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Quoted: “These folks are past the point of being long shots. There has to be some motivation that is out of touch with reality, or just doesn?t care,” said UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.

Quoted: “The Betsy Ross story is definitely a myth,” said Jean Lee, a professor of history at UW-Madison and a specialist on the American Revolution.

Q: Which president has had the most impact on the most Americans? lives right now? A: Deciding which president has had the greatest influence on our current lives is subjective and a different calculation for anyone, says Kenneth R. Mayer, professor of political science at UW-Madison and an expert on the U.S. presidency. One could even make a case that any of our nation?s 44 presidents, with a few exceptions made for those who are regarded as failures, is the most influential.

Noted: For one thing, skin, scales and fur aren?t the blank canvases upon which Turing envisioned color patterns painting themselves. ?Sometimes biology is a bit uncooperative because it uses more components than models tell us are necessary,? says Sean B. Carroll, a developmental and evolutionary biologist at the University of Wisconsin?Madison.

Quoted: “This is not the distant past,” said John Hawks, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin. “This is stuff that?s happened in 40 human generations.”

Quoted: “Almost nobody knows anything about Johnson but yet he?s still only two to four points behind Feingold, and I think what that shows is just how energized Republicans are,” said Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin at Madison political science professor and co-founder of Pollster.com.

Quoted: “Cooling has been used [for headaches] since the 19th century,” says Dr. Roland Brilla, a clinical assistant professor of neurology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison and a member of the American Headache Society. Though many patients say cold helps a bit, he cautions that “it doesn?t seem to be extremely effective.”

Interviewed: Michele Norris speaks with former war correspondent Stephen Ward, now director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about the controversy surrounding the profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal published in Rolling Stone magazine. The article, which led to McChrystal?s ouster as the top commander in Afghanistan, sparked debate among journalists about on- and off-the-record exchanges.

Noted: The red shirts are seen as poorly educated provincials, who do not speak standard Thai but a dialect halfway between Thai and Laotian. They are caricatured as ?savages?, ?barbarians? or ?buffalos? who should be sent back to the countryside. Thongchai Winichakul, a Thai history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said well-to-do Bangkokians see the red shirts as ?dirty, ugly, vulgar, low, inferior people? ? country bumpkins.

Quoted: “One would expect the placement rate (in Michigan) to be higher than 53 percent,” said Carolyn Heinrich, director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the study?s authors.

Quoted: “When you look at the statewide comparisons, that?s really the biggest discrepancy of any state,” said Dr. David Allen, head of pediatric endocrinology at University of Wisconsin Health.

No one would believe I?d found a 3-inch mosquito, because there aren?t any. But Prof. Phil Pellitteri at the University of Wisconsin?s Insect Diagnostic Lab said Wisconsin is home to the “crane fly,” from the family Tipulidae, which is related to mosquitoes.