Episodes

  • Diving into Milwaukee Public Library's Great Lakes Marine Collection

    Diving into Milwaukee Public Library's Great Lakes Marine Collection
    Sep 27 2024
    Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski visits Milwaukee Public Library's Central Branch to learn more about the Great Lakes Marine Collection with local author Anna Lardinois, who's written about shipwrecks, and Special Collections librarian Tobias Fudge.
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    14 mins
  • 'Star Wars: A New Hope' dubbed into Ojibwe in an effort to help revitalize the language

    'Star Wars: A New Hope' dubbed into Ojibwe in an effort to help revitalize the language
    Sep 25 2024
    Niigaanii-Animikii Inini, a Wisconsin voice actor featured in an Ojibwe dubbing of 'Star Wars: A New Hope,' shares his experience of working on the translation of the film.
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    14 mins
  • Scientists find signs of sinkholes on the floor of Lake Michigan

    Scientists find signs of sinkholes on the floor of Lake Michigan
    Sep 23 2024
    The cold, deep underwater holes offer a look at Lake Michigan’s distant past.
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    11 mins
  • Greentree: Where you are safe to be yourself

    Greentree: Where you are safe to be yourself
    Sep 20 2024
    Greentree and Teutonia Apartments are a public housing community on Milwaukee's north side. The community inspires us to consider deeper meanings of "safety."
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    11 mins
  • Milwaukee's King Center: More than a center, more than neighborhood trauma

    Milwaukee's King Center: More than a center, more than neighborhood trauma
    Sep 18 2024
    When Milwaukee's King Center opened almost 50 years ago, it was designed to serve the entire community. And for so long it has. But the narrative around the center changed a few months ago with a police killing.
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    16 mins
  • Trump's appeal in Wisconsin possibly explained: It's the economic inequalities, says researcher

    Trump's appeal in Wisconsin possibly explained: It's the economic inequalities, says researcher
    Sep 16 2024
    Great Lakes economist John Austin looks at the economic divide in the region and how it might be bridged.
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    12 mins
  • How hazelnuts can build climate resilience in the Upper Midwest

    How hazelnuts can build climate resilience in the Upper Midwest
    Sep 13 2024
    Establishing a new nut industry has been a tough nut to crack. But experts say the crop could diversify agricultural economies and bring environmental benefits to depleted farmland.
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    18 mins
  • Reminiscing about Wisconsin’s hot cicada summer

    Reminiscing about Wisconsin’s hot cicada summer
    Sep 11 2024
    This summer, after spending the last 17 years underground, millions of periodical cicadas emerged in southern Wisconsin. WUWM’s Lina Tran and Jimmy Gutierrez went to Lake Geneva on a mission to experience the emergence for themselves.
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    16 mins