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There’s a lot of attention right now on diversity in children’s books – or, more accurately, the lack of it. It’s not a new problem. White people have been talking about this issue since Nancy Larrick…
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The rise of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has ushered in an era of intense drilling that has been called the great shale gas rush. Fracking allows oil and natural gas to be extracted from horizontal…
The female sex hormone oestrogen can be produced and released from the brain as well as the ovaries, according to a study. The research, recently published in the Journal of Neuroscience, shows that the…
You might think you don’t have much in common with a fruit fly. But studying them could tell us more about human conditions such as traumatic brain injury (TBI) - from, for example, a motorbike accident…
Words that make objects appear from thin air are generally the stuff of the magical worlds of Harry Potter or The Hobbit. But a new experiment has been shown that words can make objects easier to recognise…
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Vilas Research Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Associate Professor of Management and Human Resources, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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PANTHER Engineering Project Manager and Associate Director of the Center for Traumatic Brain Injury, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Politics and Culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Meteorologist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Bjorn Borgen Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Center for Traumatic Brain Injury, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Associate Chair and Professor of Genetics and Epigenetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Assistant Professor of Natural Resource Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Associate Professor of Adult and Higher Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor of Rhetoric, Politics & Culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Susan S. Engeleiter Professor of Education Law, Policy and Practice, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor of Animal and Dairy Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
