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December 13, 2022

Research

Two Cheers for the Tyrant in the Corner Office

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Bloomberg

A host of studies show that even in regular people power produces over-confidence, risk-taking, insensitivity, intolerance and a higher likelihood of treating other people as means rather than ends. The so-called “cookie monster study,” conducted by psychologists at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, shows that randomly assigned “powerful people” are more likely to help themselves to second cookies, eat with their mouths open and get crumbs on their faces.

Engineer vying for Miss America uses platform to show women can succeed in male-dominated fields

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Wisconsin Public Radio

A University of Wisconsin-Madison student from Wausau will be the first nuclear engineer to compete in the Miss America contest Dec. 15. Grace Stanke, who was crowned Miss Wisconsin in June, is using her platform to advocate for nuclear energy while showing women they can succeed in male-dominated industries.

Higher Education/System

Campus life

State news

Stop the blame game, listen to each other and seek out good information to help solve big problems

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

It was a very welcome thing to me that the Journal Sentinel along with the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wisconsin Public Radio brought the Main Street Agenda to “We the People” in Pewaukee.Many people I know (regardless of political affiliation, economic status, or cultural background) are fed up with the incessant blaring ads and speeches blaming whoever the “other” is in order to get us vote for them.The ads say very little of substance about what the core issues are, and even less about how they would go about resolving them, only who to blame − again, so you vote for the candidate running the ad. Nothing useful is gained by them.

Health

When to begin gender treatments and how far to go an individual decision

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Wisconsin State Journal

Of roughly 315 patients at UW Health’s pediatric and adolescent transgender health, or PATH clinic, about 40% are on puberty blockers, estrogen or testosterone. The others haven’t started the treatments or have decided they don’t want them, said Dr. Jennifer Rehm, co-medical director of the clinic.

Athletics

Business/Technology

The FCC has a new broadband map, and you can challenge the results

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Quoted: “I think it’s going to be a giant goat rodeo,” said Barry Orton, telecommunications professor emeritus from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Even with its flaws, most agree the new mapping system is much better than the one it replaced.

“I’d say it’s five to 10 times more accurate. The previous one was absolutely worthless,” Orton said.

UW Experts in the News

Why vegetable prices are so high in the US

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Popular Science

Additionally, University of Wisconsin, Madison agriculture and applied economics professor Paul Mitchell told USA Today, “crops are more resilient to dry weather than they were 20 years ago.” He added that as these extreme events devastating crops happen more and more frequently, the crops won’t be able to adapt quickly enough.

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