Audiences love improvised, off-the-cuff entertainment, and new research suggests it’s because spontaneity seems to offer a glimpse of the performer’s authentic self.
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Congress has approved billions of dollars to fix water and sewer systems across the US. But getting that money to needy communities depends on how states define a key word.
The pulsar PSR J0523-7125 is more than ten times brighter than any other radio pulsar outside the Milky Way.
Letizia Battaglia’s images of Mafia bloodshed made it impossible for people to turn a blind eye to the criminal outfit’s reign of terror.
Fluctuating radio waves that appear to come from near the heart of the Milky Way are a new puzzle for astronomers.
President Moïse is dead. Two politicians say they’re in charge. Parliament is suspended. A Haitian studies scholar explains Haiti’s power vacuum and says elections alone won’t restore democracy there.
Findings show that income transfer programmes must operate in deliberate coordination with ancillary social service institutions to deliver the maximum benefits for women’s empowerment.
As the raid on the U.S. Capitol has shown, some kinds of rhetoric can set fire to the world — and it exists in Canada, too. Here’s how to tamp it down and focus on positive forms of rhetoric.
Food security emerged as a major issue for women nearing the end of their lives in Malawi.
The 2018 murder of Rio city councilwoman Marielle Franco inspired record numbers of Black women to get involved in politics. Winning proved harder – but it isn’t the only point of their campaigns.
Politicians and law enforcement engage in uncivil behaviour that undermines democratic society. Civility is a pre-requisite for empathy, and is essential for difficult conversations.
La tecnología que hay detrás del pronóstico del tiempo, el GPS e incluso los teléfonos inteligentes tiene su origen en la carrera espacial.
The technologies behind weather forecasting, GPS and even smartphones can trace their origins to the race to the Moon.
Astronomers are getting ready to say good bye to the radio emission from a neutron star merger – one of the most energetic events in the universe – that was detected last year.
All it took was a single email alert to send the world’s astronomers searching for the source of the latest gravitational wave detected.
Seeing cheerful kids in fundraising pitches works better for some potential donors than others, research suggests. Nonprofits may want to tailor their appeals to different audiences because of that.
The history of displaying exotic animals seems to be one of evolving public expectations about what constitutes acceptable conditions. Is it a case of the more things change, the more they stay the same?
Provocative, violent and discriminatory policing has sparked riots in both the UK and America.
In the epilogue to Jill Lepore’s new book, The Secret History of Wonder Woman, we learn about Wonder Woman’s importance to the American feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Lepore briefly notes Wonder…
Editor’s note: voter turnout in this year’s midterm elections - 36.6% - was lower than in the 2010 midterms (40.9%.) According to the Pew Research Center the “party of non-voters” is more racially diverse…
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Water Policy Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Assistant Professor of Global Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Associate Professor of Public Policy & Political Economy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Planetarium Director, NASA Airborne Astronomy Ambassador, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Assistant professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Professor and Director of the Center for Water Policy, School of Freshwater Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Professor Emeritus of Africology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Associate Professor, College of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Professor of French, Italian and Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Professor, Rhetoric and Professional Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism, Advertising and Media Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
