Why sci-fi books can help kids better understand science yet remain scarce resources in schools
By Emily Midkiff, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Leadership, and Professional Practice, University of North Dakota Science fiction can lead people to be more cautious about the potential consequences of innovations. It can help people think critically about the...
Associated Press joins handful of news organizations to develop standards for using AI in journalism
The Associated Press has issued guidelines on artificial intelligence, saying the tool cannot be used to create publishable content and images for the news service while encouraging staff members to become familiar with the technology. AP is one of a handful of news...
$68B SEO industry under threat as Google, Bing, and other search engines embrace generative AI
By Ravi Sen, Associate Professor of Information and Operations Management, Texas A&M University Google, Microsoft, and others boast that generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT will make searching the internet better than ever for users. For...
Wisconsin’s Muslim leaders pledge to abandon Biden in 2024 presidential election over no Gaza cease-fire
Muslim leaders from across the state and the Wisconsin Christians for Justice in Palestine held a press conference at Milwaukee City Hall on November 9, making a public pledge that without a ceasefire and immediate assistance of the people in Gaza, they would not vote...
Forced removals from elected office emerge as a political weapon of choice in Wisconsin and Red states
Republicans in Wisconsin are threatening to impeach a recently elected state Supreme Court justice and raised the possibility of doing the same to the state’s election director. A Georgia Republican called for impeaching the Fulton County prosecutor who brought...
Meta engineer testifies as a witness before Congress about how his own child faces sexism on Instagram
On the same day whistleblower Frances Haugen was testifying before Congress about the harms of Facebook and Instagram to children in the fall of 2021, Arturo Béjar, then a contractor at the social media giant, sent an alarming email to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about...
Images by Milwaukee Independent of Old Main’s former condition of decay featured in new PBS documentary
Milwaukee PBS premiered a new documentary “A Hallowed Home for Heroes” on November 6. It details the historic past of Old Main, also known as Milwaukee’s Soldiers Home, through decades of use as a care center for veterans since the Civil War, its...
American families scramble to cope after Republicans fail to renew Federal aid for child care programs
Kaitlyn Adkins is studying law to help families in her community impacted by the opioid epidemic at the heart of West Virginia coal country. But to do that, she needs someone to help look after her three toddlers. The first-generation college graduate said she would...
AI Jesus: Latest chatbot iteration turns Christian messiah into an internet guru
By Joseph L. Kimmel, Part-Time Faculty Member (Theology Department), Boston College Jesus has been portrayed in many different ways: from a prophet who alerts his audience to the world’s imminent end to a philosopher who reflects on the nature of life. But no one has...
When children and grandchildren of Latino immigrants find language induces an identity crisis
By Amelia Tseng, Assistant Professor in Spanish and Linguistics, American University A young Latina mother I was interviewing once laughed uncomfortably as she described her sons’ embarrassment when put on the spot by older Latinos. They would speak to her sons in...
U.N. reports more than 40% of Ukrainians need humanitarian help under horrendous war conditions
Russian strikes are inflicting unimaginable suffering on the people of Ukraine and more than 40% of them need humanitarian assistance, a senior U.N. official told the U.N. Security Council on October 31. Ramesh Rajasingham, director of coordination in the U.N....
Kristallnacht: The point when emotional antisemitism became systematic government violence 85 years ago
By Michael Scott Bryant, Professor of History and Legal Studies, Bryant University Late in 1938, Nazis across Germany attacked Jews and their homes, businesses and places of worship and arrested about 30,000 Jewish men. The attacks became known as Kristallnacht, the...
