Fighting Climate Change with Faith

Fighting Climate Change with Faith

Dekila Chungyalpa is on the forefront of a new movement to bring together two powerful tools in the fight against climate change: science and faith. Through the Loka Initiative at UW–Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds, Chungyalpa is encouraging religious leaders to...
Chronicler of Weird Wisconsin

Chronicler of Weird Wisconsin

Frank Anderson knows a lot about Wisconsin. As the founder of the blog Wisconsinology, Anderson is committed to sharing little-known stories about Wisconsin people and events that help us better understand our state and culture. Born on Basilan Island in the...
Community Café Culture

Community Café Culture

Ben Cadman and Celeste Parins, the owners of Voyageurs Sourdough, want to share their love of bread with the people of Green Bay. Parins, a Green Bay native, met the Netherlands-born Cadman while traveling across Asia. As the two bonded over their love of food,...
Carbon

Carbon

In a dream I saw a table where all the elements fell into place …Dmitri Mendeleev  You think the elements know the differencebetween the inanimateand us? And what is the difference, really,between a rock and the hard placethe human heart becomes, at times?  Does...
150 Years Tall, Many Fathoms Deep

150 Years Tall, Many Fathoms Deep

See through these words, colors,movements, measures   See firstgreen shoot, see roots taking hold and up at the source, seefissure in the ground, seeclear cold water, a spring  See trunk, branch, twig,flowering of leaf or budof needle, see, even if you can’t  See how...
Celebrating 150 Years of the Academy

Celebrating 150 Years of the Academy

Imagine what it was like on that February afternoon in 1870, when hundreds of people crowded into Wisconsin’s State Agricultural Hall for the convention to organize the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. Wisconsin was a young state, and the nation was...