For May 1, 2019 Hi WN@TL Fans, Painter, engineer, architect, inventor and more: Leonardo Da Vinci put the poly in polymath. As far as I know, as a mathematician he left us …
Month: April 2019
Can You Live Without A Gasoline Car?
For April 24, 2019 Hi WN@TL Fans, Since I bike to work, most of my driving is spent hauling my kids, ages14 and 11, around town to swim practice and hockey …
The Environmental Fate of Lampricides in Tributaries of the Great Lakes
As you know, WN@TL is always on, unless the chancellor closes the university. That has happened only once on a Wednesday, back on February 2, 2011, when David Gamm was our scheduled speaker. We’re on …
Surveys of the Stars
For April 17, 2019 Hi WN@TL Fans, Last week’s photo of a black hole required a sustained stare by 8 different telescopes at 8 different locations across the globe focussed on a single point …
Private Wells in Wisconsin
For April 10, 2019 Hi WN@TL Fans, The first house I ever owned was on an old farmstead on McGirr Road in DeKalb County in Illinois. The constellation of run-down …
Is the World’s Oldest Map a Map?
For April 3, 2019 Hi WN@TL Fans, As a longtime subscriber to National Geographic (or rather, as a member of the National Geographic Society, I beg your pardon), nothing is …