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SUMMARY:WI Book Festival Author Event: Every Living Creature (Joshua Mezrich)
DESCRIPTION:October 15th\n7pm-8pm\nCentral Library – Lower-Level Program Room \nPresented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. \nWith more than 100\,000 patients in the United States waiting for life-saving organ transplants\, the shortage of organs will never be solved if someone must die for someone else to be saved. And yet a solution is well within reach—xenotransplantation\, or the transplanting of organs between different species—the once unimaginable scientific achievement that Joshua Mezrich explores in Every Living Creature. \nThe story begins with efforts using chimpanzees and baboons in the 60s through the 90s\, rife with ethical and practical complications and disappointments. The successful cloning of Dolly the sheep revived xeno-optimism\, followed by the discovery of CRISPR-Cas9\, which finally opened the door to xenotransplantation in humans\, using genetically modified pigs as organ donors. \nThe protagonists of this story are as incredible as the science it details: a transgender visionary\, the highest paid female CEO in the world\, who simply wants her daughter to live; the surgeon saved by a high-risk heart transplant\, who swears by the promise of pigs’ organs; the brilliant and brash surgeon-scientist-entrepreneur who is risking everything to make xenotransplantation a reality. Each plays a part in what is\, in the end\, the story of a miracle—not the answer to a prayer\, as Every Living Creature makes clear\, but a miracle we can breed. \nIn conversation with Dr. Margaret (Gretchen) Schwarze. \nCheck out more Wisconsin Book Festival & Wisconsin Science Festival partner events here!
URL:https://www.wisconsinsciencefest.org/event/wi-book-festival-author-event-every-living-creature-joshua-mezrich/
LOCATION:Madison Public Library – Central Library\, 201 W Mifflin St\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
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SUMMARY:WI Book Festival Author Event: The Best Science Stories and How They Work (Siri Carpenter)
DESCRIPTION:October 16th\n4:30-5:30pm\nDeLuca Forum\, Discovery Building \nPresented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. \nAn invitation to engage with some of today’s most respected science journalists as they take readers beneath the surface to tell the stories behind eleven of the best science stories. \nWith eleven deeply reported\, artfully crafted stories and annotations by some of the most thoughtful and respected science journalists working today\, The Best Science Stories and How They Work is more than the sum of its impressive parts. Experience the pleasure of reading a “Best of” anthology\, attending a science writing masterclass\, and meeting journalists who become more than their familiar bylines. Each piece benefits from an introduction\, annotations\, and a conversation between the piece’s author and annotator. \nSiri Carpenter—editor of this book and cofounder of The Open Notebook\, a leading source of training and educational materials for journalists who cover science—has long considered what’s behind the best writing. The pieces in this guide are drawn from a range of publications such as Scientific American\, Nature\, The Atlantic\, and The New York Times Magazine and offer a unique perspective on how great science journalism happens: the careful structuring of a narrative\, the delicate balance of skepticism and wonder\, the ethical challenges of working with sources\, the artistry of prose that sings. Readers will not only encounter outstanding examples of stellar storytelling\, but they will also understand how these successful stories were reported and written\, revealing the choices fundamental to good science journalism. Following each annotation\, a Q&A with the original author provides an intimate look at the decisions and challenges that shaped their work. \nTaken together\, these pieces and annotations reveal the detailed\, technical narrative work required to tell science stories. The book will delight\, inspire\, and equip readers with new tools to appreciate the stories that matter most. \nContributors: Jordana Cepelewicz\, Shraddha Chakradhar\, Nadia Drake\, Ben Goldfarb\, Sabrina Imbler\, Ferris Jabr\, Emily Laber-Warren\, Stephanie M. Lee\, Dana Mackenzie\, Amy Maxmen\, Emiliano Rodríguez Mega\, Kendra Pierre-Louis\, Debbie Ponchner\, Sandeep Ravindran\, Mary Roach\, Paola Rosa-Aquino\, Ashley Smart\, Jessica Seigel\, Ramin Skibba\, Kamala Thiagarajan\, Bijal Trivedi\, and Ed Yong \nIn conversation with Will Cushman. \nCheck out more Wisconsin Book Festival & Wisconsin Science Festival partner events here!
URL:https://www.wisconsinsciencefest.org/event/wi-book-festival-author-event-the-best-science-stories-and-how-they-work-siri-carpenter/
LOCATION:Discovery Building at UW-Madison\, 330 N Orchard St\, Madison\, WI\, 53715\, United States
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SUMMARY:WI Book Festival Author Event: Homesick for a World Unknown (Miriam Horn)
DESCRIPTION:October 16th\n5:30-6:30pm\nCentral Library\, Community Room 302 \nPresented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Registration is requested – sign up here. \nMeet environmental advocate\, journalist\, and filmmaker Miriam Horn\, whose latest book chronicles the life of the world’s most transformative\, yet elusive\, field biologist — and UW–Madison alumnus — George B. Schaller. \n“Schaller found his deepest satisfactions by disappearing into the last wildernesses\, his eyes wide open. We could all stand to learn from his humility.” — Gary Rosen\, The New York Times Book Review \nHomesick for a World Unkonwn by Miriam Horn is a riveting portrait of George B. Schaller\, the world’s leading field biologist\, that captures the seventy years he spent living among wild animals in the world’s remotest regions\, forever altering how we see—and save—the natural world. \nIn 1959\, though just twenty-six years old and a graduate student\, George B. Schaller shrugged off warnings of mortal danger and set off for the Belgian Congo to do what no other scientist had dared: study mountain gorillas\, the real King Kong\, by living alongside them. Boldly refusing arms and retinue\, Schaller and his wife\, Kay\, established a home in the jungle and came to share the apes’ rhythms and rules. After nearly two years of immersive research—a groundbreaking methodology he would spend his life honing—Schaller transformed how the world viewed gorillas; they were not murderous brutes but tender creatures\, and more like humans than any twentieth-century scientist had recognized. His mission to revolutionize our perceptions of wild animals would propel him across four continents and inspire generations of scientists. \nIn Homesick for a World Unknown\, Miriam Horn draws on thousands of pages from Schaller’s journals and letters\, globe-spanning interviews\, and two journeys into the field with the legendary scientist himself to trace his emergence as the founding father of modern wildlife conservation. She probes what drives him to know Earth’s wildest places and most fearsome creatures\, beginning with a childhood upended by displacement and atrocity. Born in Berlin in 1933 to an American socialite married to a German diplomat working for the Nazi regime\, the young Schaller was moved from one occupied country to another before finally arriving with his mother in the U.S. in 1947\, as an enemy alien. It was in the Missouri woods that teenage George found a place of respite and at the University of Alaska that he found both his calling and a lifelong partner in Kay. \nIn the decades following his work in the Congo\, Schaller went on to conduct the earliest studies of Indian tigers\, Chinese pandas\, Asiatic Cheetah\, and Tibetan antelope\, meticulously cataloging their private lives. He navigated acute danger\, violent conflict\, and treacherous politics in pursuit of empathy for and preservation of creatures big and small. It was Schaller who first guided Jane Goodall on her chimp study in Tanzania and led Peter Matthiessen into Nepal in search of the snow leopard. And while remaking wildlife science\, his impact went further still: he spurred the creation of vast national parks and partnered with local communities to protect the homes they share with these animals. A vivid and captivating account of the adventurous life of George B. Schaller\, here is the definitive portrait of the man who dared to challenge us to rethink our place in the natural world. \nHosted by Nathan Schulfer. In conversation with Meghan Hills. \n. \nCheck out more Wisconsin Book Festival & Wisconsin Science Festival partner events here!
URL:https://www.wisconsinsciencefest.org/event/wi-book-festival-author-event-homesick-for-a-world-unknown/
LOCATION:Madison Public Library – Central Library\, 201 W Mifflin St\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
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SUMMARY:WI Book Festival Author Event: Hidden Creatures (Dino Martins)
DESCRIPTION:October 16th\n6-7pm\nDeLuca Forum\, Discovery Building \nPresented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. \nThere is the tapeworm\, which can grow 120 feet in length within the gut of a whale; the tsetse fly\, a notorious vector of disease that can pierce the skin even of crocodiles with its needle-like mouth; and the most universal symbol of parasitic behavior: the leech. Long villainized as\, well\, parasitic\, these creatures are actually a vital part of every ecosystem—and Dr. Dino Martins\, an award-winning entomologist and biologist from Kenya\, has made it his life’s mission to demystify these beguiling beings. \nHidden Creatures is a journey around the world ten times over—from Martins’ home in the wilds of East Africa\, to the rainforests of the Amazon\, to cities and backyards across the globe—and along the way\, we encounter the brilliant and eccentric experts who join Martins on his adventures to investigate not only parasites but their hosts\, from hyraxes and hippos to\, of course\, humans. Immersive\, driven by an utterly infectious curiosity\, and sure to transform every reader’s understanding of these organisms\, Hidden Creatures has the magnetic force of a David Attenborough documentary and introduces a monumental\, charismatic new voice in science writing. \nIn conversation with Lyric Bartholomay. \nCheck out more Wisconsin Book Festival & Wisconsin Science Festival partner events here!
URL:https://www.wisconsinsciencefest.org/event/wi-book-festival-author-event-hidden-creatures-dino-martins/
LOCATION:Discovery Building at UW-Madison\, 330 N Orchard St\, Madison\, WI\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literacy,Wisconsin Book Festival
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SUMMARY:WI Book Festival Author Event: Spooky Rivers (Geo Rutherford)
DESCRIPTION:October 16th\n7:30-8:30pm\nDeLuca Forum\, Discovery Building \nPresented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. \nTake the plunge into the strangest\, spookiest\, and most fascinating rivers around the world (if you dare) in this beautifully illustrated companion to Spooky Lakes—the New York Times and Indiebound bestseller from TikTok star and educator Geo Rutherford. \nFrom Geo Rutherford—the creator of the hit series Spooky Lake Month (over 79 million likes!)—comes this thrilling nonfiction book that follows the winding histories of 25 mysterious rivers around the world. Readers will explore natural phenomena\, scientific oddities\, historical events\, and environmental disasters\, as well as the myths and legends tied to these waterways\, which are increasingly threatened by climate change. \nRivers are Earth’s restless travelers—carving landscapes\, shaping history\, and holding secrets. Some are forces of destruction\, sweeping away everything in their path\, while others are lifelines\, sustaining civilizations for millennia. And some are both\, bringing prosperity and devastation in equal measure. \nFrom deadly whirlpools to lost cities submerged beneath their waves\, these rivers challenge everything we think we know about the natural world. There are rivers that catch fire\, rivers that boil\, and rivers so deep they seem bottomless. Some slither beneath the ground you stand on\, while others vanish without a trace. \nWho knew rivers could be so . . . spooky? \nIn conversation with Anne Moser. \nCheck out more Wisconsin Book Festival & Wisconsin Science Festival partner events here!
URL:https://www.wisconsinsciencefest.org/event/wi-book-festival-author-event-spooky-rivers-geo-rutherford/
LOCATION:Discovery Building at UW-Madison\, 330 N Orchard St\, Madison\, WI\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literacy,Wisconsin Book Festival
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SUMMARY:WI Book Festival Author Event: Chasing Lewis's Monkeyflower (Elizabeth Adelman)
DESCRIPTION:October 17th\n10:30-11:30am\nCentral Library – Community Room 302 \nPresented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. \nA look at the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the plant specimens the great explorers gathered on their way—and of their amazing afterlife. \nElizabeth Adelman’s Chasing Lewis’s Monkeyflower is the two hundred-year saga of finding\, losing\, and finding the wild plants collected on America’s first exploration west\, the Lewis and Clark Expedition. \nThomas Jefferson handpicked Meriwether Lewis to lead the expedition\, gather notable specimens along the way\, and then write the journals\, with one volume to include science-worthy descriptions and classifications of the plants that Lewis collected and pressed to preserve. Not a botanist\, Lewis needed help to write this part of the journals. \nAmbition\, deceit\, theft\, wealth\, debt\, alcoholism\, loss\, suicide\, serendipity\, and stubborn persistence cross the plants’ paths in Philadelphia\, New York\, and London. This is the first work detailing the places\, practices\, and times of a cavalcade of people who touched the plants. A fascinating chronicle of an unexplored byway of the great American story. \nHosted by Mary Bottari.  \nCheck out more Wisconsin Book Festival & Wisconsin Science Festival partner events here!
URL:https://www.wisconsinsciencefest.org/event/wi-book-festival-author-event-chasing-lewiss-monkeyflower-elizabeth-adelman/
LOCATION:Madison Public Library – Central Library\, 201 W Mifflin St\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literacy,Wisconsin Book Festival
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SUMMARY:WI Book Festival Author Event: Engineer Someday (Jay Flores)
DESCRIPTION:October 17th\n10:30-11:30am\nCentral Library – Lower-Level Program Room\, Children’s Area \nPresented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. \nENGINEER SOMEDAY! is a joyful\, bilingual (English/Spanish) celebration of curiosity\, creativity\, and the amazing world of engineering! Through playful rhymes and vibrant illustrations\, children explore ten different types of engineers\, from aerospace to biomedical\, software to civil. Each is compared to something kids already know and love\, like superheroes\, chefs\, magicians\, and explorers. \nWhether your child dreams of building robots\, designing spaceships\, or inventing the next big app\, this book shows them that their imagination is the blueprint for a brighter future. With every page turn\, young readers are reminded: If you love to build and play… you can be an engineer someday! \nCopies of Engineer Someday will be distributed for free to all attendees courtesy of the Wisconsin Book Festival. \nHosted by Abby Ryan\, Madison Central Library’s Youth Services Librarian. \nCheck out more Wisconsin Book Festival & Wisconsin Science Festival partner events here!
URL:https://www.wisconsinsciencefest.org/event/wi-book-festival-author-event-engineer-someday-jay-flores/
LOCATION:Madison Public Library – Central Library\, 201 W Mifflin St\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
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SUMMARY:WI Book Festival Author Event: Unpasteurized Inga: Recipes and Reflections on Food\, Farming\, and Finding Your Way Back (Inga Orth)
DESCRIPTION:October 17th\n12-1pm\nMadison Museum of Contemporary Art – Lecture Hall \nPresented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. \nInga Orth’s memoir is not a straight line from beginning to end—it’s a mosaic of memory\, resilience\, and rediscovery told in her authentic voice. She begins not with childhood\, but with the raw now: burnout\, heartbreak\, and the slow process of piecing herself back together. From there\, she weaves through tangents that reveal the threads of her life—farm chores alongside her grandfather\, thrift-store adventures with her grandmother\, the sting of criticism that shaped her self-worth\, and the sexism she faced as a young woman farmer and business owner. \nOrth takes readers behind the scenes of her public life as host of Around the Farm Table\, balancing the beauty of Wisconsin farming with private battles against self-doubt\, unhealthy relationships\, and the numbing pull of alcohol. Yet through it all runs her constant love of food\, farming\, and storytelling—the things that tether her to purpose. \nWoven throughout are recipes tied to these memories and milestones—dishes that carry the scent of childhood kitchens\, the grit of farm life\, and the joy of rediscovering connection at the table. \nAt its heart\, this memoir celebrates the courage to break cycles\, the grace of chosen family\, and the joy of rediscovering yourself in community\, farming\, friendship\, and love. It’s a book for anyone who has ever felt unseen\, silenced\, or burned out—and is searching for a way home to themselves. \nIn conversation with Susie Apps Bodilly. \nCheck out more Wisconsin Book Festival & Wisconsin Science Festival partner events here!
URL:https://www.wisconsinsciencefest.org/event/wi-book-festival-author-event-unpasteurized-inga-inga-orth/
LOCATION:Madison Museum of Contemporary Art\, 227 State St\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literacy,Wisconsin Book Festival
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SUMMARY:WI Book Festival Author Event: Dispelling Dementia - Narratives of Loss and Resilience (Nathanial Chin & Robert Kolker)
DESCRIPTION:October 17th\n1:30-2:30pm\nCentral Library – Community Room 302 \nPresented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. \nDr. Nathaniel Chin and Robert Kolker will join in conversation about two families’ journeys tackling the impact and influence of dementia on their loved ones’ lives. Approaching the topic from varying perspectives—from medical to journalistic—Chin’s When Memory Fades and Kolker’s The Vanishing Family speak to the scientific\, emotional\, and social tolls of this complex disease. \nIn conversation with WPR host\, Lee Rayburn. \nWhen Memory Fades: What to Expect at Every Stage\, from Early Signs to Full Support for Alzheimer’s and Dementia is clear\, smart\, and cuts through the understandable impulse to deny symptoms and grasp at ineffective treatments. From the first concerns that something might be wrong right through to the toughest stages of the disease\, When Memory Fades provides granular information and frames topics that help readers figure out how to think about what’s happening. \nIn the idyllic American town of Pleasant Hills\, Pennsylvania\, there lived a family with nine siblings\, the youngest a girl named Barb. As the older children headed off to college and started their lives\, only Barb was home to see their beautiful\, still-young mother fall under a gothic spell\, changing into someone she didn’t recognize: withdrawn\, neglectful\, uncaring. Thus begins The Vanishing Family\, journalist Robert Kolker’s superb follow-up to Hidden Valley Road. This family\, we learn\, has a genetic mutation that causes dementia\, but with an especially cruel twist. As early as their forties\, formerly loving parents and hard-driving executives will lose their jobs\, have affairs\, take up drinking—shed all inhibitions and sense of responsibility—and become people their families hardly know. Their former personalities seem to vanish—and there is a fifty-fifty chance that it will happen to their children\, too. \nCheck out more Wisconsin Book Festival & Wisconsin Science Festival partner events here!
URL:https://www.wisconsinsciencefest.org/event/wi-book-festival-author-event-dispelling-dementia-narratives-of-loss-and-resilience-nathanial-chin-robert-kolker/
LOCATION:Madison Public Library – Central Library\, 201 W Mifflin St\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
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SUMMARY:WI Book Festival Author Event: In Trees (Robert Moor)
DESCRIPTION:October 17th\n1:30-2:30pm\nMadison Museum of Contemporary Art – Lecture Hall \nPresented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. \nOne day\, on a whim\, Robert Moor set out to climb a tree near his home—unwittingly embarking on what would become a decade-long\, globe-spanning adventure of intellectual and spiritual transformation. Pursuing the hidden wisdom of trees\, he scales to the very top of a giant sequoia while filming a nature documentary with David Attenborough; he treks through swamps in Papua to reach a treehouse-dwelling tribe of hunter-gatherers; and he journeys to a remote research camp in Tanzania\, where he spends a memorable night sleeping in a chimpanzee nest\, seeking to understand our deep evolutionary history. Eventually\, having gained a radical new outlook on both our gnarled past and our ever-branching future\, he joins an intrepid clan of climate activists risking everything to halt construction of a new oil pipeline and save an ancient forest. \nAlong the way\, Moor learns the art of “tree-thinking\,” which\, he discovers\, has the power to break open some of humanity’s oldest questions: What is the secret to truly growing old? How do we set down deeper roots in an increasingly chaotic world? Most importantly\, how should we—as individuals\, as communities\, as stewards of the earth—live? \nA witty and relentlessly curious excursion through philosophy\, history\, and science\, what begins as an ode to the miracle of trees blossoms into a joyous\, daring\, fiercely hopeful endeavor to arborize humanity. \nCheck out more Wisconsin Book Festival & Wisconsin Science Festival partner events here!
URL:https://www.wisconsinsciencefest.org/event/wi-book-festival-author-event-in-trees-robert-moor/
LOCATION:Madison Museum of Contemporary Art\, 227 State St\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literacy,Wisconsin Book Festival
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SUMMARY:WI Book Festival Author Event: A Womb of One's Own (Tara Mulder)
DESCRIPTION:October 17th\n3-4pm\nMadison Museum of Contemporary Art – Lecture Hall \nPresented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. \nPresented in partnership with the Wisconsin Science Festival. \nA bold new history of women’s health\, brought to life through ancient women’s stories of pregnancy and birth. \nIn the well-trod history of the Roman Empire\, a pivotal moment has long gone unnoticed: It was in ancient Rome that medical men first set their sights on childbirth\, the traditional domain of female midwives. \nTaking us to the dawn of Western obstetrics\, A Womb of One’s Own offers a feminist account of how\, against a long tradition of midwifery\, male doctors began claiming authority in reproductive matters\, with an emphasis on theoretical rather than practical knowledge. Their intrusion paved the way for the later criminalization of midwives and the cloaking of childbirth in secrecy and shame. \nYet communities of Roman women continued to help each other through the journey from preconception to postpartum\, guided by their own experience and the expertise of midwives. Tara Mulder recovers stories of ancient women living and resisting as they sought autonomy over their bodies and their health. Recounting their experiences in vivid\, intimate detail\, she reveals how old our modern conflicts about birth truly are. \nIn conversation with Kate Phelps. \nCheck out more Wisconsin Book Festival & Wisconsin Science Festival partner events here!
URL:https://www.wisconsinsciencefest.org/event/wi-book-festival-author-event-a-womb-of-ones-own-tara-mulder/
LOCATION:Madison Museum of Contemporary Art\, 227 State St\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literacy,Wisconsin Book Festival
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SUMMARY:WI Book Festival Author Event: Stone Age Astronaut (Liam Callanan)
DESCRIPTION:October 17th\n4:30-5:30pm\nCentral Library – Community Room 302 \nPresented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. \nAward-winning author Liam Callanan uncovers the astonishing life of Lester Maitland—the Milwaukee-born aviator who\, in 1927\, became the first person to fly to Hawaii\, earning national acclaim on par with Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic triumph. For a brief moment\, the two men shared headlines\, White House invitations\, and fame. But while Lindbergh’s legacy grew\, Maitland’s all but vanished. \nCallanan brings Maitland back into the spotlight\, tracing his meteoric early career: flight instructor at nineteen; one of the US Army’s first test pilots; the first American to fly faster than 200 mph; and the pioneering airman whose Pacific crossing earned him the Distinguished Flying Cross. \nJust twenty-two days after becoming Executive Officer of the Far East Air Service Command—and one day after Pearl Harbor—Maitland witnessed the destruction of much of the Far East Air Force in the Philippines. Later\, he commanded the 386th Bomb Group in Europe\, making him World War II’s oldest bomber pilot\, only to be abruptly and mysteriously retired weeks before D-Day. After the war\, Maitland experienced a series of professional and personal disappointments\, and he quietly faded into obscurity. He eventually became an Episcopal priest\, serving small parishes far from the glamour of his early days in the cockpit. \nThe pages of Stone Age Astronaut hum with the tension and excitement of early aviation\, rendered in a richly detailed narrative and Callanan’s research—spanning archives\, newspapers\, interviews\, and travel to key sites—to reveal the remarkable sweep of Lester Maitland’s world. Along the way\, readers encounter a constellation of notable figures\, including Amelia Earhart\, Billy Mitchell\, Ernest Hemingway\, Gerald Ford\, and Harry Houdini. With sparkling prose and a storyteller’s instinct for detail\, Callanan resurrects a man whose life intersected with major events\, eras\, and personalities—but who has inexplicably slipped through the cracks of American memory. A gripping portrait of ambition\, innovation\, fame\, failure\, and reinvention—and the enduring human urge to fly—Stone Age Astronaut ensures that Lester Maitland’s extraordinary story will no longer be forgotten. \nIn conversation with Jeff Oloizia. \nCheck out more Wisconsin Book Festival & Wisconsin Science Festival partner events here!
URL:https://www.wisconsinsciencefest.org/event/wi-book-festival-author-event-stone-age-astronaut-liam-callanan/
LOCATION:Madison Public Library – Central Library\, 201 W Mifflin St\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literacy,Wisconsin Book Festival
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SUMMARY:WI Book Festival Author Event: Everyday Genius - Hacks to Boost Your Memory\, Focus\, Problem-Solving\, and Much More (Nelson Dellis)
DESCRIPTION:October 18th\n12-1pm\nCentral Library – Lower-Level Program Room \nPresented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. \nWhat if genius isn’t something you’re born with—it’s something you build? \nEveryday Genius\, by six-time USA Memory Champion Nelson Dellis\, upgrades your everyday life through practical skills\, whether it’s memorizing names at a new job\, doing lightning-fast mental math when it counts\, honing decisive intuition\, and beyond. \nIn 2009\, after watching his grandmother struggle with Alzheimer’s\, Nelson Dellis set out to strengthen his own mind. That mission led to six USA Memory Championships\, two Guinness World Records\, and a career dedicated to proving that anyone can develop genius-level cognitive abilities. \nEveryday Genius teaches you to memorize names and faces instantly\, speed-read with deep comprehension\, calculate mentally with surprising accuracy\, and focus intensely when it matters most. You’ll learn strategies for chess and strategic games\, techniques for acing exams and public speaking\, and methods for creative problem-solving that help you see connections others miss.From mastering a Rubik’s Cube to holding complex ideas in your head\, from reading a room to thinking on your feet—this book gives you the mental toolkit for a sharper\, more engaged life. At a time when outsourcing our thinking has never been easier\, Everyday Genius shows you how to reclaim and strengthen your most valuable asset: your brain. \nYou have far more potential than you realize—an inner genius waiting to be awakened. This book unlocks it. \nHosted by Laura Anne Bird. \nCheck out more Wisconsin Book Festival & Wisconsin Science Festival partner events here!
URL:https://www.wisconsinsciencefest.org/event/wi-book-festival-author-event-everyday-genius-hacks-to-boost-your-memory-focus-problem-solving-and-much-more-nelson-dellis/
LOCATION:Madison Public Library – Central Library\, 201 W Mifflin St\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literacy,Wisconsin Book Festival
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SUMMARY:WI Book Festival Author Event: A Little More Social - How Small Choices Create Unexpected Happiness\, Health\, and Connection (Nicholas Epley)
DESCRIPTION:October 18th\n1:30-2:30pm\nCentral Library – Lower-Level Program Room \nPresented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. \nThere is a paradox at the core of human life. We are a highly social species uniquely equipped to connect with other people and doing so is better for us. Yet we so often choose to be unsocial. We avoid talking to the stranger who sits next to us. We struggle to move beyond small talk with an acquaintance. We are reluctant to express our gratitude to people we appreciate. Every day\, we avoid opportunities to connect with strangers\, neighbors\, colleagues\, friends\, and family. By missing those moments\, we miss out on all the benefits of a more social life—one that is happier and healthier for everyone. \nUniversity of Chicago psychologist and author of Mindwise\, Nicholas Epley has spent his career studying the way we connect\, and he has found that our social fears often keep us from reaching out. But Epley shows us how to seize the small moments with insights such as: \n\nSocial connection is a choice we make based on expectations about how others will respond to us—expectations that tend to be overly pessimistic.\nIntroverts and extroverts alike benefit from choosing to be a little more social.\nMistaken expectations can cause us to avoid interacting in ways that create strong connections—such as having a conversation—in favor of less satisfying interactions—such as social media or texting.\nWhile many books promise one big fix\, making a habit of small connections is much more likely to improve your life.\nThe habits and practices that Epley advocates are approachable. The beauty of this book is that small acts have an outsized impact on the most important parts of our lives.\n\nBridging the gap between two people is easier than we think\, and success more likely\, if we choose to be a little more social. \nIn conversation with Shannon Henry Kleiber. \nCheck out more Wisconsin Book Festival & Wisconsin Science Festival partner events here!
URL:https://www.wisconsinsciencefest.org/event/wi-book-festival-author-event-a-little-more-social-how-small-choices-create-unexpected-happiness-health-and-connection-nicholas-epley/
LOCATION:Madison Public Library – Central Library\, 201 W Mifflin St\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literacy,Wisconsin Book Festival
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