Author: gbump

Quoted: “The public doesn’t fully see this as a human health crisis. Maybe polar bears were our early indicator — the proverbial canary in the coal mine. But when you talk about this crisis, the bear images should be replaced with pictures of children,” said Dr. Jonathan Patz, a professor and director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who was not involved with the new report.

Quoted: Mark Stephenson, the director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he was not completely surprised by the announcement, only the timing.

Quoted: Theresa Waage is a security supervisor with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department who’s trained in Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, or CPTED.  The certification helps her look at a building like a criminal would, allowing her to identify possible points of access and recommend ways to prevent a break-in.

Quoted: If you’re not entirely convinced by religious beliefs right off the bat, that’s alright; stay open to the possibility that it’ll come with time, and know that you can still benefit by participating now. Sociologist Robert Putnam, of “Bowling Alone” fame, and Chaeyoon Lim, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, found that “religious people are more satisfied with their lives than nonbelievers,” because of the “social networks they build by attending religious services.”

Quoted: Steven Deller is an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He says US employment figures are somewhat deceptive.

In his new book, “The Feeling of Life Itself,” Koch advocates for integrated information theory, or IIT, developed by Giulio Tononi, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. IIT doesn’t ask how matter gives rise to consciousness — rather, it takes as a given certain attributes of consciousness, and asks what kinds of physical systems would be needed to support them.