Cryptocurrencies are increasing in volume, but not a lot of the population understands them. A finance professor walks us through what we need to know. Then, we check in on the latest state report cards on school districts from the state department of public instruction, with the help of an education policy expert.

An energy expert joins us to dig into the potential impact of the United States moving away from using coal. Then the state Department of Natural resources helps us better understand the importance of deer hunting in Wisconsin. And we hear about short stories inspired by the Driftless Area of the state.

The state Department of Natural resources helps us better understand the importance of deer hunting in Wisconsin. Then we hear about short stories inspired by the Driftless Area of the state. The hour wraps up with the latest out of Washington D.C. this week from a congressional correspondent.

We explore the latest out of Washington D.C. this week with a congressional correspondent. Then an energy expert joins us to dig into the potential impact of the United States moving away from using coal.

We hear a journalist's argument that several recent rebukes of polling demonstrate we should get rid of the practice altogether. Then a man who was wrongfully convicted, who now works as a lawyer helping other people like him, wrote a book about what happened, and shares the experience with us.

A man who was wrongfully convicted, who now works as a lawyer helping other people like him, wrote a book about what happened, and shares the experience with us. Then a journalism and mass communication professor discusses the origins and trajectories of political memes including one currently making the rounds as code for a vulgar anti-Joe Biden message.

A journalism and mass communication professor discusses the origins and trajectories of political memes including one currently making the rounds as code for a vulgar anti-Joe Biden message. Then we hear a journalist's argument that several recent rebukes of polling demonstrate we should get rid of the practice altogether.

The director of the University of Wisconsin law school's Public Defender Project discusses where things are at in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. Then the head of a project to tell the complete history of map-making tells us what it feels like to nearly conclude the four-decade project. And we learn about the discovery of a century-old dugout canoe on the bottom of Madison's Lake Mendota, and what's being done with it now.

The head of a project to tell the complete history of map-making tells us what it feels like to approach completion of the four-decade project. Then we learn about the discovery of a century-old dugout canoe on the bottom of Madison's Lake Mendota, and what's being done with it now. And the author of a new book chronicling how humanity has suffered from, and survived, infections over the centuries, puts the current pandemic in that broad historic context.

The author of a new book chronicling how humanity has suffered from, and survived, infections over the centuries, puts the current pandemic in that broad historic context. Then the director of the University of Wisconsin law school's Public Defender Project discusses where things are at in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse.