Noted: One key reason, say Doug Bradley and Craig Werner, authors of the book We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War, is the role technology played in getting the music to the battlefield. Between radio, portable record players, early cassette players and live bands coming to Vietnam, soldiers in that war had far more access to music than their forebears.
Noted: Genetically, corn is a “highly variable species” and one that is “relatively easy to manipulate,” said Bill Tracy, an agronomy professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Noted: Self-help enthusiasts do buy an awful lot of books. A third to one-half of all Americans will buy a self-help title in their lifetimes, said Christine Whelan, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, adding that at any given time there are more than 45,000 titles in print.
Quoted: “It’s not any single gene that makes a huge difference … It’s not like morning people have one thing and evening people have another,” says anthropologist John Hawks, of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “It’s many genes. Each of them has some small effect. This study is pointing out that, hey, there’s one of these [genes] that has a small effect coming from Neanderthals.”
Noted: The sequencing of this new genome also represents “a real technical advance,” says anthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin. Until now, the only high-quality Neanderthal DNA has come from a cave in Denisova in Siberia, where DNA is well-preserved because of the freezing temperatures year-round, Hawks explains. But the new genome came from bones found in a more temperate cave, where DNA preservation is suboptimal.
Ane says that the Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center, a plant biotechnology center at UW-Madison, provides the expertise that would be required to translate findings from poplar research to cereals like corn, wheat and rice.
As a longtime professor of Wisconsin constitutional law and government, I have been lamenting that Wisconsin’s constitution and institutions have been largely absent from the Wisconsin redistricting case just argued in the U.S. Supreme Court. Simply put, the case should have gone through the state court system using state constitutional arguments.
Quoted: “The biologist in me says, ‘Preserve everything. We don’t have the right to make the decision to get rid of an entire species,’ ” says Susan Paskewitz, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and chairman of the Department of Entomology. “The global health specialist in me says, ‘A half a million people die from malaria, most of them under the age of 5. That’s an awful lot of suffering.’ ”
Quoted: With Wisconsin being one of the most politically divided states, Dave Schroeder, a U.S. Navy intelligence officer and cybersecurity expert at UW-Madison, said it’s no surprise Russian actors are targeting it.
Noted: Congress usually reauthorizes the program’s funding with broad bipartisan support, said Dipesh Navsaria, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and vice president of the Wisconsin chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Quoted: The “stark reality” of lower academic achievement transcends borders and calls for shared strategies between countries, says Jerlando Jackson, professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and chair of the International Colloquium on Black Males in Education.
Noted: The U.S. system may have been based on a delegate model, but it evolved into something more individualistic, closer to a trustee relationship. By the 1970s, any form of independent voting had succumbed to a party-bloc voting model, something closer to the British Parliament, according to Barry Burden, professor of political science and director of the election research center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Noted: If the Supreme Court does rule that the Wisconsin map is unconstitutional, it could invalidate district maps in 20 other states, Barry C. Burden, the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told the Times. According to the paper, a dozen or so Congressional districts could also be challenged.
“The market — if they want to keep workers — should push employers to do better for them on scheduling,” said UW-Madison economist Tim Smeeding, but some governments can and have enacted policies to allow for more family-friendly scheduling.
Noted: “People with heart disease are especially susceptible to getting worse if they get the flu,” said Orly Vardeny, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of pharmacy and co-principal investigator for a flu vaccine trial. Some of the factors that make heart disease worse are further increased by the flu.
Noted: Nonetheless, Ian Baird, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has expertise on natural resources management in Southeast Asia, said the lack of flood forecasting and control in the Sesan and Srepok river basins at the national level in Cambodia is a big concern “as erratic water releases from the [Lower Sesan II Dam], designed to maximise profit from electricity sales .?.?. should be expected”.
Noted: UW-Madison Political Scientist Barry Burden says in 2020 when states are again redrawing their political boundaries, they likely would use the ruling in Wisconsin as the blueprint.
A UW-Madison professor and athletic trainer will be in Minocqua Wednesday evening to speak on the consequences of early sport specialization in youth athletes. Dr. David Bell says this area of research has been a hot topic and has been cited in the New York Times, on NPR, and in Time magazine.
Noted: A decisive ruling striking down the Wisconsin Assembly map could invalidate redistricting maps in up to 20 other states, said Barry C. Burden, the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Other analysts said that at least a dozen House districts would be open to court challenges if the court invalidated Wisconsin’s map. Some place the number of severely gerrymandered House districts as high as 20.
Noted: “This is a trauma that doesn’t go away,” said Marsha Mailick, a social scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied bereavement.
More research suggests that student athletes who focus on a single sport are more likely to be injured than multi-sport athletes.Dr. David Bell works for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Departments of Kinesiology, Orthopedics, and Rehabilitation.
Noted: Erin Silva is an organic production specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She says the increase in farms will strengthen the industry. Silva says growing consumer demand for organic products means there’s room for more farms in the industry.
Noted: “This is a trauma that doesn’t go away,” said Marsha Mailick, a social scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied bereavement.
“If people are having fewer children, there’s going to be a smaller pool entering the labor force 20 to 25 years down the road,” said David Egan-Robertson, a demographer at UW-Madison’s Applied Population Laboratory.
“It’s a positive thing,” said Dr. Deb Ehrenthal, a UW-Madison associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and population health sciences. “Kids do better if they’re born into a more stable setting.”
Noted: Ani Turner, one of the leaders of the nonprofit Altarum health consulting firm, said she calculated the percentage to be 32 percent. And Donna Friedsam, a health policy expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, put the figure at 33 percent.
Quoted: But a more diverse population of teachers alone won’t help students of color, says Gloria Ladson-Billings, a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. To change attitudes and behaviors about school, she says, “We need teachers who view their students of color as whole people.”
Quoted: “It’s potentially important, and it’s provocative,” said David H. O’Connor, head of global infectious diseases at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s primate center, which has tested the Zika virus in monkeys.
Dr. Ken Mayer published his findings based on surveys filled out by 2,400 registered voters in the two counties who did not vote last November.
Quoted: “Neuroscientific research into empathy shows that if you’re empathising with a person who is in pain, anxious or depressed, your brain will show activation of very similar circuits as the brain of the person with whom you’re empathising,” notes Richard Davidson, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The study, conducted by researchers from the University of Wisconsin, the University of Georgia and California State University, looked at appreciation since Jan. 1, 2014, when Colorado’s recreational cannabis law took effect. “The presence of retail marijuana establishments clearly had a short-term positive impact on nearby properties in Denver,” says Moussa Diop, an assistant professor of real estate at Wisconsin.
Russian cyberactors might have thought accessing Workforce Development systems would help them access voter files, said Barry Burden, a UW-Madison professor and elections expert.
A Voter ID law and presidential candidates’ failure to show up in the state contributed to a surprising drop in voter turnout among Wisconsin college students, said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at UW-Madison.
Noted: Sylvester first learned of corpse flowers after reading a scientific article about it from Mohammad Fayyaz, a scientist and former director of the University of Wisconsin Madison Botany Greenhouse and Botanical Garden. Fayyaz grew his first Titan Arum from seed collected by James Symon and Wilbert Hetterscheid, who traveled to Sumatra in 1993.
“It’s a new class of astronomical events. We know very little about FRBs in general,” explains Justin Vandenbroucke, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist who, with his colleagues, is turning IceCube, the world’s most sensitive neutrino telescope, to the task of helping demystify the powerful pulses of radio energy generated up to billions of light-years from Earth.
Another site with oral history interviews is the UW-Madison’s library’s Wisconsin farms history section or history departments at the UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee, UW-Oshkosh, or UW-Whitewater. The UW has over 300 oral history interviews.
A study released Monday estimates 16,800 or more people in Dane and Milwaukee counties were deterred from casting ballots in November because of Wisconsin’s voter ID law.
Quoted: Despite the premier’s assessment, fish experts have long warned about damage to migration routes. Ian Baird, a geographer at the University of Wisconsin who studies Mekong River fisheries, said fish rely on the ability to move between the Sesan and Srepok rivers and the Tonle Sap to breed.
Noted: The essay, a roughly 500-word sermonlike meditation called “Individual Influence,” was found at the New York Public Library by Jonathan Senchyne, an assistant professor of book history at the University of Wisconsin. The document, which will be published in October in PMLA — the journal of the Modern Language Association — appears to be the first prose essay in Horton’s handwriting to come to light, and one of only a handful of manuscripts in his own handwriting known to survive.
Crayola’s new color, “Blue-tiful,” has sparked up quite the debate. Majid Sarmadi is an expert on color theory and technology, looks into the conversation.
Noted: “Leghemoglobin is structurally similar to proteins that we consume all the time,” says Impossible Foods’ chief science officer David Lipman. “But we did the toxicity studies anyway and they showed that that was safe.” They compared the protein to known allergens, for instance, and found no matches. The company also got the OK from a panel of experts, including food scientist Michael Pariza at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Interview with Peggy Olive, financial capability specialist from the School of Human Ecology.
Noted: “Neuroscientific research on empathy shows that if you’re empathizing with a person who is in pain, anxious or depressed, your brain will show activation of very similar circuits as the brain of the person with whom you’re empathizing,” notes Richard Davidson, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Noted: While New York’s growth may be bad for Wisconsin’s ranking, Erin Silva, organic production specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it’s good for the state’s farmers.
Dan Olszewski, director of UW-Madison’s Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship, said the biggest challenges startup companies face are finding its target user and effectively marketing to them.
Noted: Jan-Peter Van Pijkeren at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with startup companies like Eligo Bioscience and Locus Bioscience, are developing CRISPR therapies that tell harmful bacteria to make fatal cuts to its own DNA.
UW-Madison Political Science professor Howard Schweber explains his take on the possible problem areas of the law.
Noted: “Leghemoglobin is structurally similar to proteins that we consume all the time,” says Impossible Foods’ chief science officer David Lipman. “But we did the toxicity studies anyway and they showed that that was safe.” They compared the protein to known allergens, for instance, and found no matches. The company also got the OK from a panel of experts, including food scientist Michael Pariza at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
“There still have been no known instances of humans contracting CWD, but hunters should know the new study demonstrates the risk isn’t nonexistent,” Keith Poulsen, of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, told the Wisconsin State Journal last week. CWD is related to incurable illnesses, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease found in humans, which can cause dementia and death.
Noted: “The study is correct to note that rates of adoption of non-carbon polluting energy sources and fossil fuel emissions reductions are occurring faster than projected in many places,” Ankur Desai, a professor in atmospheric and oceanic sciences at University of Wisconsin–Madison, told weather.com in an email.
Noted: The cold-resistant missing parent remained a secret until 2011 when Dr. Chris Hittinger from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an international team of geneticists and microbiologists from the U.S., Portugal and Argentina identified S. eubayanus in wild samples from a Nothofagus tree in Patagonian forests.
Quoted: “There’s been a pretty steady, exponential rise in the number of objects that space-faring nations have sent into space over the course of the last half century,” says Lisa Ruth Rand, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is writing a book on space trash. “Anytime we launch something into space, for the most part, we’re also generating space junk.”
Noted: “Rapid intensification likes to occur when the potential intensity is far from the actual intensity,” said Jim Kossin, a hurricane scientist with NOAA and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Rapid intensification likes a lot of head-room. Those warm waters have been creating some very high potential intensity, which increases the head-room.”
Noted: “The fact that these two kinds of estimates don’t match is an issue we have yet to work out,” said John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Laura Dresser, associate director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at UW-Madison, said addressing the state’s workforce needs won’t happen one employer at a time, but rather with an investment in infrastructure, education and workers.
Noted: Douglas McLeod, professor of journalism and mass communications at University of Wisconsin-Madison, said protests would happen with or without cameras and reporters present.
Noted: “The amount of water that fell was unprecedented,” said Shane Hubbard, an associate researcher at the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Judith N. Burstyn, chair of UW Madison’s chemistry department, is no stranger to issues of sexual harassment. When she was a graduate student, someone left sexually explicit messages in her books.
UW’s Keith Poulson says there’s new suspicion that Chronic Wasting Disease could be passed to primates. We’ll find out why he says hunters should get the deer they harvest this year tested for CWD.
Noted: In a column that appears on WisOpinion, Professor Emeritus Jacob Stampen of UW-Madison writes about the crony capitalism represented by what he calls the KM — the “Koch Machine.”
Noted: Michael Caldwell, a staff psychologist at Mendota Mental Health Institute and a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was hired by Weier’s attorneys to evaluate her in July 2014.
