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December 19, 2019

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Committee Approves Pay Raises For State, UW Workers

Wisconsin Public Radio

A bipartisan legislative committee unanimously approved pay raises Wednesday for state and University of Wisconsin employees, but Republicans shot down Gov. Tony Evers’ request to raise the minimum wage for state workers to $15 an hour.

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The workout drug

Knowable Magazine

Researchers are still working out what matters in this complex arena. Exercises that involve more muscle groups generate more IL-6, so full-body exercises like running have a greater anti-inflammatory effect than exercises that target just a few muscle groups, says Pedersen. And the benefits go away within a couple of days, suggesting that exercising frequently is important. “If it’s been 48 hours since you exercised, it’s time to do it again,” says Jill Barnes, an exercise physiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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UW Experts in the News

First human ancestors to leave Africa died out in Java, scientists say

The Guardian

Quoted:But John Hawks, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, raised doubts about the identity of the fossils. “The question I’m asking is why should we think that these fossils are Homo erectus?” he said. “It’s hard for me to see a population of fossils from Java 120,000 years ago and not assume they were probably Denisovan.”

Can Diesel Finally Come Clean?

Scientific American

Quoted: “Sandia’s DFI technology is on the cutting edge of new ideas,” says leading diesel expert Rolf Reitz, former director of the Engine Research Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “It represents an alternative to natural mixing phenomena in diesel combustion.”

Let’s Talk About America’s Affordable Housing Crisis

WORT FM

Guests include Paige Glotzer, a professor in the department of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has written extensively about housing segregation in the U.S., the history of housing policy, and urban and suburban development. She is the author of How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890–1960, which will be published in April 2020.

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