Year: 2019

Hi WN@TL Fans, The seal of UW-Madison features an eye with rays of light. It’s not clear if the light is emanating from the eye or converging upon it.  Perhaps it is both. The dichotomy goes way …

For May 8, 2019         Hi WN@TL Fans,   We like to say that the Wisconsin Idea is in the UW’s DNA.  The only problem is, it wasn’t that way.  The founding documents …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Hi WN@TL Fans,   My Grandpa Zinnen worked for the Burlington Route, and so I’ve been tuned to the double iron bars since I was a kid.  Railroads run on many things, but one you might not …