by Robert Lange | Nov 18, 2013 | Magazine Article
Water defines life in Wisconsin. Our landscape, history, cultures, communities, ecosystems, and economy are fundamentally shaped by water. With the Great Lakes on Wisconsin’s eastern and northern borders, the Mississippi River to the west, and a vast network of...
by Terri Schlichenmeyer | Nov 18, 2013 | Magazine Article
The bar was all of an inch in diameter, but it was the perfect size. You only needed to grab it and hang on. It could hold your weight as you swung hand-over-hand, hung upside down, and performed monkeyshines on the monkey bars. Many of us will remember doing this...
by Susan Day | Nov 18, 2013 | Magazine Article
Georgia Quillian’s family seems to cope well enough with its quirks. Three-year-old Frankie inexplicably stopped talking after he turned two. Her husband Graham suffers from parasomnia, which presents itself as nocturnal roamings. A disturbing and embarrassingly...
by Roland Berns, Kate Bausch | Nov 15, 2013 | Magazine Article
The historian Barbara Tuchman once noted that dire events are five or ten times more likely than pleasant ones to find their way into history. A writer may sleep through a quiet time, but not through a disaster. In the same way, long after we have forgotten the many...
by Ron Seely | Nov 15, 2013 | Magazine Article
Infectious, deformed proteins called prions, known to cause chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer, can be taken up by plants such as alfalfa, corn, and tomatoes, according to new research from the National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) in Madison. The NWHC’s prion...
by Jane Elder | Nov 15, 2013 | Magazine Article
I’m pleased to share with readers news that the Wisconsin Academy recently completed a strategic plan for the next three to five years. Now, I know that strategic planning is one of those phrases that can put people to sleep or induce the flight response. But a...
