Noted: Bas Rokers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says it’s commonly held that motion sickness is caused when your senses provide conflicting information. “Take seasickness: you’re looking at the horizon and the horizon is steady but your balance system tells you that you are moving,” he says.
Religion’s significant role on campus and across the state cannot be underestimated in order to gain a better appreciation for Wisconsin’s culture and climate, according to religious studies professors Corrie Norman, Susan Ridgely and Jordan Rosenblum.
Noted: Katie Krueger uses MobCraft as a business model in the class she teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She plans to add a second part to the class next semester — a warning.
Quoted: Peter Carstensen, professor of law at UW-Madison, said he wasn’t surprised policyholders approved the change, adding that for policyholders it should be business as usual.
Noted: Tom O’Guinn, professor of marketing, appeared on WPR’s Central Time to talk about companies speaking out on political issues and the impact of consumer boycotts.
Quoted: Kathleen Bartzen Culver, the director for the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said some news outlets, including morning network news shows in the United States, seemed to have “suspended skepticism.”
Noted: Political scientist Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told us: “There is no evidence that 300,000 people were turned away in the November 2016 election. We will never know the precise impact of the voter ID law on turnout. It is almost certainly not true that all 300,000 or so people who are registered but lack ID tried to vote this year.”
Noted: Children ages 6 to 10 begin to understand stereotypes about racial groups, said John Diamond, a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He said the project showed the power of education to help students express themselves and learn from other young people in a diverse classroom.
Noted: “Those areas can really provide vital services to our nation’s people and wildlife,” said Tyler Lark, a Ph.D candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, who was not involved with the new report.
Noted: They sometimes packed it into crocks to give to customers as gifts, according to the Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Last year, Anita Mukherjee, an assistant professor of actuarial science at the University of Wisconsin, studied Mississippi’s prison system, and found that people in private prisons received many more “prison conduct violations” than those in government-run ones. This made it harder for them to get parole, and, on average, they served two to three more months of prison time.
Hemant Shah has served as director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism school since 2014, and has been a member of the faculty since 1990. His research focuses on the role of mass media in social change, including the construction of cultural identities and racial anxieties.
Quoted: “Italy has just done something very interesting. After all, Italy is one of the founding nations of the EU but I don’t think it’s mistaken to look at the results of this vote alongside the Brexit vote earlier this year, as well as, frankly, the Trump vote in the United States,” Patrick Rumble, Italian professor at the University of Wisconsin, told Al Jazeera.
Noted: But regulation may be difficult, admits Christine Whelan, a clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin who studies the lucrative self-help industry and now sits on the board of SEEK Safely.
Quoted: “Democrats did better this time in places that were already blue , and did worse in places that were already red,” said Barry Burden, a political-science professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “It sort of is a battle of the many versus the few. You add up those smaller rural places, and they were enough to swamp the bigger urban areas, and even suburban counties.”
Noted: In a given school year, 13 percent of full-time teachers at a typical Wisconsin school district are new employees, said Peter Goff, an assistant professor of education leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “For Oregon to get that just among the people who are automatically registered is quite a feat,” said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of that school’s Elections Research Center.
Quoted: But regulation may be difficult, admits Christine Whelan, a clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin who studies the lucrative self-help industry and now sits on the board of SEEK Safely. “Do we regulate the physical things someone can do at one of these workshops?” Whelan says of the challenges of regulation. “Are we regulating the speech in terms of what advice people can give? And then who is the judge of what is good and bad advice?”
Noted: “I think there are some norms, some unwritten rules on how Washington works and he doesn’t feel obliged to stick with those,” Dr Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, told The Straits Times.
Noted: “Even if something is consistent with Russian government interests, it doesn’t mean the Russian government did it,” said Yoshiko Herrera, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies Russia and former Soviet states.
Christine Whelan, an expert on self-improvement from the University of Wisconsin School of Human Ecology, talks about ways to reduce holiday stress.
Quoted: “We have a program that now costs us $247 million. All at a time when the state of Wisconsin has been one of the biggest public school cutters in the United States,” said Julie Underwood, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law and education professor and voucher critic. “It concerns me that the solution would be to continue to shift resources from public to private, or to shift the bill to the public schools.”
Noted: The Roman historian Tacitus captures the mood. He records the empire from its beginning, in 509 B.C. (which he says was full of glorious heroes) to his time in about 100 B.C. (which he keeps apologizing for). “He’s constantly saying, ‘I’m sorry for telling you about yet more murders that the autocratic emperors have committed against their own subjects, and more rapes, and more sexual perversion, and more records of excessive dining, eating, and, you know, sumptuary practices,’” says Alex Dressler, an assistant professor of classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But Romans before Tacitus said basically the same thing, Dressler says. The more money and power the Romans acquired, the more they felt like their nation was getting indulgent and lazy, and therefore the more they looked backwards to a time before they got what they wanted. The wanting, it seems, mattered more than the having.
Quoted: “This is something that has been on everyone’s radar for a long time,” said Melissa Skala of the University of Wisconsin–Madison who was not involved in the study. “We’ve been developing this technology for some time, and hoping it could fill a niche in the clinic. [This study] exploits specific aspects of this technology.”
Noted: “This was predictable,” says Barry Orton, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It is a small and incremental step towards severing the cord and getting rid of time restraints.”
UW-Madison’s Clifton Conrad cautions that Betsy DeVos’ track record of advocacy for charter schools for elementary and high school students may indicate that President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education will push to privatize public higher education too.
Noted: Political scientist Barry Burden, the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it would be extremely difficult to complete the recount on time. About twice as many votes were cast in the presidential election as the 2011 Supreme Court race.
Noted: If Trump’s plans are carried out, the United States will be picking fights with its top three trading partners — Canada, Mexico and China — said Ian Coxhead, professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a signer of the Trump letter.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Barry Burden said Trump’s position is complicated.
Noted: The Republicans’ counter-argument in the case was that their maps abide by all current rules, said David Canon, the chair of UW-Madison’s political science department, on Capital City Sunday.
Quoted: “The development of the rat [eye and partial face transplant] model, by Kia, is a huge advancement in being able to conduct the complex science needed to successfully transplant a whole eye,” said Rob Nickells, a collaborator with Washington who is a professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at University of Wisconsin. “I would confidently say that given success of the [nerve] questions, she will be the first surgeon to accomplish this feat.”
Noted: Last year, Anita Mukherjee, an assistant professor of actuarial science at the University of Wisconsin, studied Mississippi’s prison system, and found that people in private prisons received many more “prison conduct violations” than those in government-run ones. This made it harder for them to get parole, and, on average, they served two to three more months of prison time.
Noted: UW-Madison Political Science Department Chairman David Canon says Trump greatly expanded margins in counties Republican candidate Mitt Romney won in 2012, and also flipped a chunk of rural counties from the democratic column in 2012, to his column by sizable amounts.
Noted: “Part of what is so challenging, ethically, is that this is a candidate who is not behaving by standing norms,” says Kathleen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “So journalists are trying to figure out what norms apply.”
Quoted: John Hawks, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin—Madison, human evolution expert and co-author of a study which found that 7 percent of human genes have evolved in the recent past (5,000 years), largely in response to environmental change
Noted: UW Health Pediatric Fitness Clinical Nutritionist Nora McCormick joined NBC15’s John Stofflet to share strategies to help us control our calorie intake Thursday.
Noted: Meanwhile, UW-Madison researchers continue to study Zika in rhesus macaque monkeys.Four monkey babies born to mothers infected with Zika during pregnancy had Zika virus in many types of tissue, and their heads may have been slightly smaller than normal, said David O’Connor, a UW-Madison pathology professor.
Noted: The Electoral College has been around for centuries, according to David Canon, political science professor at UW-Madison. He says the nation’s founding fathers set up the system because they didn’t give the electorate much credit.
Noted: David Canon, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, said: “This will go to the supreme court and if it endorses the idea of unlawful gerrymandering it could establish a legal standard that could apply to House districts, not just in Wisconsin.”
Noted: “It does almost exactly what Justice Kennedy said he was looking for back in the ’80s, a clear threshold for deciding what is acceptable,” said Barry C. Burden, the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Markus Brauer, a UW-Madison psychology professor who studies behavior modification comment: ?”‘Prescriptive norms’ tell people what is the right thing to do. And there are many studies suggesting that people’s perceptions of prescriptive norms are heavily influenced by the leadership, in the positive and in the negative direction.”
Noted: Dr Jeri Barak, from the Food Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said: “It would be fair to conclude that if Salmonella is present in salads, it might grow to infectious doses.
Noted: “We have seen a glimpse of the future,” says Tom Eggert, a senior lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the executive director of the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council tells The Christian Science Monitor by phone. “The future is that federal and state governments will not be playing as much of a leadership role in the sustainability space as private corporations.”
Noted: Political scientist Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the Trump margin comes up short in another way. From 1952 to 2012, the winning candidate got an average of 73 percent of the electoral votes, well above Trump’s 57 percent.
Phony news stories are thriving on social media, so much so President Obama addressed it. Interviewed: SJMC’s Lucas Graves
Quoted: “They reverse lower courts sometimes so it’s not out of the ordinary that a court would do this,” said Keith Findley, co-director of the innocence project at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Interviewed: Professor Liad Weiss, Wisconsin School of Business.
Noted: The promise to “Make America Great Again” “appeals to a time when white working-class men had a higher status in society than they do now, and race is in there,” says Katherine Cramer, who has spent the past nine years talking with rural Wisconsin voters for her book, “The Politics of Resentment.”
Quoted: “Airbnb is really feeling this is a huge threat to its business model,” said Andra Ghent, a professor of real estate and land use economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Most Cambodians switch between modern doctors and traditional healers quite fluidly, says Ian Baird, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who researches traditional healing practices in Southeast Asia.
Quoted: “There have been fractured times in America before,” said Kathleen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But I’ve never seen such open disdain for the media, at least in my lifetime.”
“It has had really an impact across the board in retail, both mom and pops as well as the large department stores and pretty much everything in between has been impacted by it,” said Dan Olszewski, Director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Business.
A week after the historical presidential election last week, a Washington Post reporter and Milwaukee radio host joined two UW-Madison professors Tuesday to discuss the ramifications of Donald Trump’s shocking victory.
Quoted: “First let me say it’s very embarrassing, because I spend a lot of my time across the country and they say, aren’t you from Wisconsin?” says Gloria Ladson-Billings, a world-renown education researcher at the University of Wisconsin.
Galen McKinley, an associate professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at UW-Madison, talks about the incredibly warm weather we’ve been having.
Noted: “Cohabitation can benefit from many of the shared attributes of a marriage but it doesn’t have the social stigma of needing the financial readiness to engage in that kind of relationship,” said Fenaba Addo, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied how debt affects young adults’ life choices.
Noted: John DeLamater, a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied the subject of senior relationships, notes that the age group is “rapidly growing” and is expected to double over the next 15 years or so.
Noted: Howard Schweber, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist who specializes in constitutional law, said he doesn’t see any problem with the sessions. The meetings are voluntary and Tittl has taken steps to make sure his staff isn’t forced to attend, Schweber said.
Noted: In fact, the United States is filled with mythical monsters that are feared or revered by locals but remain largely unknown to most of the country. Inspired by the monster party described by Bobby Pickett in his song “Monster Mash,” cartographer Chelsea Nestel, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, mapped the monsters of the United States. She filled each state’s territory with a depiction of its most fearsome or beloved mythical beast.
Noted: “The 7th Circuit would rule on that fairly quickly, whether it be on the substance that the court decision was wrong in some way or maybe that the court didn’t have proper authority to release Brendan at this time,” Associate UW-Madison Law Prof. Adam Stevenson said.
