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Mediterranean diet, DASH are best diets for 2019

Today.com

Quoted: “I am not surprised that the DASH and Mediterranean diets have been No. 1 and No. 2 for several years. They are more lifestyle diets than fad type of diets,” Samantha Gollup, a registered dietitian at the University of Wisconsin Health, told TODAY. She was not involved in the list. “You are limiting processed foods and you are increasing the amount of vegetables.”

He Hawks Young Blood As A New Miracle Treatment. All That’s Missing Is Proof.

Huffington Post

Quoted: Rather, it noted in its informed consent form that there are “no known improvements” directly related to young plasma infusions. In fact, the form contained “an appalling lack of detailed explanation of what the actual effects of this intervention are supposed to be,” said Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who reviewed Ambrosia’s form at HuffPost’s request.

How Zine Libraries Are Highlighting Marginalized Voices

Buzzfeed News

Over the past two decades, historians and librarians have been archiving zines in the desire to expand our understanding of the medium, in spaces like the Main Zine Collection in Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Library, San Francisco Public Library’s Little Maga/Zine Collection, the Library Workers Zine Collection at the iSchool Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and many more.

China’s Population Is ‘Degenerating Into a Small Group of the Old and the Weak,’ Experts Say

Newsweek

.Yi Fuxian, a researcher from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Su Jian, an economist at Peking University, co-authored a paper suggesting that China has entered a long-term downward population spiral. The experts warned that the past year will be “remembered as a historical turning point for [the] Chinese population,” arguing that China is “degenerating into a small group of the old and the weak thanks to wrong demographic policies,” the South China Morning Post reported Wednesday.

You Got Them Exactly the Wrong Thing, Didn’t You?

Wall Street Journal

“There is something intimate about sharing—think of sharing a meal or a bed or watching a movie together,” says Evan Polman, assistant professor of marketing at Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lead author on the study. “The same thing happens when people share a material item. It brings the giver and receiver together and gives them something to talk about.”

50-million-year cooling trend is reversed

Eco-Business

“We can use the past as a yardstick to understand the future, which is so different from anything we have experienced in our lifetime,” said John Williams, a palaeo-ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US.

What can Tony Evers really do?

Capital Times

Quoted: Dennis Dresang, UW-Madison emeritus political science professor, Tom Oliver, a population health sciences professor at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, and UW-Madison transportation expert Eric Sundquist, director of the State Smart Transportation Initiative.

UW played key role in Apollo mission — Michael R. Anderson

Wisconsin State Journal

Letter to the editor: Two UW professors were key investigators who carried out research for NASA. Geology professor Eugene N. Cameron studied the mineral composition of the rocks to evaluate the conditions and processes of rock formation on the moon. Chemistry professor Larry A. Haskin was interested in the trace elements found in the rocks.

Percy, Donald E.

Wisconsin State Journal

He moved to Madison in 1962, and served sequentially as a UW-Madison research administrator, Assistant Dean in the College of Letters and Science with concurrent duties in the Chancellor’s Office, Assistant, then Associate Vice President and Executive Vice President in the pre-merger central administration, Senior Vice President for Administration in the merged UW system. He also taught graduate courses in the Schools of Business, Education, and Medicine on the Madison campus.

In the hunt for aliens, scientists look again to the clouds of Venus

Wired.Co.Uk

As for the search for life in the clouds of Venus, a paper published this autumn in the journal Astrobiology by a team led by Sanjay Limaye at the University of Wisconsin-Madison presents an argument for how and why it ought to be pursued further — now more than ever. And it hinges on data we’ve been able to uncover here on Earth.

Implantable Device Aids Weight Loss

Lab Manager Magazine

New battery-free, easily implantable weight-loss devices developed by engineers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison could offer a promising new weapon for battling the bulge

Hawkinson, Lorraine Amanda

Wisconsin State Journal

Lorraine worked at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Library Catalog Department, progressing from a clerk to a cataloguer through the departments, before retiring as a library technician in September, 1988.

Henderson, Beverly Joan

Wisconsin State Journal

She taught for several years, worked at Eau Clair County Extension Office, and at UW Madison in the Department of Consumer Science.

The warmth of a Danish Christmas meal

The Washington Post

My oldest daughter, Mara — who lived in Denmark during her junior year at the University of Wisconsin and for some time after she graduated — always brings the sweet-sour red cabbage (another recipe from the Dale Brown book) in sufficient quantity that there is plenty for everyone to take home.

Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials

AP

We have seen Foxconn make plans for “innovation centers” here in Racine, in Madison, Green Bay, Milwaukee and Eau Claire to support its high tech plant plans; we have seen it partner with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and with local universities and colleges to enhance training and skill development for workers and system processes; we have seen Foxconn pledge to mitigate environmental impacts by developing a zero liquid discharge wastewater treatment system that will more than halve its water needs at the Mount Pleasant campus — a state of the art system that was not required in its contract with Wisconsin.