Sharing Science With Wisconsin
For July 31, 2019 Please share with your friends and neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, When I was three and four I had a series of nasty ear aches. As was common at the time, I had my tonsils out. Earregardless, I still came down with …
For July 24, 2019 Please share with your friends and neighbors, especially those interested in stem cells — and muscles. Hi WN@TL Fans, For the plant scientists among us, the use of the word “stem cells” by animal biologists …
For July 17, 2019 Please share with your stellar neighbors & interstellar friends Hi WN@TL Fans, If you are of a certain age (“old” in the Metric system, “olde” in the English), you know right where you were when the Eagle …
For July 10, 2019 Please share with your neighbors & friends Hi WN@TL Fans, It rained on Monday in Washington DC. A lot. As much as four inches in three hours. The capital of our nation experienced an inundation. It …
For July 3, 2019 Please share with your friends & neighbors Hi WN@TL Fans, Saturday night at 9:30 my son Will, 12, and I biked to Shake the Lake. Will does not like crowds, I found out, and after parking …
For June 26, 2019 Please share with your friends & neighbors Hi WN@TL Fans, Twenty years ago at noon on the 4th of July, my brother & his wife, their two children and I launched our two canoes from Kawishiwi …
For June 19, 2019 Please share with your friends & neighbors Hi WN@TL Fans, Extension specialists on occasion get phone calls of urgent requests on short notice. These often result in our finest minutes. My favorite request was an invitation to give a …
For June 12, 2019 Please share with your friends & neighbors Hi WN@TL Fans, We are a dozen days into June, approaching Shakespeare’s Midsummer, and the sun is finishing its long swing towards the solstice. Mythologies are full of stories to …
For June 5, 2019 Hi WN@TL Fans, First, a word from our sponsor. Yesterday, June 3, marked the retirement of my mentor, Professor Marilyn Tufte, after 51 years of teaching, research and service at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, the second-oldest campus of the UW System. UW-P traces its origins to 1866, which means Marilyn has taught there for exactly …
For May 29, 2019 Hi WN@TL Fans, An altar boy who pays attention—and that should be all of them, or else someone will be wringing the wrist bell at the wrong time—can pick up a whiff of the history of heresy by a careful reading of the Creeds. The Apostles’ Creed in its simplicity contrasts …