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Quoted: Timothy Corden, medical director of the pediatric critical care unit at the University of Wisconsin Children’s Hospital.

“There is not a shred of evidence that these products make babies ‘smarter,’ whatever that means,” said Seth Pollack, director of the child emotion research lab at UW- Madison. “At very best, babies may find them interesting . . . but there are lots of physical and social things in the world that babies are also captivated by.”

Quoted: Calvin DeWitt, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin who is a leading evangelical supporter of environmental causes.

Quoted: Menzie D. Chinn, professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin’s LaFollette School.

Quoted: Jonathan Makielski from the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

The warmer-than-usual temperatures in Wisconsin this month are of historic proportions.

Record keepers say it’s the warmest start to a year since 1880.

U-W Madison research meteorologist Scott Bachmeier says it’s pretty amazing given the magnitude of how much warmer it is compared to normal.

Quoted: Barry B. Powell, a scholar of Greek literature at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Professor Wang Jianwei, an expert on cross-strait issues at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: R. Alto Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Alfred McCoy, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin and author of The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade.

Quoted: Susan Nitzke, professor of nutritional sciences at UW-Madison.

Researchers have found the remains of African slaves in a 16th-century Mexican graveyard, confirming historical accounts that slavery began in the New World not long after Europeans conquered Mexico, according to a new study. The graves were discovered near the ruins of a colonial church in Campeche, Mexico, a port city on the Yucatan Peninsula. The authors of the study being released today say the remains are the earliest physical evidence of slavery in North America.

University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropology professor T. Douglas Price, who helped conduct the study, said the remains confirm historical descriptions of the beginning of slavery in the New World. ââ?¬Å?It underscores very vividly that in the Spanish world, slaves were being brought into the colonies right from the very start,ââ?¬Â said Matthew Restall, a professor of colonial Latin American history at Penn State University.

Quoted: Hannah Carey and her colleagues at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine have examined how long a liver from a rat can survive outside the body, compared with a liver harvested from a hibernating ground squirrel.

Quoted: Michael Corradini, chair of nuclear engineering at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Kenneth Mayer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Rick Nordheim, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Katherine Cramer Walsh.

Quoted: Robert Enright is a professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of “Forgiveness is a Choice.”