Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said people shouldn’t view the stay as an indication of where the court stands on the case overall. He added, though, that because of the time it will take for the Supreme Court to decide the case, “In 2018, we’re very likely to be using the districts we have today,” regardless of how the court rules. He said he doesn’t believe the court will rule until possibly the middle of 2018.
Quoted: “Many women in the mindfulness group used the skills to avoid pain medication in early labor and then opted for epidural when things became more intense, but as a more intentional, mindful choice, versus out of fear of the bodily sensations of labor,” said lead study author Larissa Duncan of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Chin Wu, an environmental engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin, who is helping lead the Ann Arbor meteotsunami forum, “The energy (of the regressing wave) can sustain for 10 or 20 minutes. So you can imagine a swimmer swept far out into the lake, trying to fight it for that long.”
Noted: Heat kills ten times more people in the U.S. than tornados or other extreme weather events, says Richard Keller, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of medical history.
Noted: But Lydia Zepeda, a consumer science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has found the largest consensus for what is local to be any product that comes from within an hour’s drive. But is that with or without traffic? she asks.
It’s no secret Donald Trump benefited from rural voters. But Democrat or Republican, they usually tell Katherine Cramer – who has spent a decade visiting residents of small-town Wisconsin – the same thing: it’s the cities that get all the breaks, and then have the gall to look down on them, too
Noted: The students also met with Lesley Sager, assistant faculty associate in the design studies department of the School of Human Ecology at UW Madison, and some university students who took part in the study-abroad program, UW Design Studies in Kenya, which she led. The college students talked about their experiences there and the East students did an exercise that involved cutting out magazine pictures that depict things teenagers value.
Noted: Melih Eriten is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Jordan Ellenberg is the John D. MacArthur and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of “How Not to Be Wrong.”
Noted: Barry Burden, a political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin Madison, said the efficiency gap was a fundamental part of the case aimed at providing Kennedy with a concrete way of distinguishing when a gerrymander is constitutional and when it isn’t.
Quoted: UW-Madison Political Science professor Barry Burden predicts even more candidates. He says some will be lured by the open seat; meanwhile, people with liberal leanings may feel compelled to run. Burden says that’s because no one challenged Justice Annette Ziegler this year when she ran for reelection. Burden also expects a lot of campaign spending:
Noted: Medical historian Judy Leavitt, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, traces the history of fathers and childbirth in her book “Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room.”
There’s an online dating site for nearly everybody, but can too many choices be problematic? Live at Four talks with professor Catalina Toma, one of the authors of a recent University of Wisconsin study, that reveals choice overload can raise the stakes.
Noted: Interview with Hart Posen of the Wisconsin School of Business.
Noted: The results highlight the fact that the fetal immune system is not merely an immature, less-active version of its adult counterpart, but one that has its own distinct function, says transplant immunologist William Burlingham at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Noted: Folks insist that the pasteurisation process decreases some of milk’s nutritional value, and that drinking raw milk might confer some sort of protective effect against allergies or asthma. There’s some evidence that the pasteurisation can affect proteins and vitamins, but not enough to lead to a nutritional deficiency. Nor is there much evidence to back up the protective effect, according to a review in Nutrition Today by University of Wisconsin food science professor John Lucey.
Video: Dr. Moses Altsech is the president of Moses Altsech Consulting and in the UW Schools of Human Ecology and Business. He talks about what the rate increase might mean
“It’s always exciting to be here,” said Schroeder as she watched members of her team check the measurements on the westernmost pit. “This is the third consecutive summer on this project to discover and explore what daily life at Aztalan was like 900 to 1,000 years ago.”
Noted: “It’s an association. It doesn’t show cause and effect. So it’s hard to know what the children who may not have been drinking cow’s milk, what else was going on in their diet,” said Beth Olson, associate professor of nutrition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “They also didn’t distinguish between the types of non-cow’s milk and those sources can be quite different.”
Noted: Doctors in the study also overused medical terms that patients might not understand, said co-author Dr. Toby Campbell, chief of palliative care at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Interviewed: Susan Paskewitz talks about the upcoming tick season, and ways we can protect ourselves from getting bitten.
Recognizing poisonous plants and knowing proper livestock management are important steps in minimizing the potential for poisoning according to Mark Renz, University of Wisconsin-Extension weed scientist at UW-Madison.
“We often receive questions about toxic plants, the level of toxicity, and what animals they are toxic to,” Renz said.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a UW-Madison political science professor, said Walker’s approval ratings don’t provide as much of a cushion as he’s had in past election cycles, and visiting schools and providing more money for schools might rebuild public support.
Noted: Insight from UW’s Tamara Jeppson, Greg Tripoli and Harold Tobin.
Noted: But take the marshmallow out of the heat, and it’ll deflate — although the stretched out gelatin doesn’t bounce back. “It shrinks to a shriveled mass,” Richard Hartel, a food scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tells The Verge in an email. “Don’t get me started on Peeps jousting.”
The fairly common habit of talking aloud to yourself is what psychologists call external self-talk. And although self-talk is sometimes looked at as just an eccentric quirk, research has found that it can influence behavior and cognition. “The idea is, if you hear a word, does that help you see something?” said Gary Lupyan, a researcher and psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “You’ve got genes and then you’ve got environment and then you’ve got lifestyle and then the interactions between them,” said Dr. Steven Barczi, a geriatric specialist with UW Health.
Noted: Not everyone is ready to accept the claim that the Jebel Irhoud fossils necessarily belong to H. sapiens, however. Paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin–Madison says their modern-looking traits might not actually reflect a connection to our species.
Quoted: At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, economics professor Noah Williams said Wisconsin’s manufacturing jobs losses would have been steeper without the tax break. “Job growth would have been lower in manufacturing and overall,” the economist said in an email.
Quoted: Can a governor radically change the course of a state’s economy?” asked Steven Deller, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension. “Not really, but they can influence on the margins, or around the corners. As you know, the larger macroeconomy (what is happening to the U.S. economy) is the 800-pound gorilla in the room. But a governor can set the tone of how the state thinks about the business climate.”
While she had tried to get sober before, it wasn’t until her doctors treated her disease in several ways that she began recovering. Her treatment regimen includes enrollment in a methadone program, outpatient care and the use of a new smartphone app called A-CHESS, created by a UW-Madison professor.
Addiction CHESS, or A-CHESS, is designed to aid recovery and prevent relapse for people after they leave treatment for substance-use disorders.
Quoted: “Those schools must provide reasonable accommodations” for students with disabilities, says Julie Mead, a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But they do not have to alter their existing programs or add anything to them. What that means is, if their existing program does not provide any special education or related services, then they don’t have to provide any.”
Noted: For instance, John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is concerned about the study authors’ claims that the Moroccan fossils belong to the Homo sapiens clade.
Noted: Cara Moravec is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and she uses CRISPR in her research all the time. She found a few anomalies in the study that raised some concerns for her in regards to the interpretations of the findings. She says off-target effects are a known issue with CRISPR but that this study isn’t the best representation of those problems.
Noted: John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the new study, said that it was a plausible idea, but that recent discoveries of fossils from the same era raise the possibility that they were used by other hominins.
Noted: “The idea is, if you hear a word, does that help you see something?” said Gary Lupyan, a researcher and psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “The license holder is held accountable to certain standards of food handling, food sourcing, food holding,” said Monica Theis, senior lecturer for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Food Science. “If those steps to enforce that are no longer part of the process, then there’s a risk there that people could get sick.”
Quoted: The hope is for those 150 cuttings to sprout into hearty trees in the next few years so they can be replanted elsewhere on the property, said Curt Meine, adjunct associate professor in University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Forest and Wildlife Ecology Department.
Quoted: “It’s a great idea,” said Alan Sorensen, an economist at the University of Wisconsin who has studied drug prices. Referring to doctors, he added that “even a small moving of the needle on their prescribing behavior can have a pretty big impact on costs.”
Noted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, are guests on WHA radio (970 AM) at 11:45 a.m. the last Monday of each month.
Quoted: There are options on the market for weed killers that have less of a negative impact, but there aren’t any products that have zero risk to the environment, UW-Madison professor Paul Koch said.
Noted: Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD, FAAP, is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and also holds master’s degrees in public health and children’s librarianship. Engaged in primary care pediatrics, early literacy, medical education, and advocacy, he covers a variety of topics related to the health and well-being of children and families.
Quoted: If this activation is prolonged, it could “trigger a chain of events” that leads to cellular degeneration, which is related to cognitive impairment, say neuroscientist Chiara Cirelli, who led the research. Sleep is “very, very important” to normalize the functions of the brain’s synapses, she said. “I don’t think we know of any cognition function that isn’t affected by sleep deprivation,” added Cirelli, a physician who directs the Wisconsin Center for Sleep and Consciousness and is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s medical school.
Quoted: Susan Nitzke, professor emerita in nutritional sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says most people know the benefits of healthy eating and “if they have kids, they know the importance of being a good role model.”
Quoted: Further, the continuing weakness across much of brick-and-mortar retail could mean lower real estate costs for firms that are doing well enough to expand, Hart Posen, a business professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said by email.
In a controversial decision that sparked national protests, President Donald Trump officially withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord Wednesday. The decision comes months after working to dismantle multiple Obama administration climate change efforts including the Clean Power Plan and other EPA regulations on coal and oil.
“It’s a huge mistake for the United States to pull out of the Paris agreement for lots of reasons,” says Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For 15 years, Patz served as a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and has been leading research on the links between health and climate change for more than two decades.
Noted; “I don’t think anonymization will work, but it’s the first thing that people think of,” says Molly Carnes, a professor of geriatrics and director of the Center for Women’s Health Research at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Carnes leads a team that has poked at the dynamics of peer review by recreating study sections. Among their findings is that ambiguous standards for reviewing grant proposals and comments from other reviewers can influence the panel’s assessment of the proposed research. Those variations could also lead to bias, she says, although the group has not specifically examined racial factors.
Noted: Keeping the system as it is, however, comes with its own set of issues and leaves the problem of student-loan defaults unfixed. Some policy wonks have suggested that a complete switch to automatic enrollment in income-driven repayment plans could lessen defaults, but that is not enough, said Nicholas Hillman, an associate professor of higher education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
Noted: If this activation is prolonged, it could “trigger a chain of events” that leads to cellular degeneration, which is related to cognitive impairment, say neuroscientist Chiara Cirelli, who led the research. Sleep is “very, very important” to normalize the functions of the brain’s synapses, she said.
Noted: Daniel Young has observed insect decline firsthand. The UW-Madison entomologist has been studying a rare lake trout beetle for years. He calls the insect hotel project a marriage between art and science that nature needs right now.
Noted: “Fear of the unknown affects everyone, and this may be particularly true for pregnant women,” said Larissa Duncan, lead researcher in the study and an associate professor of human development and family studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Increasing the penalty for not having insurance and increasing the subsidies to offset the costs of insurance could bring more people into the market and help spread that risk, said Justin Sydnor, a professor of risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: On Earth, that amount of time is somewhere between thousands and millions of years, according to anthropologist John Hawks, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “We are seeing a pattern now that the recession is over, the large-core metro counties are starting to lose population again,” said David Egan-Robertson, a demographer with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Applied Population Lab. “And that’s true around the country.”
Quoted: “It is the main source for pulling so many things together,” Jim Hurley, director of the UW-Madison Sea Grant Institute, said of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which accounts for most of Trump’s cuts. “Boy, it would be tough to lose that momentum right now.”
Noted: About the same time Machado was watching the monkeys die in Itapina, University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Karen Strier was discovering that a similar tragedy had already played out on a reserve 140 miles to the west.
Quoted: Dan Olszewski, the director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship for the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said failure is common when people go into business for themselves.
BEIJING — Chinese people cheering on their country’s ascent sometimes comfort themselves with the idea that Asia’s other behemoth, India, is years from surpassing China’s population and decades from emerging as a potential economic peer.
