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Missing UW student found, minimum wage bill passes in Madison (one of just a handful of cities in the country now with a minimum wage that’s...

The weather leaves much to be desired, BUT the white campanula is really shooting up, and the geranium is forming a thick mat. The ver...

A finding that is worth sitting up for: according to a UC San Diego study (published in Psychological Science), people pick pure-bread dogs...

A few weeks ago, I wrote here that a concerned, well-meaning student come up after class to tell me that calling something a “slam dunker” v...

This is one of those days where I had reason to cross the mile-long State Street that links our campus with the State Capitol (and the court...

Pausing in my review of notes for today’s Family Law class, I take a quick look at CNN.com (to make sure the world hasn’t yet destroyed itse...

A friend-reader reminded me that I should be looking at the sky at dusk because it will be many decades before I will be able to see again t...

A Polish friend (referencing posts from earlier this month) wrote to ask if indeed Madison’s Odana Road, or for that matter, the Humanities ...

They say chance of snow by mid-week, but it can hardly matter. The honeysuckle has sprouted big leaves, the bleeding heart bushes are at lea...

Earlier (last month?) I had blogged about the inherent dangers in crossing a street in China (to say nothing of navigating it by car). The s...

I often complain that our local paper has no inherent value to it. In fact, I don’t only complain, I ACT (I cancelled a subscription to the ...

Gerard Depardieu the French actor-turned-restaurateur can do it (see photo). In the Times article ( here ) about his new Paris restaurant,...

I am thinking, of course, of the president-elect of the Wisconsin State Bar (interview with her here ), Michelle Behnke. A young Madison-bas...

The grass outside is magnificently green and the helleborus orientalis is blooming its big puffy white-pink-green blooms! The rabbits are ...

The NYTimes Magazine’s interview with the former UN inspector Hans Blix comes at a bad moment for Bush given the current Clarke controversy....

(don’t bother with this post if you aren’t interested in Eternal Sunshine) A number of UW Madison bloggers whose blogs I track ( here , ...

Q: On what grounds might German violinists (from the Beethoven Orchestra—this is a hint of sorts; think: many complicated measures) sue for ...

I read the NYT article ( here ) on Dr. Edelman’s work on the brain twice, because I wasn’t sure I was picking up the pieces in a coherent wa...

Yesterday I had a chance to spend time with a visiting professor – someone whom I hadn’t seen since graduate school in the 70s. This man had...

Almost my entire political self is focused on my homeland today. With news of the resignation of the Prime Minister, Leszek Miller (I was ri...