Quoted: “I think it’s a symptom of the legislative process becoming less participatory,” said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Elections Research Center.
Jean-BaptisteLamarck (1744-1829) formulated the first real theory of biological evolution, in which organisms acquired traits directly from adapting to the environments they faced and passed those new traits on to their offspring. If there’s one thing high-school biology students learn, it’s that Darwin was right about natural selection. If there’s a second thing, it’s that Lamarck was wrong.
—Mr. Hawks is a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Featured: NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with Thulani Davis about Aretha Franklin, the “Queen of Soul,” who died Thursday at 76. Davis says Franklin let the style of singing African-Americans knew from church blend into popular music.
Quoted: “There’s no way to overstate what Aretha meant to the generation that came of age during the Civil Rights Movement,” Craig Werner, professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison told NBC News.
Quoted: “There is evidence to suggest that vinegars can inhibit enzymes that break down food and change up how we digest carbohydrates,” Cassie Vanderwall, a nutritionist at University of Wisconsin Health, told TODAY. “(But) I don’t think the evidence is strong enough to recommend it (for weight loss.)”
Quoted: But Monica Turner, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said this argument doesn’t address the bigger problem.“Making minor changes in the fuels [which] you then have to do repeatedly for many years is not going to solve the bigger problem of having to face climate change,” she told The Washington Post. “We cannot clear or thin our way out of this problem.”
Quoted: “What we expect is more heat waves like this, and we expect that as the climate changes and heat waves become more common, species will experience heat stress, migrate away from periods of heat, or in the case of trees start dying,” said Jack Williams, a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin. “There’s a saying that species have opportunities of moving, adapting, persisting or dying out.”
Noted: A small number of people naturally have lucid dreams, meaning they can recognise when they’re dreaming and steer the storyline they experience. Some others can learn to induce them using cognitive techniques.The practice is most commonly used to pursue fantasies like flying, but it may also help to overcome fears and nightmares, says Benjamin Baird at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: However, David Canon, professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, said not too much could be read into Tuesday’s turnout given several hot contests in the state.
The concept of nuisance can be traced to common law developed hundreds of years ago in England, said Brian Ohm, chairman of the urban and regional planning department at UW-Madison. While recognized in other states, Ohm said anticipatory nuisance is rarely used because it requires a higher burden of proof.
Evers came into Tuesday as the favorite to win the nomination based on having more name recognition, winning three times in nonpartisan spring elections and leading in several public polls, said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
“It may be the case that some of that equipment simply can’t be fixed anymore,” said Mark Stephenson of UW-Madison’s Center for Dairy Profitability in a Wisconsin Public Radio story. “Any one or two years, you can get by not replacing it. But four years? Some equipment is going to have to be replaced.”
In this month’s episode of Field Notes, Susan Knight of UW-Madison’s Trout Lake Station talks about that annoying summer problem, “Swimmer’s Itch” and how we can avoid it.
Noted: But by 1953, the great Joshua Lederberg, then at the University of Wisconsin, had shown that this sort of transformation, relabeled “infective heredity,” is a routine and important process in bacteria. Still more unexpectedly, as later work would reveal, H.G.T. is not unique to bacteria.
Quoted: “On balance, the overall impact of social media on political knowledge appears to be negative,” write University of Wisconsin–Madison scholars Sangwon Lee and Michael Xenos. “Political social media use does not have a significant effect on political knowledge, while general social media use has a modestly negative effect.”
Quoted: “This organism has developed some tricks to evade immune responses,” said Christopher W. Olsen, a professor emeritus of public health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.
Single-occupancy cells are reserved for inmates with disciplinary or mental health problems, or who lack the social skills to room with another inmate, said Kenneth Streit, emeritus clinical professor at the UW-Madison Law School and a supervising attorney in the clinical programs at Taycheedah in the 1990s.
Noted: “There is clearly no coronation going on — it’s a bit more of a free-for-all,” Barry Burden, director of the University of Wisconsin’s Elections Research Center, said. “That reflects Democrat frustration. They have not been able to work in advance.”
Column by Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health who also holds master’s degrees in public health and children’s librarianship
“Statewide rollout opens up a whole new realm of questions for looking at different kinds of species in areas from agricultural regions, to forests, to areas with more of a human footprint,” said Ben Zuckerberg, a UW-Madison forest and wildlife ecology professor.
Quoted: “The dead zone conditions are really driven by excess nutrients coming into the bay and a lot of those are coming from agricultural run-off. And we actually here in the lower bay, Green Bay, receive about one-third of all the nutrients for all of Lake Michigan,” says Julia Noordyk, Wisconsin Sea Grant Water Quality Specialist.
Wisconsin is home to an estimated 308 farmers markets of all sizes and geographical locations. And now researchers from UW-Madison and UW-Extension have taken a dive into the numbers and issues that farmers markets face.
Noted: UW oncologist Dr. Noelle Loconte says getting needed research dollars for pancreatic cancer is difficult because there are no advocates.
Noted:A few decades later, white women would become central to the white power movement, which began in the mid-1970s and culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. In her book Bring the War Home, historian Kathleen Belew details how the protection of white femininity formed the core of that movement and how white women worked to broaden the appeal of the cause. Assessing those three books for Boston Review, historian Stephen Kantrowitz (professor of history at UW-Madison) observes that white women’s involvement in white supremacy “is not disconnected from the fact that a majority of white women voted for Trump.” It can still be difficult, he continues, “to take this a step further and acknowledge that feminism is not a strictly left phenomenon.” White women can and do use feminism help further white supremacy.
Includes interview with Keith Findley, associate professor of law.
Quoted: “We see over $1 billion in economic activity in these counties when we add up the infrastructure that’s out there and all the commerce that occurs between the production, the processing and the selling of the product,” said Jerry Clark, Chippewa County Agriculture Agent with UW-Extension.
Noted: “A warmer climate is making more favorable conditions for heavy rainfalls,” explains Steve Vavrus, senior scientist at the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin. Warmer air can hold more moisture, and climate models also predict storms will move more slowly, dumping rain for longer and resulting in more floods.
Noted: David Schwartz, professor of chemistry and genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, doesn’t think that’ll stop Barron: “She could walk through rock.” The two scientists met 19 years ago at a Gordon Research Conference and have remained close friends.
Noted: Many weed varieties aren’t toxic unless environmental conditions make them so. “If plants pick up a lot of nitrogens from rain and rapid growth, and animals eat a lot of them, they can die,” said Mark Renz, a University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension weed scientist.
Mark Stephenson, director of UW-Madison’s Center for Dairy Profitability, told Wisconsin Public Radio that farmers had avoided making large purchases during the past few years of low commodity prices.
Noted: Jacob Stampen, a University of Wisconsin-Madison emeritus professor of educational leadership and policy analysis, said his research reveals a growing partisanship that has made state lawmakers more indebted to party bosses than to the public. Stampen has been tracking voting in the Wisconsin Legislature since 2003. His first analysis of voting was as a graduate student at UW-Madison in the mid-’60s.
Interview with Hart Posen, associate professor of management and human resources at the Wisconsin School of Business.
Quoted: “A warmer climate is making more favorable conditions for heavy rainfalls,” explains Steve Vavrus, senior scientist at the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin. Warmer air can hold more moisture, and climate models also predict storms will move more slowly, dumping rain for longer and resulting in more floods.
Quoted: “Extreme droughts and high winds are increasing as climate is warming,” said Monica Turner, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who has spent three decades researching fires at Yellowstone National Park. “That’s the ultimate driver behind what’s happening in California.”
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison professor David Baum is a botanist who has studied boabs and baobabs for more than 30 years and he says that despite decades of research we still cannot say how boabs came to be in Australia.
Quoted: “One tick can crank out females in fairly large numbers,” said Thomas Yuill, a retired pathobiologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who was one of the first to raise alarms about the invaders.
Noted: While many commenters on Chinese social media speculated that the limit would be raised to three, Yi Fuxian, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison—and longtime critic of China’s birth policy—went further.
Interview with Dan Thoma, professor and director of the Grainger Institute for Engineering
Noted: Eating crickets can be good for your health, according to a new clinical study from UW-Madison. Just ask Valerie Stull, a recent doctoral graduate from the UW-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. She was 12 when she ate her first insect.
Quoted: “Know what items you’re looking for to buy and what the limits might be on those items,” said Cliff Robb, associate professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Increasingly, the lakes are rising above the maximum level set by the state, and the area may be on the cusp of flooding unlike anything in the last 100 years, said Ken Potter, a UW-Madison emeritus professor of civil and environmental engineering and an expert on flooding and stormwater management.
Noted: Kathy Cramer, a UW-Madison professor of political science and author of a book about Walker’s rise in Wisconsin, said recent scholarship confirms that “policy decisions most closely correspond to the political leanings of the wealthiest people in the population, and not so much to other people.” … Kenneth Mayer, a UW-Madison professor of political science, said other states allow for more direct public input and responsiveness through initiatives and referenda in which citizens make laws directly.
Noted: Jacob Stampen, a UW-Madison emeritus professor of educational leadership and policy analysis, said his research reveals a growing partisanship that has made state lawmakers more indebted to party bosses than to the public. Stampen has been tracking voting in the Wisconsin Legislature since 2003. His first analysis of voting was as a graduate student at UW-Madison in the mid-60s.
Noted: UW–Madison engineering professor Dan Thoma, who is also the Director of the Grainger Institute for Engineering, has worked in the field and with 3D printing technology for around 25 years. He said there’s a lot more that goes into creating 3D printed items than simply hitting a button.
Noted: Amy Achter, director of partner development for Nature’s Bounty, a vitamin and nutritional-supplement manufacturer, will become managing director of the Office of Business Engagement at the University of Wisconsin at Madison this month.
Noted: “When people are moving to places they bring diseases with them that the home population might not be immune to, and on the flip side these people are moving into places where they might not have immunity to the diseases in the new place,” says Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: “Some of this may reflect the availability of the reinsurance program. As well, it may be that the carrier’s substantial increases last year occurred based on an overly-pessimistic expectation, given the relatively robust ACA enrollment that ended up occurring regardless — thanks largely to the ability of the federal premium subsidies to offset the rate increases for many people,” Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Population Health Institute.
Interviewed: Barbara Mergen Alvarado currently serves as the volunteer board president of the Madison Arcatao Sister City Project and has led numerous delegations to El Salvador. She is an honorary fellow at UW–Madison’s Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies program researching migration, human rights, and cross-border organizing in Latin America.
Noted: Eleanor Powell, University of Wisconsin-Madison political science associate professor, said that if it weren’t for the help of one particular GOP donor, Nicholson might still be a political unknown.
Noted: Experts like UW-Extension Horticulture Educator Vijai Pandian said Japanese Beetles are going to be horrendous this year, with a bigger population than years past.
Noted: Yodelers such as Johnson, who sing the country western warble made popular in the 1930s and ’40s, are aging out of performing. “It is uncommon to hear it in Minnesota,” said former folklore professor James Leary, who wrote a book on yodeling and Swiss music in Wisconsin.
Noted: The industry was barely starting to recover when the tariffs came, Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin, told Xinhua. “So farms are now looking at another period of time with low prices,” he said.
More than 20 plant breeders from UW-Madison, other universities, seed companies, non-profits and independent farms have contributed numerous varieties of 12 different crops to the project. Trials are conducted at UW-West Madison Agricultural Research Station and UW-Spooner Agricultural Research Station to compare crops for flavor, productivity, disease resistance and earliness.
Quoted: “At a minimum, you want to have open communication,” advises Dr. Luke Funk, assistant professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before beginning a weight-loss program or having surgery, couples should discuss why the overweight partner wants to lose weight, what lifestyle changes will be needed and how they both will benefit from new habits.
Quoted: “I once heard a senior number theorist, who I will not name, say that Scholze had kind of ruined his to-do list for the next 20 years,” said Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin.
Interview with Joann Peck from the Wisconsin School of Business.
Quoted: “This is a site that had an enduring importance to people for 12,000 years,” said Sissel Schroeder, a UW-Madison anthropologist who in 2001 began studying the 37 acres that rises over the river a few miles south of McFarland.
Quoted: Steph Tai, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, framed it this way: An environmental violation is noncompliance with environmental law, whereas environmental fraud is concealing the fact of that noncompliance. They are different legal categories.
Quoted: Ian Baird, a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has done research in the area, said the 3S basin was highly multiethnic, with most villagers subsisting on food from rivers and forests.
Quoted: “This is a site that had an enduring importance to people for 12,000 years,” said Sissel Schroeder, a UW-Madison anthropologist who in 2001 began studying the 37 acres that rises over the river a few miles south of McFarland. “That’s really remarkable.”
