Matt Hrodey

Milwaukee

Staff Writer at Discover Magazine

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Articles

University closing means Taps for a beloved teacher’s band

6 days ago | gmtoday.com | Matt Hrodey

WAUKESHA — For the last time, about 40 different people filter into the vaulted practice space at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Waukesha’s Fine Arts Center. They’re carrying the bulging black containers that hold their saxophones, trombones, tubas and clarinets. Young and old, they make up the Windy Hill Symphonic Band, which will hold its last concert on Friday. This brassy, rollicking band composed of both students and community members is losing its home.
Waukesha Mayor Shawn Reilly looks back at the last year

1 week ago | gmtoday.com | Matt Hrodey

WAUKESHA — Waukesha Mayor Shawn Reilly, noted for his "no-nonsense," practical style, presented the State of the City during Tuesday’s Common Council meeting and detailed a year’s worth of the city’s cost-cutting, among other efforts. Following the city’s historic diversion of Lake Michigan water, which first reached customers in 2023, the city has focused on matters closer to home. "Just as families face rising costs, so does the city," Reilly said on the video presentation.
Paul Vrakas loves the clarinet and Waukesha, too

1 week ago | gmtoday.com | Matt Hrodey

WAUKESHA — Standing in his study at the Avalon Square senior living community in downtown Waukesha, Paul Vrakas, the city’s longest-serving mayor, is ready to do it all again. Asked whether he’d return to his old job as mayor at the age of 97, he says without hesitation, "You bet."He’s only half-joking. He runs down accomplishments from his two stints as mayor, from 1970 to 1978 and from 1986 to 1994. A recycling program. Public housing. Zoning that spurred development.
La Luna es incluso más antigua de lo que los científicos pensaban

Dec 7, 2023 | eos.org | Matt Hrodey

This is an authorized translation of an Eos article. Esta es una traducción al español autorizada de un artículo de Eos. Gracias a un de los relojes más lentos en el universo, los científicos han determinado que la Luna es aproximadamente 40 millones de años más antigua de lo que se pensaba previamente. Eso significa que la Tierra era un joven de 100 millones de años cuando un objeto del tamaño de Marte se estrelló contra él, arrojando magma en la órbita de la Tierra.
Hippos Once Lived in Europe, Where They Survived a Brutal Ice Age

Nov 30, 2023 | discovermagazine.com | Matt Hrodey

The fact that modern hippos, Hippopotamus amphibius , once lived in Europe is well-established science. What scientists still don't know is how they got there from Africa and their relationship to the long-extinct Hippopotamus antiquus , which may have roamed Europe at the same time. Scientists also debate when modern hippos first arrived, but the restoration and dating of an important hippo skull found in Rome, Italy, offers up a new answer. When Did Ancient Hippos Live?
Mysterious, Saturn-Like Stars Steal Their Rings From Nearby Stars

Nov 28, 2023 | discovermagazine.com | Matt Hrodey

By observing a complex dance of stars, astronomers have come up with a new explanation for why exotic Be stars - B-type stars that show emission lines - have their own Saturn-like rings. Conventional wisdom states Be stars are locked in orbit of another star, in a so-called binary system. Forces from the second star cause the Be star to rotate quickly and sling material out into a ring. But the new study questions this explanation.
Neglected Fossil Find From a Road Project Turns Out to Be a New Sea Creature

Nov 21, 2023 | discovermagazine.com | Matt Hrodey

Paleontologists analyzed a 170 million-year-old set of fossils collected from a road project in France and found them to belong to a new, massive underwater predator that stands (or swims) as the oldest-known creature of its kind. A group of local paleontology enthusiasts 40 years ago collected the fossils from a road cutting near Metz in Lorraine, France, and donated them to the Natural History Museum in Luxembourg for safe keeping.
Scientists Invented a Synthetic Inner Ear So People Won't Get Lost in Space

Nov 15, 2023 | discovermagazine.com | Matt Hrodey

The saccule and utricle, two chambers in the inner ear, detect the direction of gravity and help the body to balance. Without their influence, we quickly become lost and disoriented. It involves a series of small vibrating devices that are taped to the skin and vibrate to signal one's position in space, a kind of mechanical inner ear. Early research has shown that the devices help but must be paired with extensive training so that users follow their input automatically.
Massive, Dead Dinosaurs May Have Made Scavenging Irrestible

Nov 14, 2023 | discovermagazine.com | Matt Hrodey

Theropods - the family of dinosaurs that included the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex and the smaller Allosaurus - had the largest and most sophisticated brains of any such dinosaur group. But scientists aren't sure how they used these advanced faculties, whether for hunting or tracking down the next corpse to scavenge. A 2011 study found that if you set loose a group of scavenging T. rex's in an environment comparable to the Serengeti in Africa, they would struggle to survive.
Long Before the Arrival of Humans, a Strange Little Primate Populated the Western United States

Nov 13, 2023 | discovermagazine.com | Matt Hrodey

The first primates arrived in the Americas about 56 million years ago and prospered for a time, but it wasn't to be. They died out some 34 million years ago, after the Eocene-Oligocene extinction event, during which the planet became cooler and drier. Half of all mammal genera died around the globe.