Sharing Science With Wisconsin
For January 17, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, Let me go a little long tonight, please. It’s a tale four centuries in the making. In 1579, Thomas Gresham—financial agent to Henry VIII and to his son Edward VI, and to his daughter Mary I, and to his other daughter Elizabeth I— died. Based on his will and …
For January 10, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, An aria is often the high point of an opera, but malaria is often associated with low-lying land. It’s not just the air that’s bad, it’s the mosquitoes buzzing through it, which like to breed in the still waters of the low land. Mosquitoes don’t bark but their …
For January 3, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, Because I grew up in northwest Illinois not too far from Galena, and because I went to school at UW-Platteville, when I think of mining in Wisconsin I first think of lead and zinc, Henry Dodge and Father Mazzuchelli, Mineral Point and New Diggings. But there’s also iron, the ferrous of …