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(06/09/22 7:00am)
College and stress are ubiquitous. You'll be hard pressed to find anyone at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who hasn’t felt the crushing weight of stress from life, classes and current events. Mindfulness practices, such as yoga and mediation, are often touted as ways to relieve stress and anxiety.
(04/29/22 11:00am)
On April 4, hundreds of leading scientists published the third and final part of the latest authoritative assessment on the Earth’s changing climate. Taken together, the three parts of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report paint an ominous picture of the accelerating impacts of global heating on humans and nature.
(04/28/22 7:00am)
In the words of Kevin Bachubar, owner of insect agriculture consulting firm Bachubar Consulting, “We’re fucked.”
(04/21/22 7:00am)
It seems unlikely that anything would grow early in the Wisconsin spring, when the temperature is just as likely to be 20 degrees as it is 70. But if there's water, sunlight and access to nutrients … life finds a way.
(04/14/22 7:00am)
In my freshman year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison I, with many other STEM students, struggled through the CHEM 103/104 sequence (if you took 109, I don’t want to hear it). I spent hours and hours balancing equations, calculating pH, free energy and other things that I’ve already forgotten. Lecture, homework, exams, discussion… I dreaded almost every aspect of chemistry, but none so much as lab.
(04/14/22 7:00am)
After a predictably cold and snowy Midwestern winter, there are few days more worth celebrating than the first sunny day of the year. For University of Wisconsin-Madison students especially, the sun emerges as a sign that the end of the semester is near, and with it, brings the promise of afternoons spent with friends at the Memorial Union Terrace, study sessions on picnic blankets on Bascom Hill and long walks along the Lakeshore path.
(04/07/22 7:00am)
On April 4, 2022, NASA’s Hubble Telescope, launched in 1990, detected a Jupiter-like protoplanet, which is otherwise known as a swirling, massive ball of gas and matter thought to eventually become a planet. Dubbed AB Aurigae b due to its location in the Auriga constellation, this protoplanet is located about 531 light years away from the sun. For context, one light year is equivalent to about 9.5 trillion kilometers, which is nearly an incomprehensible distance. Hubble has detected countless celestial bodies situated at a further distance than this, including Earendel, a recently-spotted star some 12.9 billion light years away from the sun. However, what is particularly striking about AB Aurigae b is the potential implications of its discovery for understanding planetary formation.
(04/07/22 7:00am)
In characteristic Wisconsin fashion, spring has sprung, and unsprung, and resprung, and then unsprung again and then re-resprung. Warmer weather is around the corner, and the snow has given way to not-so-gentle rain. The conditions are ideal…and now they are here.
(03/31/22 7:00am)
On Feb. 15, 2022, Assembly Bill 977 was introduced to the Wisconsin State Legislature by nine state representatives, and cosponsored by three state senators. Assembly Bill 977 proposed in the cold legal logic of political change that transgender and nonbinary kids under the age of 18 should be prohibited from any gender transition procedures and gender affirming medical care. Thankfully, this bill was left dead on the legislature floor March 15, but similar bills are on the rise across the country, including Missouri’s SB843, Tennessee's HB2835 and Arizona's HB2608. Gender affirming care, however, is critical for the health and livelihood of transgender youth.
(03/31/22 7:00am)
It seems not a single undergraduate discussion of invasive species can pass without some philosophically-inclined baby biologist pondering aloud, “You know… maybe humans are the invasive species.”
(03/10/22 8:00am)
Let me establish something right off the bat: I do not like parasites. I find them creepy and unsettling; thoughts of bot-flies and ticks haunt my dreams. Despite studying insects, I have staunchly avoided any classes that could put me in contact with something that wants to burrow under my skin. But, even if I would like to social distance from just about all parasites, I have to admit, some of them are kind of cool.
(03/10/22 8:00am)
(02/24/22 8:00am)
On Feb. 15, 2022, it was reported that a woman, an unnamed New Yorker, is now the third person to to potentially be cured of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which can lead to the fatal acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) if left untreated.
(02/24/22 8:00am)
Sex is great. STDs, however … not so much. From itching and scratching to bumps and boils (oh my!) to lifelong illness, sexually transmitted infections can have a host of negative consequences. We don’t want to scare you — like we said, sex is great. We want you to be having great sex (if you want to, obvi), and the first step to that is safety.
(02/10/22 8:00am)
Wetlands are unique, important and beautiful landscapes that often go overlooked and unappreciated. Wisconsin was once home to 10 million acres of wetlands, but in the past 200 years, we’ve destroyed 50% of our wetlands. Three-fourths of Wisconsin's wildlife species rely on wetlands for survival, including a variety of threatened and endangered species such as Hine’s emerald dragonfly, a charismatic little bug with bright green eyes and amber wings.
(01/30/22 6:00am)
I wouldn’t say I’m a pyromaniac, but I identify as a “pyro enthusiast”. I like to be the one to build the bonfire, set off a firework or even just light a piece of paper on fire and watch as it burns away to ash. However, as we know from Avatar: the Last Airbender, fire gets a bad rap. Why is the fire nation the villain? Isn’t it just as natural as water, earth and air?
(01/30/22 12:00pm)
Generally in nutrition education, there is a focus on the macroscopic level: which foods are “good,” which are “bad” and how to build healthy eating habits. For some individuals, however, learning about specific components of food can be beneficial to improving health.
(01/27/22 8:00am)
It’s been nearly two years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, and many of us are – understandably – tired of it. Month after month of restrictions, limitations and the various impacts of COVID have left people exhausted, and often apathetic.
(01/27/22 8:00am)
Over break, many college students utilize their more open-ended schedules to “catch up on sleep.” It’s a common phrase not only on college campuses but everywhere in a society that prioritizes productivity— where packed schedules and running from place to place reign supreme over rest. People boast on social media about hustling and “the grind”, seemingly alluding to the notion that some prosperous future awaits those who work, work, work, with no play.
(12/02/21 2:44am)
The pandemic has dragged on for nearly two years now, and we’ve seen a number of troubling developments, the most recent of which is the detection of a new variant of Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID. Omicron has been designated as a "variant of concern" by the World Health Organization, and the first case in the United States was confirmed on Wednesday.