Doug Moe, "Saving Heats and Killing Rats: Karl Paul Link and the Discovery of Warfarin" by WORT 89.9FM Madison

“The Milkweed” has its finger on the dairy industry’s pulse – from avian flu and vaccines to illegal Polish butter.

Tune in for the latest updates from Pete Hardin and host Bert Zipperer.

Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash

The state Legislature’s budget writing committee approved only a fraction of the Department of Justice’s funding requests for victim services during a session late Friday.

State Attorney General Josh Kaul urged state lawmakers today to fully fund their request – or risk decimating services across Wisconsin.

Image courtesy: Wisconsin Department of Justice via their website.

Madison’s Queer Liberation march seeks to make Pride political again. We hear from participants at the June 28, 2025 rally.

What could make an acrobatic circus act more terrifying? What if performers have no idea what they’ll be doing, and take spontaneous suggestions from the audience? That’s exactly what the Full Out Formula troupe will do when they come to the Madison Circus Space this week. Acrobats Sierra Rhoades Nicholls and Kevin Flanagan tell us how it’s done.

Forecast from Monday, 6-30-25 by WORT 89.9FM Madison

Last week huge swaths of North America experienced record high temperatures, and the Alaskan arctic is warming three times faster than the rest of the globe. To talk about the ways that climate change is affecting rural communities in Alaska, host Douglas Haynes is joined by ProPublica and KYUK journalist, Emily Schwing, about her recent article, “Newtok, Alaska, Was Supposed to Be a Model for Climate Relocation. Here’s How It Went Wrong.”

Featured image: photo of permafrost erosion in Alaska by Benjamin Jones, USGS via Flickr.

WORT’s World View covers news from India. In this week’s feature, Gil Halsted and Amitabh Pal talk with Rollo Romig whose book, I Am on the Hit List, presents events in the city of Bangalore, Karnataka, India in his chronicle of the life and the 2017 death of Indian journalist, Gauri Lankesh.

But beyond giving us an interesting tale about Gauri Lankesh, he schools us in the transformation of religion, culture, media and politics in India in the 21st century in a way that brings the news we present to life.

Amit began reading I Am on the Hit List and brought it to the World View collective as a good read and a topic for this feature and we agreed it was a good candidate for both. As Amit contacted Rollo Romig and his publisher, news came that the book was named and is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, for 2025.

Learn more about Rollo Romig and his work on his webpage: http://www.rolloromig.com/

I Am on the Hit List is available at Madison area public libraries: http://mpl.linkcat.info/ and local and national book stores.

A new observatory in Chile takes a wide angle view of the universe, and could help us detect earth destroying asteroids. We’ll talk with the scientist directing the construction of this revolutionary telescope, U.W.’s own Keith Bechtol.

This fourth of July week, The Past Isn’t Past recalls the words of Howard Zinn, a historian and author, who wrote in July 4th, 2006, “on this July 4th, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols,” particularly its justification and glorification of the US’s military actions throughout history.

Image Courtesy: Slobadan Dimitrov, shared under Creative Commons via Wikipedia. Image shows Howard Zinn speaking at Pathfinder bookstore in Los Angeles, August 2000