Month: October 2018

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 …

For October 17, 2018         Hi WN@TL Fans, I first heard of ‘The Wisconsin Idea’ from Prof Jim Holler, my mycology teacher at UW-Platteville, in a conversation with him in Room 303 Boebel Hall …

For October 10, 2018         To paraphrase Ted Sorensen:   Ask not what the flu can do to you, Ask what you can do to fight the flu.   Actually, it’s a good idea …

For October 3, 2018 I can’t remember when I first heard that along with the Great War which killed some 20 million people came a Great Plague—the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919—that killed an estimated 50 million.  The pandemic was …