Pay-what-you-can restaurant, Outdoor accessibility, James Webb discoveries

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We learn more about a pay-what-you-can restaurant going into a Wisconsin museum. Then, a disability rights advocate shares their efforts to make the outdoors more accessible. Later, we talk to an astronomer about what we’re learning from the James Webb telescope.

Featured in this Show

  • First pay-what-you-can museum restaurant opens in Wisconsin

    The Madison Children’s Museum opened what might be the first pay-what-you-can restaurant to ever open in a museum. The chef of that restaurant and a museum employee talk with us about why the restaurant opened and how it’s going so far.

  • Disability rights advocates work toward better outdoor accessibility

    More people started visiting their local and state parks at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but who has access to those outdoor spaces? A disability rights activist talks to us about their work to make outdoor spaces more accessible and inclusive to all, regardless of physical ability.

  • An astronomer explains what the James Webb images of Jupiter reveal about the gas giant and what else scientists are hoping to learn from the telescope as it photographs the universe a million miles away from Earth.

Episode Credits

  • Rob Ferrett Host
  • Sarah Hopefl Technical Director
  • Emilie Burditt Producer
  • Colleen Leahy Producer
  • Dave Heide Guest
  • Jonathan Zarov Guest
  • Monica Spaeni Guest
  • Thomas Beatty Guest

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