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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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.
“深度伪造”值得担心吗？

Jan 7, 2024 | mp.weixin.qq.com | Anne Strainchamps

© TWITTER 利维坦按：我个人觉得沃尔特·谢勒对于“深度伪造”的未来还是过于乐观了，各种移花接木式的明星换脸有时候可不仅仅是娱乐和恶搞，她们往往也会成为色情网站的重点技术处理对象。不仅如此，看看最近的以哈战争，各种恶意煽动仇恨的虚假信息漫天飞，尤其是那些伪造的图片，试图通过视觉上的刺激来挑动人们的愤怒情绪——这无疑分化了公众舆论，煽起了暴力的火焰。在网易云音乐搜索【利维坦歌单】，跟上不迷路我们有一个新号【利维坦行星】，可以关注在互联网上，我们如何知道什么是真实的？2023年春天，一张在五角大楼附近的爆炸照片（下图）引起了华尔街的轻微恐慌，这是首次发生的人工智能生成图像通过互联网传播影响市场的案例。虽然这个恶作剧在受到审查后消失了，但对许多人来说，它似乎预示着更糟糕的事情即将发生。这张假照片显示，弗吉尼亚州美国军事总部五角大楼附近冒出大量浓烟。© IAPONOMARENKO/TWITTER 不过，当圣母大学（the University of Notre Dame）计算机科学家、媒体取证专家沃尔特·谢勒（Walter...
How time came to rule our lives - and how we might free ourselves

Jan 5, 2024 | ttbook.org | Anne Strainchamps |Jenny Odell

Time hovers over the page as I write this sentence. 4:15 p.m. Small characters perched in the upper right corner of my computer screen — an unobtrusive yet inescapable reminder that no matter where I am and no matter what I’m doing, I am always on the clock. Across the room, more time cues blink — the coffee maker and oven would also like me to be aware of the time. Not to be outdone, my phone chimes in — a text message sent, three minutes ago, from my editor. Yes, I’m on deadline. Aren’t we all?
Stop Worrying About Deepfakes

Dec 20, 2023 | nautil.us | Anne Strainchamps

Join Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. or Join now . Technology Where many see the death of reality on the Internet, this hacker-turned-Notre Dame professor sees communion. How are we to know what is real, on the internet? When a faked photo of an explosion near the Pentagon briefly spooked Wall Street this spring, it was the first major case of a viral AI-generated image moving the market.
A New Story for the Universe, and Other Lessons About the Big Bang, Climate Change, and Einstein’s Mysticism in Science, from Marcelo Gleiser, Author of “The Dawn of a Mindful Universe”

Nov 8, 2023 | nautil.us | Anne Strainchamps

Join Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. or Join now . Physics A conversation with “rational mystic,” physicist Marcelo Gleiser. Marcelo Gleiser thinks we have the story of the universe all wrong. And that it’s time to restore Earth and humanity to the center of the cosmos.