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You are getting sleepy ... very sleepy ... your eyelids are getting heavy ... when I snap my fingers, you will be completely asleep.
Advertising influences us more than we want to admit, warned author Jean Kilbourne, who encouraged students to challenge cultural attitudes that have become unconsciously accepted in the last three decades. Kilbourne addressed a near-capacity crowd Tuesday in the Wisconsin Union Theater as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series.
The death toll from the Dec. 26 tsunami has reached between 160,000 and 230,000 people. As aid workers clean up the devastated areas, they notice something odd-while human corpses are everywhere, animal carcasses are rarely found. This observation has rekindled debates as to whether animals possess an innate sixth sense that enables them to foretell impending natural disasters and flee before the calamity strikes.
As finals loom, students who procrastinated during the semester will be paying the price, burning the midnight oil into the wee hours of the morn. Many of them will stave off sleep with a caffeine source of choice: coffee, tea, soft drinks or caffeine pills. But while caffeine can keep sleep at bay, it can leave you too wired and jittery to study effectively.
To UW-Madison chemistry Professor Bassam Shakhashiri, Christmas is not about presents, trees or eggnog. It is about explosions, toxic chemicals and fire.
Democrats lost the November election the moment John Kerry won the Iowa caucuses in January, nationally syndicated columnist Robert Novak said Wednesday as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series. The self-proclaimed \Prince of Darkness"" said Kerry was doomed because he never took a firm stand against raising taxes.
To the uninitiated, the stock market may seem like a cacophony of jagged line graphs and endless fractions. A stock's price might seem as random as the temperature. But a simple understanding of investment principles makes the market far less intimidating.
In 1984, 22-year-old Jennifer Thompson was in her North Carolina home when she felt a knife at her throat.
Presidents since Ronald Reagan have withheld freedoms from our country's poorest in the name of freedom itself, argued investigative journalist Eric Schlosser Monday as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series. He said the prison culture spawned by the drug war devastates certain racial and economic groups while more serious threats are ignored.
The Aurora Borealis lit up the night sky on Nov. 7, photographed shortly before midnight over James Madison Park, Madison. The sun emits ions which can form a 'solar wind.' If these ions become trapped in Earth's magnetic field, the ions glow in different colors. Aurora displays are common in Madison's latitude, particularly during winter months.
Most people know the Church forced Galileo to recant his \blasphemy"" after he asserted the Earth rotates around the sun, and that John T. Scopes was convicted in 1925 of teaching evolution in a Tennessee classroom.
I end my weekly columns by inviting readers to e-mail me their science questions, and I've gotten some good ones recently: What exactly is gravity and where does it come from? How did they measure the speed of light?
Even though the Boston Red Sox mounted a historic comeback against New York this postseason, bitter Yankees fans still say it will be a cold day in Hell before Boston breaks the Curse of the Bambino. Tonight's World Series Game 4 won't feature frigid temperatures in the underworld, but its backdrop will be a spectacular celestial show that won't be visible in our hemisphere again until 2007.
Everyone knows Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong, will. I'm reminded of this law every time I choose a line at a store and notice the lines on either side of me always seem to move faster than the one I'm in. The question finally struck me: Was there really a Murphy, and what compelled him to lend his name to such a pessimistic axiom?
Since 1901, the Nobel Prize committee has recognized the best in intellectual excellence. Since 1990, the Ig Nobel Prize committee has recognized a less illustrious bunch-researchers whose accomplishments are, shall we say, not quite so distinguished. The 2004 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Sept. 30 at the 14th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony in Boston, Mass.
In every cartoon I've ever watched, when a volcano erupts, it spews out waves of thick orange lava. So when I watch footage of Mount St. Helens nearing eruption again, I'm a little disappointed that all I see is white clouds of steam. Where's all the lava? Where's the wall of flaming-red liquid, destroying everything in its path? It happens in Hawaii-why isn't it happening in Washington?
An apple a day may keep the doctor away, and now a purple carrot a day may keep the cardiologist away. Recent campus research suggests the pigments in naturally occurring purple carrots may decrease the risk of heart disease, without affecting the carrots' taste.
Bascom Hall is undergoing a face-lift, starting with its pillars that have been temporarily replaced with steel girders.
On Aug. 25, astronomers announced the discovery of three planets, the smallest ever seen outside our solar system, between 30 and 50 light years away. That made me wonder: how do astronomers find planets that far away? How do they know the planets they're seeing have never been seen before? Are telescopes so good now that they can espy a ball of rock, light years away? Come to think of it, what do astronomers do anyway -just sit around an observatory in a white lab coat and look through a telescope all night?
Until recently, the only treatment for Alzheimer's disease was a series of drugs that slowed but did not stop the disease's progression. But now two UW-Madison scientists have discovered that a critical protein may prevent the disease from advancing.