Year: 2020

For February 26, 2020                 Please share this invitation with your friends & neighbors.    Hi WN@TL Fans, Three of my four grandparents were born in 1898. They turned 62 (my current age) in 1960. By then, my maternal grandparents had 7 grandchildren;  my paternals, 16.     Part of growing …

For February 19, 2020                 Please share this invitation with your friends & neighbors.    Hi WN@TL Fans,   This week we end the 14th year of Wednesday Nite @ The Lab and we start on our 15th.  WN@TL launched on February 22, 2006 with a talk by Veit Bergendahl …

For February 12, 2020                 Please share this invitation with your friends & neighbors.    Hi WN@TL Fans,   Besides Mr. Wallick’s Algebra I class, Intro Biology was my first course at Dixon High School that invoked cool ideas from math: Mendel’s ratios, the topology of chiasmata, the Punnett Square …

For February 5, 2020                 Please share this invitation with your ants & uncles.   Hi WN@TL Fans, Ants and bees both live in colonies, but bees fly mostly in solo sorties.  So it’s the ants on the ground that many a kid has found to be their introduction to …

For January 29, 2020                 Please share this invitation with your friends   Hi WN@TL Fans, While I was a grad student in plant pathology a few new types of plant pathogens popped up:  the spiroplasmas of horseradish, the double-stranded RNA viruses of button mushroom, the viroids of potato, among others. …

For January 22, 2020                     Please share this invitation with your friends   Hi WN@TL Fans,   The the shape of Wisconsin is happily and historically defined largely by waters that bound it:  The St. Louis, St. Croix, Montreal, Brule, Menominee and Mississippi Rivers, and Lakes Michigan and Superior.  …

For January 15, 2020                Please share this with your friends   Hi WN@TL Fans,   From my office desk I can look out over Henry Mall and see the circular window that gave scant sunlight to the attic of the Agricultural Chemistry building where in the fall of 1923 …

For January 8, 2020                Please share this with your friends Hi WN@TL Fans, This time last week my family and I were driving from Jerusalem to the southwestern shore of the Dead Sea. At the turnoff for the Road to Zohar, at about 1100 feet below sea level, we …