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September 20, 2019

Research

Scientists invented an electric baseball hat to reverse male baldness

TNW

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, and Shenzhen University actually developed the electrical stimulation device not the hat. What’s amazing about it is that it’s small enough to fit inside a regular baseball hat, doesn’t use batteries, and actually works.

Higher Education/System

Campus life

Madison’s mysterious tales and oddities

Madison Magazine

A sculpture without an origin, hauntings in a popular brewpub, a deadly corner, unidentified flying objects, a town that no longer exists and a team of paranormal investigators; Madison is a city laced with mystery and intrigue. Whether it can be seen, understood or believed is up to you. Try not to get spooked by some of the stories you read.

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UW-Madison Related

What Willie Nelson’s Farm Aid Will Encounter in Wisconsin

Billboard

Lloyd describes how her own father left their family farm at age 18 — “he already could see the difficulty in trying to make a living that way” — and she traveled widely in pursuit of an education tied to farming: a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from Brown University, a masters in rural development from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, work on sustainable forest management issues in Russia, Sweden and Finland in the 1990s and then a doctorate in rural sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.