As we emerge from a challenging year of isolation and uncertainty, Memorial Day weekend will likely mark a significant turning point in how we spend our time and with whom. Schools are letting out, temperatures are rising toward T-shirt weather and high vaccination rates offer safe opportunities to gather once […]
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What Giant Radio Pulses could teach us about radio signals from beyond the Milky Way
Pulsars are one of the more intriguing objects in the sky, radiating regular flashes of electromagnetic energy, which can (sometimes) be seen from Earth. Flashing with astonishing regularity, these objects are stellar corpses of massive stars that met their demise in supernovae. When beams of energy are aligned just right, […]
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Wisconsin teachers learn to teach about American Indians amid pandemic
CLOSE Donations to Report for America are needed to fund journalism in underserved communities. Green Bay Press-Gazette If one positive has come out of the pandemic lockdown for David O’Connor, it’s the large increase in educators he’s been training in Wisconsin as a result of online learning. O’Connor serves as […]
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What Shakespeare Can Teach Us About Empathy
The anger and unwillingness of many Americans to listen to those with different opinions is a serious societal problem. But the solution to this toxic state of things must begin on the level of the individual, with the way we listen and speak to relatives, neighbors and colleagues whose views […]
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How do you teach performing arts when there are no performances? This school is learning
PHOENIX — For Monica Sauer Anthony, adapting to the challenge of a virtual classroom started with a reenvisioning of what it even means to teach at a performing arts school. A choir can’t really rehearse in a virtual classroom much less give a live performance. Neither can an orchestra. There’s too […]
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‘I can’t teach when I’m dead.’ Professors fear COVID-19 as college campuses open
Students’ return for fall semester was staggered over 10 days at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, to enforce social distancing during as they settled in. (Gerry Broome / Associated Press) When masked students walk back into his Northern Arizona University lab room at the end of the month, Tad […]