Last week, President Trump announced he would withdraw the United States from the Paris Accord on Climate Change. In a speech in the White House Rose Garden, Trump claimed the global carbon emissions pact, signed by over 195 nations, would “undermine our economy, hamstring our workers, weaken our sovereignty … and put us at a […]
Reading the Earthquake History in the Rocks
Geologists at the University of Wisconsin have discovered what may prove to be the Rosetta Stone of earthquake studies. UW-Madison postdoctoral student Randy Williams and his advisor, Laurel Goodwin, have used veins of calcite in rocks from New Mexico to produce a record of historic earthquakes stretching back 400,000 years. Randy Williams and Laurel Williams […]
US DOT Picks UW-Mad Traffic Ops & Safety Lab to Test Driverless C...
Are you looking forward to having a robot drive your car? Or does the prospect of handing the wheel over to a machine fill you with trepidation? Love ‘em or hate ‘em, driverless cars are on their way. Before they become commonplace, driverless cars have a few obstacles to overcome. Peter Rafferty is the Program […]
The escalating debate over speech on campus
This week we’re revisiting a conversation that we had back in February about the nuances of free speech on college campuses. The subject has only become more tangled and more urgent over the past few months. Across the country, people across the political spectrum have used incidents like Ann Coulter’s decision to cancel a speech […]
A History of Badger Baseball
The University of Wisconsin Badgers have a long and proud tradition in intercollegiate athletics, with 28 National Titles and 194 Big Ten Championships in a wide variety of men’s and women’s sports over the years. Oddly enough, though, one sport in which the Badgers do not currently compete at a varsity level is America’s pastime, […]
The UW Madison Kohler Fellows
The Kohler Fellows are a group of UW-Madison graduate students working in different disciplines who bring insights from those disciplines to discussions of larger topics. Several members of the Fellows participate in the discussion at the WORT studios so that we can listen to them pull it together. Contact: Evelyn Galindo egalindo@wisc.edu http://www.postwarelsalvador.blogspot.com/http://wid.wisc.edu/profile/evelyn-galindo-doucette/