Category: UW Experts in the News

Noted: Moving to another state comes with several costs. According to a model developed by the University of Wisconsin economists John Kennan and James R. Walker, those costs can be very high. There’s the obvious expense of moving. On top of that, a move to a more-prosperous area will likely mean a substantial increase in the cost of rent or homeownership, even if a mover’s earnings edge up only a little.

Noted: “Most of the archaeological evidence for movement is based on artifacts, but artifacts can be stolen or copied, so they are not a real good proxy for actual human movement,” says archaeologist Doug Price of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who tracks ancient migration by analyzing isotopes. “When I started doing this in 1990, I thought people were very sedentary and didn’t move around much.”

Noted: While a case could be made that the editors should have known about Washington’s NRA work when they hired her and handled her column accordingly, Katy Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said debating that misses the point.

Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said there typically needs to be a lot of public dissatisfaction with both of the major party candidates for an independent or a third-party candidate to succeed. Burden said he doesn’t think those conditions exist in Wisconsin.

“We are getting more and more requests from patients who say, ‘I want to avoid sedation if it’s not necessary,'” said Dr. Mike Ford, an anesthesiologist at UW Health. “Some patients don’t like the idea of losing complete control.”

Noted: That’s when his producer, Scott Rudin, proposed a playwriting method you might call dial-a-feminist. Hnath reached out to several academics, including Susan Brantly, who teaches Scandinavian literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: But Brian Gould, professor of agricultural economics and agribusiness at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, isn’t so sure.

Noted: “The whole purpose of protest is to be rude,” said Pamela Oliver, professor of sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s not like they hadn’t warned the college that they (the students) were upset about it.”

Noted: At 18 months, Avi had an airway the size of a 24-week fetus, the size of a pin. About 75 percent of her airway was obstructed, said Tony Kille, a pediatric otolaryngologist and associate professor at UW-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health.

Noted: The stickiness of erroneous beliefs such as a connection between autism and vaccines is often cited as proof of a growing mistrust of science, as an institution, in American culture, but that’s probably not the most useful framing, said Dominique Brossard, professor of science and technology studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: Nathan Gibson, ethno-American music curator at the University of Wisconsin Madison, discussed his research on the Starday record label, which originated in Beaumont in the 1950s.

Noted: “The jury’s still out,” said Dr. Michael Fiore, founder and director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, a 25-year-old program.

Quoted: Local architecture historian and UW-Madison professor Anna Andrzejewski described the meatpackers’ presence as “transformative” for the city. “To have meatpacking and a big company come (to the east side) and create such a presence really locked in the idea of this working class industrial east side,” said Andrzejewski, who is also a member of the Madison Landmarks Commission.

Quoted: “When you have farmers themselves saying there’s too much milk out there, you know that’s a problem,” said Steven Deller, a University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural economist.

Noted: Martha Maurer, a policy program manager and researcher at the Pain and Policy Studies Group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agreed that opioid abuse in the United States was an epidemic.

Quoted: “A fairly high proportion who get sick and go to the doctor end up with permanent neurological damage,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison Entomology Professor Susan Paskewitz.

Quoted: “In Wisconsin, I think we can rest relatively well assured that Zika virus transmission is pretty unlikely,” said Dr. Kathleen Antony, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist with UW Health.

Noted: “Now that I think back, there was no evidence for the assumption that he was retiring except that it was called a retirement celebration,” said Mark Hill, a PhD student of Patterson’s in 1987, and one of the speakers at his party.

Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison entomology department chair Susan Paskewitz said other less common tick-borne diseases like Ehrlichiosis, Babesiosis, Anaplasmosis and Powassan virus have been on the rise as well.

Noted: “But it had kind of been bothering me that nobody looked at how energy use on hot days also contributes to ozone,” said study author Tracey Holloway, a researcher at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “How do you control air pollution on the dirtiest days? And how much are our power plant emissions changing when we have those hot chemically reactive days?”

Noted: The magazine’s promotional materials are directed more at adults shopping for young people than at teenagers themselves. That’s because nostalgia is an important ingredient in the magazine’s relaunch, said Susan B. Ridgely, a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: But a top U.S. toxicologist disputes that assessment, noting that “trace amount” isn’t a scientific term, and is often used subjectively to play down any problems. Minute levels of chemicals can have dangerous effects on the body, said Dr. Warren Porter, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Another expert told The Globe that levels above 1 ppm are not considered trace amounts.

Noted: Karen Strier, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin who has studied monkeys in the Atlantic Forest in Brazil since the 1980s, said she had never seen monkeys die from disease in such high numbers. She described a “sense of emptiness” in a reserve near Caratinga in Minas Gerais State, where howler monkeys had largely vanished.

Noted: The magazine’s promotional materials are directed more at adults shopping for young people than at teenagers themselves. That’s because nostalgia is an important ingredient in the magazine’s relaunch, said Susan B. Ridgely, a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: Interview with Alfred McCoy.

Noted: Hilary Dugan, the study’s lead researcher and an inland water researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said that eventually the chloride will kill plants and animals that aren’t able to adapt.

Noted: “This is a big deal, it’s a big deterrent if other cities follow suit. But Airbnb isn’t dead, it certainly has more to its business model,” said Andra Ghent a professor of real estate and urban land economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: “You’re looking for your place as they are looking for their next faculty member,” said Dr. Taucia Gonzalez, an assistant professor of education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “Finding the right fit is important.”

Noted: “It’s not just activating the brain, it’s getting the right cells within that area,” said Justin Williams, chair of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who is leading one of the teams under the DARPA initiative. “That’s where we think that activating the periphery might have some benefit.”

Noted: “Casinos are trained to make you feel welcome, while you lose your life,” said Sandra Adell, 70, a literature professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who recounted her experiences as a compulsive gambler in the book “Confessions of a Slot Machine Queen.” In an interview, Professor Adell said that advertisements aimed at older adults often show smiling people, dressed up and looking glamorous, “to create an illusion that plays to people’s weaknesses.”

Noted: The discovery of the hobbits themselves was “uncovering something that seems to have a history of a million years that no one had even guessed at,” says John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: The United States spends more than any other country on health care and prescription drugs are one reason why, says Kevin Look, a University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy assistant professor.

Noted: In the age of technology with literally everything at your fingertips, meeting people online has never been more popular but it also comes with risks, according to Jonathan D’Angelo, a University of Wisconsin-Madison communication technology researcher.

Noted: But Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that could be changing.

Noted: University of Wisconsin, Madison paleoanthropologist John Hawks was flummoxed. He told Ars, “I’m not usually at a loss for words, but this one has left me and many of my friends speechless.”

Noted: Echoing this observation, Erika Bullock, an assistant professor of math education at University of Wisconsin-Madison, welcomed the whiteness paper’s framing of racism in institutional terms.

Noted: Parents don’t have to be money experts to talk about the importance of delayed gratification or the difference between wants and needs, says report researcher Elizabeth Odders-White, associate finance professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Noted: “This would have a disastrous effect on people’s lives,” said Dr. Richard Brown, a health policy professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison. “This will have all sorts of devastating ripples for families that are already stressed and trying to do the best they can with limited resources.”

Noted: Gloria Ladson-Billings, the Kellner Family Distinguished Professor in Urban Education and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, called Hoffman’s email “baffling.”