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Quoted; Mike Wagner, a professor of journalism and political science at the UW-Madison, said Schultz’s retirement will likely impact, at least somewhat, the atmosphere of the state senate.

Quoted: “A good satirist is someone who hits a point, cares about something, and wants you to care about it,” Jonathan Gray, professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, told the HPR. A good satirist “makes a statement” about his or her subject, and does not simply mock for comedy’s sake.

Quoted: “For these hospitals to make decisions because they’re scared, that’s a problem,” said Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But if it’s because it’s futile, that’s understandable.”

Quoted: This finding is particularly important because of what is known about children’s long-term development if they have difficulties with self-regulation early on, said Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, a professor of human development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: From the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Dr. David Plante, an expert in sleep disorders, said the time changes in the spring and fall could disrupt sleep controls, causing something akin to jet lag. People with sleep disorders can suffer even more.

Quoted: A big lesson from a Walker loss would be that austerity approach to budgets at the state level do not work and are unpopular with voters, said David Canon, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin.

Warren County Community College in Washington, will host the sociologist Alice Goffman, nationally recognized author of “On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City,” on Thursday, Nov. 13, for a reading and master class. Both events are free and open to the public.

Quoted: While credit-card balances among young people have actually fallen some over the past decade, a new study by Fenaba Addo at the University of Wisconsin—Madison in the journal Demography finds that “credit card debt is positively associated with cohabitation for men and women.” In other words, debt pushes people into living with partners, not just parents.

Quoted: “It’s something almost all Americans are paying attention to,” said Tom Oliver, professor of medicine at public health at the University of Wisconsin. “The ability to grab an audience is irresistible.”

Quoted: “If I was a regulator, I would want to take a look at that,” said Peter Carstensen, who teaches antitrust at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin Law School, joins Here & Now’s Robin Young to discuss the ethics and impact of quarantining people who may have had contact with Ebola patients.

Quoted: “When we talk to smokers in Massachusetts and across the nation, 80 percent say they want to quit, and 50 percent try every year,” said Dr. Michael Fiore, professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin and director of the school’s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention.

Quoted: “Every time we come to these cities, we try to see what might be unique in that region from an urban-wildlife standpoint,” said tour leader David Drake, a University of Wisconsin professor and wildlife specialist. “It’s a way for us to take new ideas back home.”

Quoted: The current finely balanced state of the race is, in part, “a reflection of the degree of polarization that you see in the state,” said Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Archaeological finds show that Neanderthals and modern humans overlapped in the Middle East as long as 100,000 years ago, says paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin in Madison. But the new DNA findings seem to rule out mating taking place until much later.

News of Apple and Facebook paying for their employees? egg freezing has sparked conversation on the advancement of family planning. Gwen Ifill speaks with Sarah Elizabeth Richards, author of ?Motherhood Rescheduled? and Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the benefits, risks and choices women face.

Quoted: ?It?s irreplaceable evidence of what once existed that we can?t reconstruct from what people are now,? said John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the study. ?It speaks to us with information about a time that?s lost to us.?