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Noted: The results could offer reassurance to postmenopausal women, says Carey Gleason, a geriatrics and women’s health specialist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who was not involved in the study.

Quoted: “A lot of people are there to think about their future in the party,” University of Wisconsin Madison political science professor Barry Burden said. “They don’t want to be attached to a sinking ship.”

Noted: One of the factors contributing to the heat wave is drier than normal conditions, said Michael Morgan, a professor in the department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Drier conditions mean drier soil. When soil is wet, the radiation from the sun helps evaporate that water before it begins heating the ground.

Noted: Kathleen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has no doubt the two paragraphs in question would qualify as plagiarism, whether in a newsroom, classroom or at a political podium.

Quoted: Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Elections Research Center, said Trump is the kind of candidate who uses television and social media very effectively. But the platform doesn’t fall into either of those categories, he said. It will not be read on television, and few will be tweeting about it.

Noted: Indeed, attraction, hugging, flirting, fondling and, yes, sexual relations know no expiration dates. “This is a time of life where many people return to a certain romance of what they were like in their 20s. You can no longer jump out of planes, but you can still generate excitement in your life,” says geriatric psychiatrist Ken Robbins, a clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Social connections and human touch help ward off the depression and loneliness that old age and institutional living can bring, he adds.

Noted: The convention “has been a way for the party to unify itself and present the image it wants to the American public,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Elections Research Center.

Quoted: Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied third parties, said Johnson and Stein might hurt each other. He pointed to research showing that Nader had “two kinds of supporters: one was die-hard leftists on board with his platform, and the other set weren’t particularly ideological but were dissatisfied with Bush and Gore.” The larger the second set, the more Johnson and Stein will compete for voters.

Quoted: “The need for bail most often comes up when the protesters are arrested when they didn’t necessarily expect to be arrested or hadn’t really planned for it,” said Pamela Oliver, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: An ICEE is a little bit like an avalanche. “If you are in an avalanche, it’s sort of like you’re swimming around in snow,” explains Scott Rankin, a food scientist at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “As soon as the avalanche stops, it becomes very rigid, very cement-like.”

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Dr. John B. Diamond, the Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Education at University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, and co-author of “Despite The Best Intentions,”

Quoted: “This shows a relationship between inadequate hydration and increasing BMI,” said Wendy Hahn, a nutritionist at University of Wisconsin Health who was not involved in the study. “While we can’t draw a causal relationship, there is definitely something going on there.”

Support is growing for a theory that sleep evolved so that  connections in the brain can be pruned down during slumber, making room for fresh memories to form the next day. “Sleep is the price we pay for learning,” says Giulio Tononi of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who developed the idea.

Quoted: “If conservation is going to work in India, it is going to work where people live,“ says Paul Robbins, a conservation and wildlife conflict expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (and a former colleague of Karanth).

Quoted: “He has actually proposed three — total, three — bills that have become law in his entire career dating back to 1999,” said David T. Canon, chairman of the political science department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. One named a post office in Wisconsin, a second changed taxes on arrows used by deer hunters, and the third, this year, established a $3 million presidential commission on “evidence-based policy making.”