Month: August 2018

For August 29, 2018     Hi WN@TL Fans, In January 1610 Galileo turned his 20x telescope towards Jupiter and discovered  moons in orbit around Jupiter—notably, the moons were not orbiting Earth.  That was a …

For August 22, 2018     Hi WN@TL Fans, In my hometown there’s a street called Artesian Place.  It runs down a hill called Bootlegger’s Knob and meets with River Road that runs parallel to …

For August 15, 2018     Hi WN@TL Fans, Right after  last week’s WN@TL by Dan Young on the Wisconsin Insect Research Collection, I drove over to Monona to visit my friend Ken Smith on the occasion …

For August 8, 2018     Hi WN@TL Fans, In Fall 1977 I took Professor Harold Willis’s course in entomology at UW-Platteville.  It was a lecture/lab class, but Dr. Willis also required each of us …

For August 1, 2018     Hi WN@TL Fans, In February 1994 I moved in to 210 Campbell Street, about four blocks south of the UW campus and three blocks north of Henry Vilas Zoo.  …