Year: 2019

For December 18, 2019                Please share this with your friends   Hi WN@TL Fans, In the bleak mid-winter, in these the shortest days of the year, our appreciation of the light glows brightest. As it is on land, so it is in the seas. The residents of the shallows & of …

For December 11, 2019                Please share this with your friends   Hi WN@TL Fans,   We had a sandbox in the early 1960’s in the backyard at 118 College Avenue in Dixon, and about once a year in late spring my Dad would load us up into the 1957 …

For December 4, 2019                  Hi WN@TL Fans,   Being a gardener by hobby and a plant pathologist by profession, when I first visited Paris in July 1986 I made sure to head to the Latin Quarter, therein to the Place Jussieu, and therein to stroll through the Jardin des Plantes.   …

Thursday  28 November 2019 Hi Everyone, Again this year my latitude for gratitude is 42.7° N here in North Adams MA.  Much is afoot now in the fall of 2019, in these few weeks before we begin 2020, the year of ideal visual acuity. But before the future, first a little background from the past. …

For November 20, 2019                  Hi WN@TL Fans,   If you go to Niagara Falls on the American Side, you’ll have a chance to see the Rather Large Statue of Nikola Tesla depicted as seated and scanning blueprints of what the folks in New York claim to be the …

For November 13, 2019                  Note our Special Location:   Grainger Hall, Room 1100,975 University Avenue Part of the “UW Philosophers at Work” public series   We will return to Genetics Biotech Center next week, Nov 20.   Hi WN@TL Fans,   A while back, there in the Garden of Eden, humanity was …

For November 6, 2019                Please share this with your friends & neighbors.     Hi WN@TL Fans,   Sometimes, one picture really is worth all those words.   Orchids enchant us with the protean range of their shape-shifting flowers.  They also baffle botanists trying to parse their pedigrees.  This …

For October 30, 2019                Please share this with your friends & neighbors.     Hi WN@TL Fans,   As television production, especially cameras and lighting, became more sophisticated in the late 1950’s and into the 60’s, you-are-there series like Sea Hunt with Lloyd Bridges and documentaries like The Undersea World of Jacques …

For October 23, 2019                Please pass this on to your friends & neighbors.     Hi WN@TL Fans,   Paul Williams, developer of Wisconsin FastPlants, has said on occasion, “With plants, you tend to get what you select for.”    What’s true for rapid-cycling cabbages tends to bear out for antibiotics. …

For October 16, 2019                Please share with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Earth is a blue watery planet, mostly, but the earthen part of Earth is largely covered in a thin skin of soil.   So vital is the soil to our connection to our planet that in some contexts the …