by Valerie Mangion | May 12, 2016 | Magazine Article
Night Vision evolved out of my strong desire to learn more about the wild creatures that share the 58-acre farm my husband and I own in the Driftless Region of southwest Wisconsin. I love all animals, and feel sad that we see relatively little of our “farm-mates”...
by Jacqueline Houtman | May 10, 2016 | Magazine Article
Five years ago, the term CRISPR-Cas was familiar to only a handful of microbiologists. Today, thousands of scientists around the world are using this novel gene editing technology to advance research in basic science, medicine, agriculture, and industry. The...
by Meredith Keller | May 10, 2016 | Magazine Article
The e-mail arrived the afternoon before the event: “CISCO system is down at Hotel Le Méridien in Paris. We need to find another telepresence center.” The high-tech video system that was supposed to connect a panel of Wisconsin climate change leaders in Paris for the...
by Don Meyer | May 10, 2016 | Magazine Article
It is happening in River Falls in April and East Troy in September. It’s taking place in Ladysmith in June, and then in Viroqua in July. Prime time is August, when communities as diverse as Mazomanie, Rosholt, and Madison make music of a kind most people would never...
by Shelby Anderson | Apr 29, 2016 | Magazine Article
In 2009, a team of doctors and scientists at the Medical College of Wisconsin shook up the medical community by successfully sequencing a young Wisconsin boy’s DNA in order to identify and treat an unknown, life-threatening disease. That boy’s name is Nic Volker and...
by Karla Huston | Apr 29, 2016 | Magazine Article
“You said I should write more love poems / and I said, I’m sorry, but I’ve been thinking about / sloths.” This is the opening gambit for and no spiders were harmed, Madison poet Steve Tomasko’s debut chapbook. Some may think there are enough love poems; some may...
