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Marquette University's director of exercise science, Paula Papanek, explains the origins of the body mass index (BMI) and why we shouldn’t take it as an accurate measurement of health.

All Wisconsinites 16 and older are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. But there are a lot of lingering questions about what vaccination will really mean for our community. As the dean of the College of Nursing at UW-Milwaukee, Kim Litwack has been fielding a lot of these questions and she joins Lake Effect to answer a few of them.

The Tandem has always been focused on the needs of their community. Now, during the pandemic, as those needs have shifted, so has the restaurant's work. Founder and owner Caitlin Cullen talks about how the restaurant has transformed into a food delivery hub to help feed people facing hunger and food insecurity.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, people have had to think about the possible germs they are spreading everywhere they go. The Bradley Corporation is working to help design bathrooms that reduce the risk of spreading disease in public spaces.

In this week’s Capitol Notes, JR Ross of wispolitics.com tells Marti Mikkelson that it’s important for the president and vice president to keep the state on their radar.

The Home Front, a historical fiction novel by DW Hanneken, follows Maggie Wentworth during the last years of World War II. Her abusive husband has shipped off to fight in Europe, she is trying to take care of her son and her aging father and manage the German prisoners of war who have been assigned to work at her Wisconsin farm.

Of the recently passed federal stimulus package, $5.7 billion will be going directly to governments across Wisconsin. The city of Milwaukee will get $406 million, and Milwaukee County will get an additional $183 million.

The film Coded Bias looks at the bigger implications of unchecked artificial intelligence and big data, and how bias in algorithms impacts everyone.

As the race for Wisconsin state superintendent heats up, WUWM’s Marti Mikkelson talks with JR Ross of wispolitics.com about what he expects to see moving forward in the race.

While the music industry can appear to be a diverse landscape of artists, when you dig below the surface, the board rooms and behind-the-scenes offices are dominated by men.