How often do you clean your home? Since the pandemic began, cleaning habits have shifted and now inflation is causing prices of household cleaners to rise. As money-saving strategies evolve, we talk about homemade cleaning products and their effectiveness.

For more than a decade, the number of college students graduating in the humanities has been declining and some fear job prospects are disappearing in these fields. We talk with Marquette University educators and a recent graduate about why the humanities matter and how they can be relevant.

What are the origins of breakfast cereal? A new book says the story began 10,000 years ago. The author joins the show to describe the evolution of cereal throughout history.

Exposure to nature has been linked to a host of benefits including improved attention, lower stress and better mood. But what if homes and offices could evoke the feeling of being outdoors? The environmental design is called biophilic, and we speak with a consultant on how to bring the outside in.

We explore one woman’s journey through recovery, finding faith and healing. Caroline Beidler is the former director of Wisconsin Voices for Recovery and author of “Downstairs Church: Finding Hope in the Grit of Addiction and Trauma Recovery.”

We hear from a group of Beloit high school students who want to know more about how social media shapes lives and mental health. A pediatrician and leader of the Social Media and Adolescent Health Research Team joins the program to discuss.

New research suggests loneliness is on the rise among Americans since the COVID-19 pandemic. But loneliness manifests at many stages of life and can be a source of growth. The author of a new book, “On Loneliness: How to Feel Less Alone in an Isolating World,” joins us.

Community Supported Agriculture — or CSA farms — attempt to make producing food a community project, getting cooperation from the microbes and worms up to the neighbors and local businesses. We chat with a pioneer of the CSA movement who has written a memoir and cookbook about her farm in Iowa.

How can the richest country in the world have more poverty than any other industrialized democracy? That is the question Matthew Desmond aims to answer in his new book, “Poverty, by America.” We speak with Desmond on who profits off the poor and how to abolish poverty.

Humans have long thought we are unique in our ability to communicate with sound. Thanks to digital recording technology, scientists are now beginning to grasp the ways that animals use sound and how even some plants respond to noises. We talk with the author of a book about the sounds of life.