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July 15, 2022

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Power up: Little Free Libraries add solar charging to boxes

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The Capital Times

“I must say that it is an exploratory project,” said UW-Madison graduate student Maitreyee Sanjiv Marathe. “I will not claim by any means that this is the solution for energy access for people experiencing homelessness or underserved communities, but it is definitely one of the pieces of the puzzle.”

The idea was generated in a UW-Madison competition called the Solympics in summer 2021. The task was to create kiosk prototypes for the Great Lakes Community Conservation Corps, an organization out of Racine that serves young adults and military veterans.

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Trump wants Wisconsin ballot drop box ruling to apply to past elections. It doesn’t work that way

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Quoted: Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Trump’s continual fixation on delegitimatizing the outcome of the 2020 election overlooks the fact that Republicans did well down ballot that year.

“Many supporters of Donald Trump remain incredulous that he could have lost Wisconsin. They view Biden as a weak candidate and point to big crowds at Trump’s rallies and his online followings as evidence that he should have won,” Burden said. “Assuming there was election fraud is a way to keep those beliefs in tact.”

5 Types Of Epiphytes That Make Great Houseplants

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House Digest

The Horticulture Division at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says bright indirect light and consistently warm temperatures are the keys to keeping your Schlumbergera thriving. As is the best water drainage possible, considering that left to their own devices in nature, these epiphytes will literally hang from a cliff where moisture retention is an unheard of environmental possibility. A well-cared-for, happy holiday cactus can be part of your family’s history for a century. It will thank you for the attention it receives by offering more and more flowers with each passing season.

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UW-Madison prof’s ‘Mourning Light’ shines a light on memory and loss

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The Capital Times

Richard Goodkin’s novel “Mourning Light” is a book 30 years in the making.

Or 84 years, if you consider its connections to Daphne du Maurier’s classic 1938 Gothic novel “Rebecca,” a book that haunts “Mourning Light” like the memory of a lost loved one.

Goodkin, a French professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has also published another novel in French, began working on the first draft of “Mourning Light” in 1993. It was two years after his partner had died in the midst of the AIDS epidemic, and the novel is also about a UW professor coming to grips with his grief.