Anne Strainchamps

Madison, Vershire

Host at Wisconsin Today

Host at To the Best of Our Knowledge

Host of @TTBOOK from @PRX/@WPR. Book addict, corgi lover, pub radio lifer.

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Anne Strainchamps

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Healing grief through space and time, according to an astrophysicist from Wisconsin

2 weeks ago | wpr.org | Anne Strainchamps

Growing up in Waukesha, Michelle Thaller can't remember a time when she wasn't obsessed with space. Her mom says as soon as Thaller could talk, she was pointing at the stars and trying to go outside at night. She spent her childhood watching Carl Sagan and frequenting the Milwaukee Public Museum and the Yerkes Observatory. To no one's surprise, Thaller became an astrophysicist. Then, she met and married another astrophysicist, Andrew Booth.
Crafting cosmic art through deep time

Feb 21, 2025 | wpr.org | Anne Strainchamps

The stardust looks surprisingly ordinary. No sparkle, no gleam - just a fine, dark brown powder, suspended in a hand-blown hourglass. The shock comes when you realize what you're looking at: remnants of a meteorite that's not just older than Earth, but older than the solar system itself. Katie Paterson, of Glasgow, Scotland, describes her 2022 art piece " The Moment" as an experience of deep time.
Saving the 'mother trees'

Dec 12, 2024 | wpr.org | Anne Strainchamps

Suzanne Simard forever altered our understanding of forests with her research into the ways trees communicate with each other. The University of British Columbia forest ecologist was one of the first to map the so-called "wood wide web" - the vast below-ground network of mycorrhizal fungi that trees use to channel information and exchange resources.
Ecologies of love: Writer Heather Swan on new book, 'Where the Grass Still Sings'

Jul 25, 2024 | wpr.org | Anne Strainchamps

When Heather Swan was a little girl, she spent two summers living with her mother and her sister in a Driftless-area barn. It was a traditional barn: big, drafty and home to countless wild critters. Bats flew in at dusk, wasps built nests, mice skittered underfoot. Swan thought of them all as family. “My mother had this brilliant strategy of naming the things that might have scared us,” she remembers. “So there was Wendell the Wasp and Junie the Junebug, and the bats were Angel and her family.
Quannah ChasingHorse Walks Two Worlds

Jul 11, 2024 | wpr.org | Anne Strainchamps

Whether she’s dog mushing in Alaska or turning heads at the Met Gala, supermodel Quannah ChasingHorse is the new face of Native fashion — and the next generation of Native land rights. Raised near Eagle Village, Alaska, she’s Hän Gwich’in on her mother’s side and Oglala Lakota on her dad’s side. She grew up hunting and fishing in the Arctic wilderness — and also dreaming of a career in modeling and fashion.
Slow down and take a flavor trip

May 29, 2024 | wpr.org | Anne Strainchamps

Remember how bags of flour and sacks of sugar started flying off grocery store shelves shortly after the early days of the COVID-19 lockdown? Faced with isolation and worried about the future, it seemed like all of America had the same impulse: get into the kitchen. Including aware-winning poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil. “Everybody and their mother had a sourdough starter! And we were all posting pictures of our loaves of bread online.
How personal branding became an American religion

Feb 2, 2024 | wpr.org | Anne Strainchamps |Bethonie Butler looks |Mark Riechers

In January 2020, Equinox launched an ad campaign with the zeitgeist-capturing slogan, “Make Yourself a Gift to the World.” The message wasn’t just for devotees of luxury gyms. In the digital age, branding yourself, or actively defining a unique and “authentic” personal identity, is the new norm.