Don’t sleep on retirement planning. Rather, start investing and saving now. Then, we explore how daylight savings time is against nature. Then, two truffle researchers explain how they found a new species of the fungi in Wisconsin.
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Investing and saving for retirement
It’s never too late to start planning for retirement. But the sooner you start saving money and investing wisely, the better off you’ll be. We talk to financial advisor Brendon DeRouin about long-term money management.
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How daylight savings is at odds with nature
The debate over daylight savings “misses a key ecological perspective,” says UW-Madison lecturer Rachelle Wilson Tollemar. Humans, like the natural world, require brighter and darker times of the year to properly function. “We are beings who also need winter to rest and summer to bloom,” she says.
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New species of truffle found in statewide survey
Truffle hunters thrill at finding the fungal delicacy. But it was two UW-La Crosse academics, surveying truffles statewide, who discovered a new truffle species in the Bayfield area. We talk to assistant biology professor Arthur Grupe and graduate student Mariah Rogers about their mycological work.
Episode Credits
- Larry Meiller Host
- Brendon DeRouin Guest
- Rachelle Wilson Tollemar Guest
- Arthur Grupe Guest
- Mariah Rogers Guest
- Jill Nadeau Executive Producer
- Joel Patenaude Producer
- Lee Rayburn Technical Director
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