Category: Experts Guide

“If you need to sell back to the grid and you’re getting paid less for the electricity you provide, then that’s going to lead to less solar, for sure,” said Gregory Nemet, professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

P.J. Liesch, manager of the UW-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab, tells us about the creepiest crawlers from the insect world, just in time for Halloween.

But in light of Protasiewicz’s victory, Barry Burden, a professor of political science at UW-Madison, noted that “the two parties are looking at the Constitution and litigation differently than they used to.”

He added that voter ID would be a logical place for conservatives to start, if they were serious about pursuing a strategy of embracing constitutional amendments.

“Mayor Johnson is doing some really interesting things, trying to bring in business and economic activity into the city,” said Alvin Thomas, an assistant professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “That is going to be necessary to afford people the opportunities to take care of themselves.

“At the core are things like mental health, access to jobs – jobs that will allow an individual to respectively be able to care for their children and family and community.”

“If you had asked (about environmental changes) 20 years ago, it would (have been) really different,” said Dominique Brossard, chair of the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who reviewed a summary of the study’s findings.

“I think it’s promising that people are realizing there are environmental issues impacting their region as a whole,” she added.

“It is a little more complicated than people assume,” political scientist Barry Burden of the University of Wisconsin-Madison says of the possibility of a spoiler candidate altering a presidential race.

Interview with Lindsay Palmer, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UW-Madison

Eric Grodsky, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor whose research has included publications on chronic absenteeism before the pandemic, suggested in an interview that focusing on those underlying causes is the best way to help students academically, as well. That’s because whatever is causing them to miss school can harm their ability to learn even if they’re present, he said.

Party leaders might be more extreme now as a result of the close party balance in the House,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The narrow margins for the majority party in recent years empower more strident and extreme factions within the party to demand fidelity to their preferences. It is possible that Pelosi’s more liberal position helped her maintain exceptional party discipline even while sometimes managing tenuous majorities.”

It could also be that, also over an immense period, glass will eventually crystallize and become a typical solid. In this light, glass is just liquid “that’s sliding on its way to being a crystal,” Mark Ediger, a chemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison, says.

But there’s another exciting possibility here: that instead of crystallization, over very long periods, glass can inch closer to the state of “perfect disorder,” as Ediger describes.

“Let’s suppose that you have boxes,” he says, “many different boxes of different sizes and shapes, and you’re trying to pack them all into the back of a U-Haul.” If you manage to squeeze all the boxes in the back of the U-Haul, with no possible room for any others, and there’s only one possible configuration of the boxes that will allow you to do this, that’s perfect disorder.

“Israel’s apartheid system and colonization and military occupation over Palestinians, with full support of the U.S. government, are the source of all of this violence,” said Lorraine Halinka Malcoe of Jewish Voice for Peace. She is also a public health professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Barry Burden, a political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pointed to a 2020 incident in which human error led to incorrect initial results in Antrim County, Mich., and stoked conspiracies about election fraud.