Quoted: “Basically, they’re going to destroy 25 percent of the crop,” said Paul Mitchell, a University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural economist.
Noted: “Many forces in our culture have conspired to elevate anxiety and stress — in part due to a lot of messages related to fear in the media — and this makes people unsettled,” Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin Madison and founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds, told Vox. “I think there is an increasing interest in strategies like yoga and meditation that can help people adjust to modern circumstances.”
Noted: Professor of meteorology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jon Martin says climate change is contributing to more downpours and flooding across southern Wisconsin compared to 50 years ago.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a political science professor at UW-Madison, said Wisconsin midterm election voter turnout tends to be higher than the national average. “We think when the final data comes in it will be over 60 percent of eligible voters. That is higher than probably any other state, and would be higher than a lot of states had in their presidential election,” he said.
Quoted: “The youth vote was huge in this election,” said UW Madison political science professor David Canon.
Quoted: Tammy Baldwin’s trouncing of Republican challenger Leah Vukmir in Wisconsin’s Senate race is also a bright spot for Democrats, says Barry Burden, a UW-Madison political science professor.
“The Senate race reflects Tammy Baldwin’s hard work over the last six years in building a familiarity and a base of support around the state, and even identifying issues where she can work with Republicans and President Trump while still keeping her base in Madison and other Democratic areas,” he says. “That’s really been a masterful performance from an incumbent politician.”
Quoted: Analysts say that voters long ago made up their mind about Walker, with voters evenly divided about him throughout the recall effort and failed presidential bid through the present day, according to Barry C. Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: “These states can swing either way,” said Barry Burden, political science professor and director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Elections Research Centre, referring to the industrial midwest. “It’s not all over for Trump, but these states need constant tending.”
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Barry Burden said he was interested in watching what would happen to Walker’s statewide formula for success.
Quoted: Kathy Cramer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said she has been observing the suburban-rural split for a decade in her home state of Wisconsin. Republican politicians, and Trump in particular, have learned how to tap into the racial, cultural and economic anxieties of white rural voters
Quoted: A Walker win would have re-affirmed his status as a leading national voice in the GOP after his fall from grace in 2015, said Barry Burden, a UW-Madison political science professor.
Noted: Professor of meteorology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,Jon Martin says climate change is contributing to more downpours and flooding across southern Wisconsin compared to 50 years ago.
Quoted: Tammy Baldwin’s trouncing of Republican challenger Leah Vukmir in Wisconsin’s Senate race is also a bright spot for Democrats, says Barry Burden, a UW-Madison political science professor.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a political science professor and the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin Madison, told Vox: “It’s a little like a worker at a retail establishment at the end of the day closing down the cash register and trying to make sure the drawer adds up to the amount that was charged during the day.”
Walker paid the price of an incumbent whose party is in control at the federal and local level, said Barry Burden, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the school’s Elections Research Center.
During this time, a series of storms dropped heavy rains across large swaths of Wisconsin and surrounding states. Much of southern and central Wisconsin received several inches of rain, and some counties were inundated with 10-plus inches of rain in short periods of time. Devastating flooding ensued, and it was only a matter of time before the mosquitoes responded as well.
Barry Burden, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Elections Research Center, says budget bills are a favorite hiding place for unpopular legislation.
Featured: On Election Day eve, host Kerri Miller turned to pollsters from around the region, including Brad Coker of Mason Dixon Polling to talk about Minnesota; Barry Burden from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to talk about Gov. Scott Walker’s re-election bid and other races in Wisconsin; and Ann Selzer, who runs her own polling organization in Iowa, called Selzer and Company.
Quoted: Derek Johnson, associate professor of media and culture studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the concept of binge-watching isn’t new or limited just to streaming services, given that cable channels will stack episodes of the same show next to each other.
Quoted: Workers might also run or print out a summary of the voting machine, a kind of receipt for the number of ballots cast, said Barry Burden, a political science professor and the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
Quoted: Jeff Smith, a film professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose research focuses on the use of music in film, predicts that “Bohemian Rhapsody” will give a boost to Queen’s recordings. It wouldn’t even be the first time a film has been a boon for the band.
Quoted: Black churches used Sunday services to push people to the polls in what they called ”souls to the polls” initiatives, Barry Burden, a political scientist with the University of Wisconsin Madison, recalls.
Quoted: Barry Burden, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, characterized the rival political parties as “a Democratic Party that’s enthused and active” and a Republican Party “who are playing defense and hoping to hold on to what they have.”
Noted: William H. Tishler, a professor emeritus of landscape architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a Door County native and author of a history of the park.
Quoted: The area is more in play than other traditionally red parts of the state, said David Canon, professor of political science at UW-Madison. “Because politics is so polarized today there just aren’t as many people who are up for grabs in the middle,” Canon said. “The parties are viewing this as a base election.”
Quoted: MPR News with Angela DavisPollsters from around the region, including Brad Coker of Mason Dixon Polling, talk about Minnesota races. Barry Burden from the University of Wisconsin-Madison discusses Gov. Scott Walker’s re-election bid and other races in Wisconsin; and Ann Selzer, who runs her own polling organization in Iowa, called Selzer and Company.
Quoted: “The argument that there’s massive voter impersonation, fraud… It is demonstrably untrue,” said Kenneth Mayer of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Studies disagree about whether the credit spurred job growth, with University of Wisconsin-Madison economics professor Noah Williams crediting it with creating 20,000 manufacturing jobs while the Wisconsin Budget Project cites federal statistics showing state manufacturing job and wage growth continue to be slower here than the national average.
Noted: Catalina Toma, an associate professor at UW-Madison who studies how people interact using technology and online tools, says these groups allow people to share information anonymously in an environment where staying anonymous is difficult.
A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has mathematically concluded what Packer national already knows: Aaron Rodgers is a better quarterback than Tom Brady. UW-Madison math professor Jordan Ellenberg — author of the bestseller “How Not to Be Wrong” — will make his numbers-crunching case for Rodgers in a pregame feature during the national broadcast Sunday of the match-up between the Green Bay Packers and Brady’s team, the New England Patriots.
Noted: “It’s sort of the best possible way of describing rational solutions for these curves,” said Bjorn Poonen, a mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-author of the model along with Park, John Voight of Dartmouth College, and Melanie Matchett Wood of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Farmers who are hesitant about transitioning to no-till practices might consider doing a test and hiring someone to do the no-till planting. The Uplands Watershed Group has a no-till drill available to rent at an economical cost, said Daniel Smith, southwest regional specialist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Nutrient and Pest-Management Program.
A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has mathematically concluded what Packer national already knows: Aaron Rodgers is a better quarterback than Tom Brady.
UW-Madison math professor Jordan Ellenberg — author of the bestseller “How Not to Be Wrong” — will make his numbers-crunching case for Rodgers in a pregame feature during the national broadcast Sunday of the match-up between the Green Bay Packers and Brady’s team, the New England Patriots.
Quoted: In the state capital of Madison, Prof. Barry Burden of the University of Wisconsin gives the lay of the political land.“I think a lot of the things we’re seeing on the ground in Wisconsin look like what we’re seeing nationally,” he explained.
Quoted: “Walker is really moderating: all of a sudden he’s for things he’s literally suing the federal government over,” says Mike Wagner, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin. “It’s a smart campaign move given the way public opinion in Wisconsin has shifted. But it’s a tough argument for him to make.”
Guests include Michael Apple, professor of curriculum and instruction, and educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “I was really just grateful that her co-workers recognized what was happening and having other people in the community recognize the symptoms of stroke even if it’s not happening to them,” said Dr. Natalie Wheeler, a neurologist at UW Hospital.
Dr. Marcia Slattery, the head of the UW Anxiety Center, talks about how you can help kids with anxiety cope on Halloween.
Quoted: “It’s extraordinarily unlikely that a single product is going to have a positive effect on a whole series of diseases,” said Alta Charo, a UW professor of law and bioethics.
Featured: Eavesdropping on non-human communication: Simon Gilroy – Professor of botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison. His video of glowing green caterpillar-munched plants can be viewed here.
Quoted: “They could be the factor that ends up tipping the election,” explained Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Well, Bapna and Martin Ganco from University of Wisconsin-Madison may have found a shorter-term option for creatives through a field experiment on an equity crowdfunding platform.
Quoted: “Sadly, I think the Bush v. Gore decision back in 2000 was the big bang that began this process,” said Barry Burden, who directs the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: “There’s a long-standing strand of thinking in Wisconsin that big business can be harmful,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Shawn Conley is a soybean and small grains specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He says farmers should send crop samples to a lab to be tested for mycotoxin. The toxic substance can produce mold that can cause health problems in cattle and other livestock.
Noah Williams research noted, Barry Burden quoted.
The assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Human Ecology is an expert on VR.
Quoted: Scientists say the public doesn’t have to imagine what might happen if climate change isn’t addressed. Communities across Wisconsin witnessed the effects this past summer, according to Paul Robbins, director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.”The changes are increased precipitation in extreme weather events like the kind we saw … down in this part of the state. I mean, really gully washers,” Robbins said. “Two inches or more or 4 inches or more in a 24-, 48-hour period. We had 15 inches of rain.”
Quoted: However, major depression is not an inflammatory disorder, Psych Congress co-chair Charles Raison, MD, professor of psychiatry at University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, stressed during his presentation.
Quoted: “There is work to be done to boost turnout among black voters in Wisconsin,” said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
Quoted: Purchasing bitcoin itself is fairly easy, said Bob Turner, Chief Information Security Officer at UW–Madison. “Sometimes all you need is a credit card, and you can buy the bitcoin,” he said.
Quoted: But based on the research to date attempting to track prevalence of lucid dreaming, estimates are that somewhere around 50 to 80 percent of people have had a lucid dream in their lifetime, notes Benjamin Baird, a research scientist at Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Consciousness at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies lucid dreams. “Some people have lucid dreams more frequently naturally. Some people never have lucid dreams,” he says. “For most people, they occur very infrequently.”
Quoted: Howard Schweber, Ph.D. a professor of American politics who teaches constitutional law at the University of Wisconsin, Madison agrees that the attempt to put a hex on Kavanaugh is doubly protected as both free speech and free religious exercise.
At a meeting here this week, convened by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM’s) Institute for Laboratory Animal Research, neuroscientist Jon Levine, who directs the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, likened the surge in demand to “a 10-alarm fire that’s about to be set.”
Quoted: “One of the biggest ways is that it lowers the tax rate,” said Fabio Gaertner, associate professor at the Wisconsin School of Business. A lower tax rate means companies keep more of their money.
Mitchell says recent wet weather has delayed harvest and caused widespread mold problems in the field this year. While some soybean fields have been affected, Shawn Conley, soybean and small grains specialist at UW-Madison, said disease problems have been more prevalent in the state’s corn fields.
Quoted: “I think we have realized as Madison residents just how much Epic has transformed our city in many ways,” said David Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who researches elections and redistricting. “There’s no doubt that if they did participate (in elections) on levels that were equal to the average Dane County voter, they’d have a huge impact.”
Noted: Clifton Conrad interviewed.
Quoted: Julie Underwood, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education, says exposing kids to careers through programs like the one in Janesville is important so long as it doesn’t come at the expense of other educational services.
State statutes “give a presumption of least restrictive setting for both pre-adjudication and disposition,” according to Kenneth Streit, a clinical professor of law emeritus and expert in juvenile justice at the University of Wisconsin Law School — meaning both before the child has been found guilty of a crime and after guilt has been determined.
