Year: 2018

For December 26, 2018         Hi WN@TL Fans,   A reminder:  WN@TL goes dark tonight as we take a break, a respite, a hiatus, a breather.   It’s Peanut Butter & Jelly Time, …

or December 19, 2018         Hi WN@TL Fans,   It’s a long, long way from the 5th Century to the 15th. Entire centuries can stretch between milestone years in western European history: 410, 732, …

For December 12, 2018        Hi WN@TL Fans,   Humans seem to admire bees.  Humans stick bees with multiple analogies.  They are anthropomorphic metaphors, mostly favorable. Bees have queens and workers and drones.  Bees …

For December 5, 2018         Hi WN@TL Fans,   The motorcycle is a surprisingly pervasive player in the movies, music and mindset of America. The movies go back at least to Charlie Chaplin in Mabel at the Wheel in 1914, …

For November 28, 2018         Hi WN@TL Fans,   Mr. Magoo’s superb rendition of Scrooge from 1962 wrecked me for all other versions of Dickens’ most enduring character.  His impact was matched in fearsome factor by …

For November 21, 2018         Hi WN@TL Fans and UW Science Alliance,   WN@TL goes dark tonight.  This afternoon is an apt time for some affirmative appreciation of the good people, places and programs in science …

For November 14, 2018     Hi WN@TL Fans, Well, that was a weekend of astonishing images to commemorate the end of The Great War.  Growing up, I didn’t know much about it. My Grandpa …

For November 7, 2018         Hi WN@TL Fans,   Elections have consequences, as the saying goes.  Sometimes, the drivers of elections seem to spiral along in a repeating helix of history.  In 1916 …

For October 31, 2018         Hi WN@TL Fans, I was cued up last week to cite my two favorite trees, the key ones in the Garden of Eden—The Tree of Life and the Tree of …

For October 24, 2018     Hi WN@TL Fans, Corn is astonishing, corn is astounding, corn is amazing. Corn has separate flowers, male and female, with the golden tassel on top and the silky ear …