Author: gbump

Snuggle House backers have gone to pains to emphasize that the physical and emotional intimacy they?re selling does not include sex ? and there?s research suggesting that this won?t be a barrier to business success, according to UW-Madison sociology professor John DeLamater, an expert on human sexuality.

As UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden noted, there?s lots of time left for Burke to stake out positions, and the ?no promises? pledge may be more a matter of ?semantics.?

Patricia McConnell, an expert on animal behavior, is not against hunting and even raises lamb for food. But the University of Wisconsin-Madison zoologist and author is appalled by what she regards as blatant cruelty to animals sanctioned and abetted by the state.

Although Kurt Squire, a professor of curriculum and instruction at UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, has done research with older students showing that pairing an iPad game about a concept with reading about that same concept improves understanding of the concept more than does pairing the reading with a diagram or picture about the concept.

?My opinion is the 350 number is the one people who simply don?t like wolves have seized upon,? said Timothy Van Deelen, a wildlife ecologist and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is not on the committee.

“I think if you take the long run perspective, this is mostly much ado about not very much,” says Tom Oliver, a UW-Madison professor of population health sciences, who specializes in health care program administration. “Practically everybody who is eligible and wants coverage will be able to get it.”