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The workout drug

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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.

Can Diesel Finally Come Clean?

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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.”

Autism prevalence estimates for Catalonia, Iran highlight gaps in data

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Spectrum News 1

“A weakness of the [Catalonia] study is lack of information on co-occurring conditions such as intellectual disability, and information about sociodemographic variables,” says Maureen Durkin, professor of population health sciences and pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who was not involved in either study

Rightwing group pushes Wisconsin voter purge that ‘could tip’ 2020 election

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The Guardian

Quoted: “It’s over 200,000 voters who are affected. If even a small slice of them were deterred from voting in 2020, it could tip the outcome,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of its Elections Research Center. He added the people affected would be young people and those who live in cities – groups that tend to vote Democratic.

Scientists seeking cause of huge freshwater mussel die-off

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Wisconsin State Journal

Noted: University of Wisconsin epidemiologist Tony Goldberg is helping with the investigation. He specializes in wildlife diseases of unknown cause — and recently he’s been busy. “Along with invasive species, we’re seeing invasive pathogens,” Goldberg said. “Often it’s the coup de grace for a species that is holding on by a thread.”

The Voter Theft That Wasn’t

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Wall Street Journal

Enforcing the state law will merely help ensure that a liberal University of Wisconsin student doesn’t vote in both Madison and Milwaukee—or a Trump supporter in Wisconsin and Iowa.

The Best Comics of 2019

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The New York Times

Does the comics legend Lynda Barry’s MAKING COMICS (Drawn & Quarterly, 200 pp., $22.95) belong on a list full of more traditional narratives? The newly minted MacArthur genius teaches “interdisciplinary creativity” at the University of Wisconsin, and this slim volume — mimicking the feel of the composition notebooks that she requires her students to keep — initially appears to be a glorified lesson plan.

Scientists Seeking Cause of Huge Freshwater Mussel Die-Off

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Associated Press

Quoted: University of Wisconsin epidemiologist Tony Goldberg is helping with the investigation. He specializes in wildlife diseases of unknown cause — and recently he’s been busy.“ Along with invasive species, we’re seeing invasive pathogens,” Goldberg said. “Often it’s the coup de grace for a species that is holding on by a thread.”

Words Of Wisdom For UW-Madison’s Class Of 2019

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Wisconsin Public Radio

University of Wisconsin-Madison’s winter commencement is this weekend. We talk with the keynote speaker, Wall Street Journal sports columnist and UW alum Jason Gay, about his advice for this year’s class – including why he says it’s “essential to avoid (University of Michigan) Wolverines.”

Thousands of Thanathorn backers rally against Thai establishment

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Al Jazeera

Quoted: “The establishment has gone after Thanathorn with such force because FFP has catalysed a change in how citizens imagine the Thai polity and their role in it,” said Tyrell Haberkorn, associate professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an expert on state violence and dissident politics in Thailand.

Grocery-carrying robots are coming

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Associated Press

So far, the best habitat to find Starship’s six-wheelers are confined spaces such as college campuses; the University of Houston and the University of Wisconsin-Madison rolled them out this fall.

2019 Is The Wettest Year Ever Recorded For Wisconsin And The Midwest

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Wisconsin Public Radio

Wisconsin received 41.75 inches of precipitation through last month. The amount of rain and snow so far this year beat out the previous record of 40.09 inches set back in 1938, according to Steve Vavrus, senior scientist with the Nelson Institut’s Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Mysterious Denisovans emerged from the shadows in 2019

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Science News

Quoted: Discoveries reported in 2019 brought Denisovans into focus — but left plenty of room for interpretation. As fossils accumulate, investigators will grasp how Denisovan anatomy influenced the skeletal makeup of its mating partners in the Homo genus. Thanks to Denisovan discoveries, “we can now see that hybridization contributed to our own origins,” says paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Business school can do more on climate — Mark Starik

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Wisconsin State Journal

Letter to the editor: As a UW-Madison double alumnus, I was pleased to join a couple of hundred UW climate activists rallying to urge the university and its stakeholders to better address our local and global climate crises with significant and immediate action to lower carbon emissions.

Blumer, Diane K.

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Wisconsin State Journal

Diane had worked at WPS and then later the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents and the UW Department of Psychology.

Student speaker spins songs from Hamilton at UW-Madison’s 2019 winter commencement

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Wisconsin State Journal

Raise a glass to freedom. Raise a glass to all of us. Telling the story of today. Those slightly modified lyrics to “The Story of Tonight” from the musical “Hamilton” kicked off Lisa Kamal’s speech to her fellow graduates and a crowd of more than 7,000 people Sunday at the Kohl Center for UW-Madison’s 2019 winter commencement ceremony.

Graduates fill Kohl Center for winter Commencement

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WKOW-TV 27

Student speaker Lisa Kamal shared her story, of how she get a full-ride scholarship from the Malaysian government.”I think in college, truthfully there’s going to be a lot of times where you get bummed down, things get really hard. You just have to keep going. Take it one day at a time, and you’ll get to the end,” Kamal said.

Jason Joyce: UW volleyball is killing it

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The Capital Times

Coming off decisive victories over Illinois State and UCLA in the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament last weekend, Wisconsin, the fourth seed, faces 13th seeded Texas A&M at 1 p.m. Friday. The winner of that match will face, on Saturday, the winner of the 3:30 p.m. Nebraska/Hawai’i tilt for a trip to the Final Four next week in Pittsburgh.