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Quoted: Pinterest has some important user stats. Women make up about 70 percent of its users. And, one-third of its users are in $100,000+ households, which is also important, says Don Stanley, who teaches digital marketing at the University of Wisconsin and is founder of 3Rhino Media.

Quoted: Greg Landry, the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department’s lead physician, said Borland’s decision may give pause to other young football players.

Quoted: One of the downsides of the mostly-awesome phenomenon of human consciousness is the ability to worry about the future. We know the future exists, but we don’t know what’s going to happen in it. “In other animals, unpredictability or uncertainty can lead to heightened vigilance, but I think what’s unique about humans is the ability to reflect on the fact that these future events are unknown or unpredictable,” says Dan Grupe, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Investigating Healthy Minds. “Uncertainty itself can lead to a lot of distress for humans in particular.”

Quoted: “One of the Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan’s goals is to reduce the risk of people in our state getting cancer,” said LoConte, an oncologist. “By increasing the use of the HPV vaccine statewide, we are closing the door to cancer for our children’s generation.”

Quoted: Nadav Shelef is a professor of Israel studies and political science at the University of Wisconsin.Unlike in American politics, where candidates of similar ideology often settle their scores before election day, Shelef says the game of drawing distinctions never really ends in Israel.

Quoted: “It just changes expectations for who’s responsible for making elections work,” said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and director of the Elections Research Center. “In every other state it’s the responsibility for the voters to make sure it happens.”

Noted: But “cisgender” and “cis,” used for people whose gender identity aligns with their birth sex, didn’t begin catching on until around 2008, according to Anne Enke, a professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Before that time, she recalls, her undergraduates considered “cisgender” to have “too much of a subcultural ‘insider’ feel,” but then she noticed that an increasing number of students savvy about gender issues “began to casually toss ‘cis’ ” into classroom discussion. (Subscription required.)

Quoted: “In a crystal, everything is periodically arranged. If you know what’s happening in one little bit, you can predict where the atoms are going to be everywhere else. In glass, things are much more disordered,” explained Mark Ediger, an experimental chemist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not involved in the study.

If science-as-political-football prompts people give up on the idea that a consensus emerging from a growing body of scientific evidence “is the best available evidence for decisionmaking … we’re basically undermining the very value of the scientific enterprise,” says Dietram Scheufele, who studies science policy and science communication at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Noted: Computer algorithms shouldn’t displace children’s real conversations with real friends, pediatrician Dipesh Navsaria, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, said in the statement.

Quoted: But if annatto is flavorless, what accounts for the difference? According to Dean Sommer, cheese and food technologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, some manufacturers actually make their orange and white cheddars differently, altering the moisture, fat content, and aging times to reflect regional palates.

Quoted: The results underscored the extent to which chief audit executives “encountered some form of political pressure, almost on a daily basis, said Larry Rittenberg, one of the authors of the report and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: At the University of Wisconsin School of Business, Professor Charlie Trevor says in the future some companies could lose many good workers unless they make changes.