The Cleveland Indians is just one of many sports teams with controversial names.
Richard King, WSU professor of critical culture, gender, and race studies, commented on the issue, which is a focus of his ongoing research. “It’s something that most people haven’t thought about,” he said.
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No matter how still we stand, or if we’re in Scotland, Malaysia, or the United States, we are always spinning. Our Earth spins at a constant, very fast speed as we make a trip around the sun.
But it’s not just the Earth that spins, said my friend Guy Worthey, an astronomy professor at Washington State University. The moon, the sun, and almost all the other planets spin, too.
Researchers at Washington State University Vancouver have discovered that mice make ultrasonic sounds by using their windpipes as whistles, avoiding the use of their vocal cords entirely. This has implications for studies of the human brain and speech.
Researchers have never seen an animal make sound this way, said Elena Mahrt, a WSU Vancouver biological sciences graduate student and lead author of a paper out this week in Current Biology. Mahrt, who defends her doctoral dissertation next month, did the research with Christine Portfors, associate professor in biological sciences, and researchers from the University of Washington, University of Southern Denmark and University of Cambridge.
Incivility isn’t a cause of division in American society.
It’s a symptom.
“People become more uncivil because they get passionate about politics because politics matter to them,” said Cornell W. Clayton, director of the Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service and professor of political science at WSU. “We have deep divisions and people care passionately about this, and that’s what produces incivilities.
“Political incivility is everywhere.”
Clayton was keynote speaker Thursday during a day-long conference at North Idaho College. The event, titled “Returning Civility to America’s Democracy: The Promotion of Civil Dialogue,” examined the state of civility in American politics and the relationship between incivility and democracy.
Washington State University biologist Mechthild Tegeder has developed a way to dramatically increase the yield and quality of soybeans.
Her greenhouse-grown soybean plants fix twice as much nitrogen from the atmosphere as their natural counterparts, grow larger and produce up to 36 percent more seeds.
“The biggest implication of our research is that by ramping up the natural nitrogen allocation process we can increase the amount of food we produce without contributing to further agricultural pollution,” Tegeder said. “Eventually we would like to transfer what we have learned to other legumes and plants that humans grow for food.”