie aufhören? Unterstütze die Metaebene Ein neuer Beginn in bewährter Gestalt Die Sommerpause ist vorbei und das Team versammelt sich nun erstmals unter dem neuen Namen leider unter inakzeptablen klimatischen Bedingungen. In der zur Schwitzhütte umgebauten Metaebene kommt dazu vor allem viel deprimierendes auf den Tisch, da wir uns natürlich auch mal der Auswirkungen des frisch dokumentierten Überwachungsstaates annehmen und unsere Schlüsse ziehen. Dazu schauen wir noch auf ein paar verhältnismäßig spektakuläre Hacks de...
2013-08-08
3h 38
Freak Show
The One Million Satoshi Pizza
Feedback zur Sendung? Schreibe uns einen Kommentar Diese Sendung soll nie aufhören? Unterstütze die Metaebene Heute eine Sendung ohne Clemens und damit leider auch ohne den eigentlich geplanten Einblick in den Netzaufbau auf der re:publica 13, die letzte Woche in Berlin stattfand, aber dafür trotzdem in voller Länge mit allerlei Nerdthemen. Dauer: 4:09:20 Denis Ahrens Twitter Amazon Wishlist Bitcoin hukl Twitter GitHub SMYCK Thomann Wishlist Amazon Wishlist Bitcoin roddi GitHub Mastodon Website Amazon Wishlist Tim Pritlove @timpritlove@mastodon.social Website Bluesky Amazon Wishlist Liberapay SEPA...
2013-05-16
4h 09
Freak Show
Pie Malum Domine Dona Nobis Requiem
Feedback zur Sendung? Schreibe uns einen Kommentar Diese Sendung soll nie aufhören? Unterstütze die Metaebene Willkommen zu unserer revolutionären 109. Bildschirmarbeitersendung in der heiligen Woche vor der Eröffnung des heiligen Apple Stores in Berlin. Wir berichten live, warum der Store keine Glastreppe haben wird und üben schon mal kräftig Klatschorgien und Jubelchöre ein, um passend in Stimmung zu kommen. Nach einiger Diskussion schlagen wir dann aber einen kreativeren Umgang mit dem Ereignis vor und hoffen auf die Mönche. Roddi ist leider nicht dabei, dafür begrüße...
2013-05-02
3h 38
Freak Show
Steve Jobs im Schneewittchensarg
Feedback zur Sendung? Schreibe uns einen Kommentar Diese Sendung soll nie aufhören? Unterstütze die Metaebene In der einer von omnipräsenten Leaks über gefühlt jegliches Detail künftiger Apple-Produktankündigen jeglicher Spannung und Vorfreude beraubten Stimmung findet sich das Team - dieses mal leider ohne Roddi - zusammen und versucht sich vergeblich in qualifiziertem Glaskugling. Irgendwie taugen wir gerade nicht als Apple Fanboys. Dafür erzählt hukl von seinen Gitarrenexperimenten. Das ist doch auch was. Dauer: 3:48:59 Denis Ahrens Twitter Amazon Wishlist Bitcoin hukl Twitter ...
2012-09-06
3h 48
Freak Show
Es schikaniert mich
Feedback zur Sendung? Schreibe uns einen Kommentar Diese Sendung soll nie aufhören? Unterstütze die Metaebene Kaum ist die Fußball-Europameisterschaft vorbei ändert sich das dominieren Hashtag von EM nach MM und unsere Runde kommt wieder einmal zusammen. Roddi bleibt allerdings auf der Ersatzbank und überlässt das Spiel den anderen vieren. Diese sehen sich einem Googlesturm neuer Produkte ausgesetzt und kann diesem nur mit einer mangelhafter Podcast-Applikation von Apple begegnen. Wie wird das Spiel ausgehen? Das erfahrt ihr nach nur vier Stunden Podcast-Genuss. Dauer: 3:54:05 Denis Ahrens...
2012-07-03
3h 54
Freak Show
My Little Server: FreeBSD Is Magic
Feedback zur Sendung? Schreibe uns einen Kommentar Diese Sendung soll nie aufhören? Unterstütze die Metaebene Unsere 87. Ausgabe kommt in Vollbesetzung und recht launig daher. Und ausgesprochen live, denn wir trollen während der Sendung gemeinsam mit dem Chat unschuldige und friedliche BSD-User. Dauer: 3:41:26 Denis Ahrens Twitter Amazon Wishlist Bitcoin hukl Twitter GitHub SMYCK Thomann Wishlist Amazon Wishlist Bitcoin Max von Webel Mastodon Website Facebook GitHub roddi GitHub Mastodon Website Amazon Wishlist Tim Pritlove @timpritlove@mastodon.social Website Bluesky Amazon Wishlist Liberapay SEPA-Überweisung via Online-Banking-Software Payp...
2012-05-10
3h 41
Freak Show
Der Spiegel ruckelt
Feedback zur Sendung? Schreibe uns einen Kommentar Diese Sendung soll nie aufhören? Unterstütze die Metaebene Unsere voraussichtlich vorletzte Sendung des Jahres ist wider Erwarten keine buntglamouröse Gadget-Show und mangels passender Nachrichtenlage gibt es auch wenig aktuelles zu diskutieren. Daher schweifen wir ab und widmen uns Google, Blade Runner und der Heimautomatisierung. hukl war krank, der Rest anwesend, Gäste gab es dieses Mal keine. Dauer: 2:46:03 Denis Ahrens Twitter Amazon Wishlist Bitcoin Max von Webel Mastodon Website Facebook GitHub Tim Pritlove @timpritlove@mastodon.social Website Blue...
2011-11-29
2h 46
Freak Show
Seepferdchensex
Feedback zur Sendung? Schreibe uns einen Kommentar Diese Sendung soll nie aufhören? Unterstütze die Metaebene Die etablierte Runde begrüßt erstmalig einen Sendungsgast: Winnie Teichmann war zu Besuch in Berlin und bereichert nachhaltig unseren Quasselfunk und sorgt in der Metaebene für ausverkaufte Sitzplätze. Ansonsten ist alles beim alten: wir radebrechen uns durch die Themen der letzten Wochen und geben zweifelhafte Prognosen und gewagte Einschätzungen von uns. Des weiteren feiern wir, dass die böse Hexe tot ist. Dauer: 4:08:09 Tim Pritlove @timpritlove@mastodon.social ...
2011-11-17
4h 08
Freak Show
Meistens Immer
Feedback zur Sendung? Schreibe uns einen Kommentar Diese Sendung soll nie aufhören? Unterstütze die Metaebene Die 75. Sendung fand ohne viel Jubiläumsbrimborium und leider auch ohne hukl statt. Dafür reden wir ein wenig mit Siri auf Max' neuem iPhone 4S und philosophieren wie gewohnt wenig zielsicher über zukünftige Fernsehmodelle. Zwischendurch ist dann allerdings Nerdtalk für angehende Programmierer. Ihr werdet es überleben. Dauer: 3:13:02 Denis Ahrens Twitter Amazon Wishlist Bitcoin Max von Webel Mastodon Website Facebook GitHub Tim Pritlove @timpritlove@mastodon.social Website Bluesky Amazon W...
2011-11-01
3h 13
Freak Show
Tal der Tränen
Feedback zur Sendung? Schreibe uns einen Kommentar Diese Sendung soll nie aufhören? Unterstütze die Metaebene Die erste Post-Steve-Jobs-Ausgabe von mobileMacs setzt sich natürlich mit dem Unvermeidlichen auseinander. Und natürlich blicken wir auf die nicht enden wollende Ansammlung von "Enttäuschungen" der letzten zwei Wochen. Dauer: 3:20:48 Tim Pritlove @timpritlove@mastodon.social Website Bluesky Amazon Wishlist Liberapay SEPA-Überweisung via Online-Banking-Software Paypal Denis Ahrens Twitter Amazon Wishlist Bitcoin hukl Twitter GitHub SMYCK Thomann Wishlist Amazon Wishlist Bitcoin Max von Webel Mastodon Website Facebook GitHub David Scriba...
2011-10-20
3h 20
Freak Show
Creepy
Feedback zur Sendung? Schreibe uns einen Kommentar Diese Sendung soll nie aufhören? Unterstütze die Metaebene In einer von den schlechten Nachrichten dieses Tages noch gänzlich unbeinflussten Sendung sprechen wir über die Ankündigungen und Veranstaltungen der letzten Woche rund um iPhone, Kindle und Co. hukl war leider dieses Mal nicht dabei, trotzdem hat sich eine ganz muntere Stimmung entwickelt, in der wir ein weiteres Mal die Psyche der Apple Store Mitarbeiter erforschen und darüber sinnieren, in welchem Maße und welcher Form wir künftig mit unseren...
2011-10-06
3h 25
Freak Show
Sicheres Durchstöbern
Feedback zur Sendung? Schreibe uns einen Kommentar Diese Sendung soll nie aufhören? Unterstütze die Metaebene Das mobileMacs Team präsentiert Euch dieses Mal eine detaillierte Demonstration unserer Unfähigkeit, uns über die nahe Zukunft einig zu werden. Wir versteigen uns zu allerlei hanebüchenen Voraussagen bezüglich der im Herbst zu erwartenden Produktneuerungen und zum iPhone 5 fällt uns überhaupt nichts substantielles ein. Das ganze haben wir dann aber immerhin auf über 3 Stunden Diskussion ziehen können. Viel Spaß! Dauer: 3:15:07 Tim Pritlove @timpritlove@mastodon.social Website Bl...
2011-09-08
3h 15
Freak Show
Dieser Planet ist durchgespielt
Feedback zur Sendung? Schreibe uns einen Kommentar Diese Sendung soll nie aufhören? Unterstütze die Metaebene Nach der Camp-bedingten Pause nimmt mobileMacs wieder das Programm auf. Dieses Mal gab es ja allerhand Marktgeschehen zu bequatschen, was wir dann auch eifrig taten. Wir entschuldigen uns schon mal vorab für den länglichen Einstieg und geloben Besserung. Dauer: 4:20:57 Tim Pritlove @timpritlove@mastodon.social Website Bluesky Amazon Wishlist Liberapay SEPA-Überweisung via Online-Banking-Software Paypal Denis Ahrens Twitter Amazon Wishlist Bitcoin hukl Twitter GitHub SMYCK Thomann Wishlist Amazon Wishlist Bitco...
2011-08-23
4h 20
Freak Show
Mach den Affen weg
Feedback zur Sendung? Schreibe uns einen Kommentar Diese Sendung soll nie aufhören? Unterstütze die Metaebene In Ausgabe Nummer 69 nehmen wir uns der frisch erschienenen Apple-Hardware an und sinnieren auch über einige Aspekte des ebenfalls frisch erschienenen neuen Mac OS X Version. Weiterhin diskutieren wir über Online-Backup-Dienstleister und werden im letzten Viertel von einem Affen zur Strecke gebracht. Dauer: 3:57:42 Tim Pritlove @timpritlove@mastodon.social Website Bluesky Amazon Wishlist Liberapay SEPA-Überweisung via Online-Banking-Software Paypal Denis Ahrens Twitter Amazon Wishlist Bitcoin hukl Twitter GitHub SMYCK Thomann Wishlist Amazo...
2011-07-23
3h 57
Freak Show
Zehn Meter Bremsspur
Feedback zur Sendung? Schreibe uns einen Kommentar Diese Sendung soll nie aufhören? Unterstütze die Metaebene Die 68er kommen und bringen Euch eine Talksendung mit einer Menge Hardcore-Technikdiskussion und allerlei technischen Problemen, die die Sendung am Ende zu einem natürlichen Ende bringen. Aber das ist der Preis des Fortschritts. Wir reden viel über SSD und Backupsysteme, Mac OS X/iOS Programmierung, Kalenderprogramme und Denis stellt sein neues Bitcoin-Imperium vor. Dauer: 3:52:20 Tim Pritlove @timpritlove@mastodon.social Website Bluesky Amazon Wishlist Liberapay SEPA-Überweisung via Online-Banking-Software Paypal Denis...
2011-06-29
3h 52