First, retired service manager Jim Ward is back to answer your questions about getting water out of your car and prepping for winter driving. Then, we hear about the history of cars and vehicle manufacturers in Wisconsin from Dawn Bondhus, executive director of the Wisconsin Automotive Museum.

What each of us sees and hears in the wild can guide natural resource management in Wisconsin. We talk about the connection with two UW-Extension wildlife specialists. Then, we learn about the low-carbon concrete poured by UW-Stout students on their campus.

We talk about America’s first kindergarten in Watertown with Melissa Lampe and Jim Braughler. Then, we hear about the evolution of education in our country from author Jim Nelsen. Deanna Springer fills us in ahead of The Great Wisconsin Quilt Show and we cover strategies to avoid falling with Jill Renken.

If you want to be a better cook, look to your garden. We talk to Kevin West, the author of a new gardening cookbook about how to grow better tasting vegetables. Then Diana Alfuth is back to answer your questions on what to plant now and how to extend your growing season.

We chat with Dr. Erik Brodt, one of the co-founders of a clothing company that celebrates Native American style. Then, we get advice from Green Bay-based personal stylist Stephanie Taylor. Finally, tax professional Mary Mellem returns to remind you to file ahead of the Oct. 15 extended deadline.

It took four years to compile and unify, but a new global checklist of birds, the AviList, recognizes 11,131 bird species in the world and attempts to settle decades of debate over how species are defined.

We start by talking about the music of the Vietnam War and how soldiers and civilians alike connected with songs while continents apart. Our guests are the writer Doug Bradley and historian Craig Werner. Then, we cover the book “I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine” with author and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin.

UW-Madison students and researchers find automation apps ripe for hacking and abuse. Then, we talk about the drop off in drinking by Americans. Then, we talk about the recent flooding in Milwaukee with the Weather Guys.

We talk with the UW Extension’s fruit experts about getting your best harvest. We also look into one of the last visible links to Wisconsin’s beet sugar industry.

We talk about the novel “The Business Trip” with author and longtime journalist Jessie Garcia. Then, Dr. Jake Behrens joins us as we dispel myths about ADHD and talk about diagnosis and treatments for adults.