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Science & Technology

The Robots Keep RollingSummer 2020

It’s a bot’s world: in April, as Wisconsin adapted to the Safer at Home order, the UW’s food delivery robots kept running, taking meals from the Gordon Avenue Market to students who remained in the residence halls. Here, a line of the robots waits to cross West Johnson Street.…

Health & Medicine

Listening to Typhoid MaryWinter 2004

Irish immigrant Mary Mallon, seen in a New York hospital bed shortly after she was seized by public health officials in 1907. Bettmann/Corbis

Editor’s note (March 17, 2020): This story was first published in the Winter 2004 issue of On Wisconsin, following the SARS outbreak. We…