by Joan Fischer | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Andrea Thalasinos holds a PhD in sociology and has taught at Madison Area Technical College for nearly twenty years, but along the way she has spent much of her free time rescuing and raising Siberian huskies and learning how to be a musher—training the dogs to run on...
by Susan Lampert Smith | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
When you arrive at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery for the 2012 Wisconsin Science Festival this fall, prepare for a tornado of sound. Julie Underwood, chair of the festival steering committee and dean of education at UW–Madison, describes what it was like last...
by Katie Ginther | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
A fact-finding research organization, the U.S. Geological Survey is probably best known as the nation’s largest civilian mapping agency. But the USGS is also the nation’s largest water, earth, and biological science agency, with Water Science Centers found in every...
by Mark Wisniewski | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
they were so lively gathering whenever possible to discuss phrases someone jotted none considering angst in the sense of it truly visiting they had so many epiphanies & the depth of the poets among them seemed unmatched they had countless dark beers to mull...
by Lowell Jaeger | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
… who soloed before the congregation each Christmas Eve: O Holy Night, stars above shining and to this day I think certain angels too were blinking down. O, but he strode like a man with cleats on the heels of his black boots. By the age of catechism, flicked his...
by Liza Burkin | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
As Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons strode on the stage of Milwaukee’s historic Turner Hall, the audience—comprised of both well-dressed suburban folks out for a night of musical entertainment and flannel-clad hipsters from the city—applauded enthusiastically....
