Sharing Science With Wisconsin
May 4, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Today, Monday, May 4, we mark the 134th anniversary of the Haymarket Affair in Chicago. Tomorrow will be the 134th anniversary of the Bay View Massacre in Milwaukee. None of us have memories of these events. Today we also mark the 50th anniversary of the …
April 29, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, A word about words. Written words, in particular. One specific word, especially: Text. Text is an ancient four-letter word with a modern renaissance born of the cell phone. ‘Text’ is no longer solely a tome, and it is no longer solely …
April 20, 2020 Please share this update with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, As Don McLean almost sang: “A long, long time ago, I can still remember when the science used to make me smile.” For me, that time was at a teacher training session at a hotel in Washington & hosted by the …
April 14, 2020 Please share this update with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Last night I talked on the phone with Emeritus Prof. Marilyn Tufte of UW-Platteville, who retired last May after 51 years as a professor of microbiology. I mentioned to her my foggy memories of her Immunology class in 1978 in what …
April 6, 2020 Please share this update with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, When it comes to infrastructure, I’m a fan. I grew up in town, but for three years in my 30s I lived in an old farmhouse on McGirr Road in DeKalb County, Illinois. In 1990, when the thunderstorms rolled in from …
For March 31 / April 1, 2020 Please share this update on “The UW Now” series premier 3/31 with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, There’s at least one big simple thing that’s different between the 1918-1919 flu pandemic and the 2019-2020 covid pandemic: We have tests. We have RNA-based tests to detect the coronavirus …
For March 25, 2020 Please share this update with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, In an ordinary year, this Wednesday would be the first of the spring with longer days than nights, and we’d be coming into the building at 6:50 pm as the sun was setting, just barely north of due …
For March 18, 2020 Please share this invitation with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Well, a couple of things have changed since last Wednesday. For example, all events, including Wednesday Nite @ The Lab, on campus have been cancelled. And the Auditorium is locked down and unavailable for streaming talks. …
For March 11, 2020 Please share this invitation with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Being a high school history teacher, my Dad had some unusual books stuck on the shelves at 118 College Avenue in Dixon. Among these was a 12 volume set of the Time-Life History of the …
For March 4, 2020 Please share this invitation with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Alas, I have no Italian roots. Luckily, some splendid English words do. In opera and etymology, sometimes a little Italian suffices. Other times, a little Latin will enliten. Influenza is the original fault in our stars, …