by Jacob Turner | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
Does your pet like music? The answer is: Yes. But not your music. Don’t worry. It’s not personal. Our companion animals, domesticated thousands of years ago, are descended from primarily nocturnal predators. Over millions of years they developed an acute sense of...
by Elysse Lindell | Oct 16, 2015 | Magazine Article
Humans have descended from an evolutionary branch that includes divergent species such as Australopithecus africanus, which lived around 3 million years ago, and Homo erectus, which lived around 1.5 million years ago. But the discovery of Homo naledi, a new species...
by Lisa Gaumnitz | Dec 16, 2014 | Magazine Article
Kathy Mehls is a retired high school guidance counselor from Chippewa Falls with an abiding love of birds and the outdoors. Most days, Mehls experiences the sciences vicariously through her daughter Casey, a biologist working to protect endangered species in South...
by Jason Smith | Dec 15, 2014 | Magazine Article
In the quest for a more sustainable—and profitable—glass of milk, many dairy farms in Wisconsin are switching from feedlot-based operations to rotational grazing on prairie grasses and legumes like clover. According to the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade,...
by Darold A. Treffert | Aug 26, 2014 | Magazine Article
On a warm summer night in June of 1980, Leslie Lemke gave a piano concert in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. That concert was my introduction to an extraordinary man and his surprising talent. Leslie’s talent stems from a rare but remarkable condition called savant syndrome...
