Stu Levitan in conversation with historian Dennis McNally about his new book, "The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties"

Before cotton was king, there was linen. A group of Midwest farmers and fiber artists are working to revive the tradition of growing and wearing linen fabric. WORT’s Sara Gabler attended an event at the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection on the UW-Madison campus to learn about the history of linen textiles.

Photo courtesy of Sara Gabler/WORT News.

A heat wave is blanketing Wisconsin for most of this week, with the heat index in our area slated to top a hundred degrees today and tomorrow. That kind of extreme heat isn’t just uncomfortable – it can be dangerous, according to local public health officials.

Morgan Finke is the communication coordinator at Public Health Madison and Dane County. She joined our News Producer Faye Parks to share some safety tips and describe the signs of heat illness.

Image courtesy: Richard Hurd via Flickr.

When a health and diet scientist is funded by a corporation, the data released to the public should be looked at with discerning eyes. 

In this edition of “The Milkweed,” Pete Hardin and Bert Zipperer scrutinize Dr. Ancel Keys of the University of Minnesota – who published misinformation favorable to Crisco and its producers…not the general public.

Image courtesy: The Minnesota Daily.

Forecast from Monday, 6-29-26 by WORT 89.9FM Madison

You’ve probably heard that the AI boom is “inevitable,” but a global network of researchers, journalists, and scholars is fighting that narrative with the newly launched AI Resist List. It’s a publicly accessible, collaboratively built website that champions projects that are fighting Big Tech’s vision of AI. On today’s show, host Douglas Haynes speaks with climate communicator Heidi Lim about grassroots resistance and alternative AI futures.

Featured image of a Google data center via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Gil Halsted talked with Cassandra Dixon, local activist for Palestine and Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch the Executive Director of the Middle East Childrens Alliance, known as MECA, about raising money for Gaza with the Big Ride for Palestine on July 19th.

They talked about the bike ride itself as well as the complicated route by which funds get to Gaza and what they are used for and by whom.

Big Ride for Palestine

10:00 AM July 19th from Olin Park Bike Path

Madison has partnered with MECA for years on projects to benefit children in Gaza and Cassandra and Zeiad talk about how the Big Ride not only raises funds but is also a way to show solidarity with Palestinians.

Cassandra made it very clear that everyone is welcome at the Big Ride whether they are bike riders, walkers, runners, unicyclists or other.

Those who sign up by July 15th will get a Big Ride shirt.

Meeting time is 10:00 AM at Olin Park on July 19th and there will be watermelon and cold water as well as festive decorating materials for bikes and other vehicles.

The ride is to the zoo and back with a break at Midland Park.

Information about Signup, to donate and all other Big Ride information is on the Madison Rafah Sister City Project website at http://madisonrafah.org/

Award-winning Madison photographer Amadou Kromah talks about how he first picked up a camera, what he hopes to impart to younger shutterbugs, and what to expect at his retrospective exhibit at the Madison Public Library.

The felony case against fake electors in Wisconsin’s 2020 Presidential Election creeps forward, even though it faces political headwinds under the Trump regime. Votebeat Wisconsin’s Alex Shur gives us an update.

June 29th is the anniversary of the day in 1936 when 100 Chicano mine workers were deported as "undesirable aliens" following a strike in Gallup, New Mexico. For decades, two thousand coal miners had risked their lives to work more than six hundred feet underground, digging hundreds of thousands of tons of coal each week in Gallup. They came from all over the world. Most had been recruited in Mexico. Feature contributor Harry Richardson, has the story.

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