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.
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. But Yi Fuxiang, a Chinese scientist based in Wisconsin, boldly challenged that assumption this week in Beijing. He laid out arguments that India may already be more populous than China, a view that has created a controversy about whose numbers to believe in forecasting China’s demographic and economic destiny.
[Spontaneous speech] “is too hard to score,” said neuropsychologist Sterling Johnson, of the University of Wisconsin, who studies brain function in Alzheimer’s disease. “But everyday speech is definitely a way of measuring cognitive decline. If people are noticing [a change in Trump’s language agility], that’s meaningful.”
Quoted: Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the state’s dairy industry has made impressive strides in expanding output since the early 2000s.
Quoted: John Hawks, a visiting professor at Wits University and an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the US, questioned the find on his blog: “Is it going too far to say that this fossil jaw is the earliest hominin?”
Claims that India may already have overtaken China as the world’s most populous nation have sparked consternation among demographers. The claims were made on Monday by Yi Fuxian, a University of Wisconsin-Madison academic who has spent years campaigning against Beijing ’s draconian family-planning laws, and picked up by newspapers in both China and India.
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.
Quoted: “The key to a high-quality [program] is not the activities, but the way the teacher can engage with the children during all the activities and also manage behavior,” says Katherine Magnuson, a professor at the school of social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Tests ask, for instance, how many words beginning with W a patient can think of, and how many breeds of dogs he can name, rather than have patients speak spontaneously. The latter “is too hard to score,” said neuropsychologist Sterling Johnson, of the University of Wisconsin, who studies brain function in Alzheimer’s disease. “But everyday speech is definitely a way of measuring cognitive decline. If people are noticing [a change in Trump’s language agility], that’s meaningful.”
Noted: China’s real population may have been about 1.29 billion last year, 90 million fewer people than the official figure released by the National Bureau of Statistics, Yi Fuxian, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said at a symposium at Peking University on Monday.
Quoted: “The biggest challenge is reducing phosphorus input, and so far there has been no reduction in phosphorus input to Lake Mendota,” says Stephen Carpenter, director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for Limnology, adding that improving Mendota, the top of the Yahara chain, is the key to improving all of the lakes.
Quoted: “Place matters,” as UW-Madison poverty researcher Tim Smeeding puts it in the spring issue of the Stanford center’s magazine. “The poverty-generating effects of place can be reduced by moving poor children to better neighborhoods.”
Noted: Donald Downs, professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at UW-Madison, agreed that while the end goal is good, the bill clearly goes too far, and would not be held up by the courts as currently written. He also said, however, that if universities across the country “don’t get our own house in order, we’re opening the door to this.”
Noted: Splurging can of course be imprudent—but that’s true for everyone. Dan Hausman, philosophy professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, notes that we could all question advertisers’ message that consumption leads to satisfaction.
UW researcher David Gagnon from the Field Day Lab gives us new ways to think about the utility of screen time and how to make the most of it for ourselves and our children.
Noted: This is a common feeling among oncologists, said Dr. Lisa Cadmus-Bertram from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
All hospitals and doctors who were Medicaid-certified could be used by high-risk pool recipients. That included all hospitals in the state and the vast majority of doctors, said Sam Austin, a health policy analyst at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Population Health Institute and the author of a 2013 Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau report on the state’s high-risk pool.
Expensive specialty drugs — such as Sovaldi, a drug for hepatitis C, which can cost $84,000 for a 12-week course of treatment — account for a growing share of pharmacy revenue, UW Health pharmacist Joe Cesarz said at a forum in Madison last month.
Not every medical product is as simple as a flu shot, said Justin Sydnor, who studies health insurance at UW-Madison, but “in general, it is possible for hospitals and clinics to generate itemized bills of their services, and generally the bills they send to the insurance company are broken down into pretty fine categories.”
Noted: “To put that in context, that’s more than three milkweed plants for every man, woman and child in the United States,” said Karen Oberhauser, professor and conservation biologist in the University of Minnesota Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology.
As the first monarchs of the year begin to arrive in Wisconsin, there’s renewed attention on the fate of the species, which has seen a significant population drop in recent decades.”What they’re looking for is good habitat,” said Oberhauser, who is also the incoming director the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. The Milkweed plant is an important part of that habitat, as it’s where monarchs will lay their eggs.
Noted: This is a common feeling among oncologists, said Dr. Lisa Cadmus-Bertram from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Most of them would like their patients to be more active, however they are not physical activity coaches,” said Cadmus-Bertram, who studies the role of physical activity in cancer incidence and survivorship. “They don’t have the training or the expertise to provide that type of support to patients nor do they have the time.”
Catalina Toma is an assistant professor in communication arts at UW and studies online dating. She said the two biggest predictors of online dating users are being single and being an internet user.
Lucas Hnath set out to write a sequel to Ibsen’s famous play, imagining the future of protagonist Nora Helmer. 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, and Toril Moi, an Ibsen scholar at Duke and the author of “Sexual / Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory.”
A UW-Madison endeavor to create spinal tissue from scratch is one step closer to changing how your doctor treats your ailments.
The lab at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery has received a grant from the National Science Foundation that will fund experiments to create spinal tissue in a dish for the next five years.
An ongoing study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds is working to incorporate mindfulness techniques into everyday activities for elementary students.
The Kindness Curriculum helps students focus on their minds and bodies, while also adding elements of kindness and empathy.
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.
In 2009, University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineer Justin Williams oversaw an effort that successfully used a brain-computer interface to send messages from the brain to Twitter.
“It was both a small and a big step,” he told Gizmodo. “Ten years later have we gotten much further? I’m not sure.”
“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.
Quoted: A system for examining and sharing the factors that contributed to an incident with an eye toward prevention is the next step, said Cecelia Klingele, associate professor at the UW law school. “A key feature of a good review system … is the recognition that we have to be focused on helping people prevent future incidents rather than blaming people for past mistakes,” she said.
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.
Interview with Frank Tuerkheimer of University of Wisconsin Law School.
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.
