Milwaukee born-and-raised writer and pop culture critic Ira Madison III has a new book that tells the story of his life through the lens of one of his greatest obsessions: pop culture.

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Since the late 1990s, the lake whitefish population has declined as much as 80 percent in parts of the Great Lakes. The culprit is a tiny invasive species called the quagga mussel.

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Two researchers recently joined WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” to talk about how our gut microbiomes can influence us in good and bad ways. 

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