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July 9, 2019

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Fish die-offs in Wisconsin expected to double by 2050, quadruple by 2100, report says

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Noted: Imagine sauntering up to your favorite Wisconsin lake and recoiling from the stench of rotting fish and the sight of pale carcasses littering the shoreline.

Those days are coming, according to two researchers who worked together at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In a report released Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, Samuel Fey and Andrew Rypel predict fish die-offs in Wisconsin lakes will double by 2050 and quadruple by 2100.

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Arts & Humanities

Believing in Fairies: Marie Kondo and Our Oriental Attachments

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Japan’s “floating world” has long provided the West with fantasies of both attachment and detachment, with the promise of refashioning our lives by “decluttering” and surrounding ourselves with only the most exquisite objects. Marie Kondo offers us a dream of minimalist Japanese beauty not unlike the dream of Japan that first enchanted the West in the Victorian period.

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UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at University of Wisconsin-Madison, “As we have financial distress on farms, it ripples through these rural communities.”