Year: 2021

Only A Game Can Save Us

Explore the Unknown!    Check out UW Science Expeditions Open House online April 9-11 at science.wisc.edu/science-expeditions If you’ll be watching for the first time, please register for the WN@TL Zoom at go.wisc.edu/240r59  WN@TL begins at 7:00pm Central For 7 April 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans,    Twice or perhaps thrice or more in my life I have had to …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater – April 5, 2021

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 5 April 2021     Hi Everyone,   I don’t know if it’s a Universal truth, and it may not be true in certain galaxies far far away, but it certainly was true where I grew up:  Hospitality is Reciprocal.  If you want to be invited over to your friends’ place, you in turn …

Marine Raiders on Makin Island; Only a Game Can Save Us; Climate Change Challenges; Vaccine Development

Explore the Unknown! Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors.  If you’ve already registered for a previous WN@TL zoom this year, you’re good—you don’t have to register again. Continue to use the link found in the confirmation message Zoom sent you when you first registered. If you’ll be watching for the first time, …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater – March 29, 2021

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 29 March 2021     Hi Everyone,   It’s almost April and the vision for summer, and some hints for fall, are coming into view for outreach on campus.   Since mid-March 2020, when the campus locked down, we have not been able to welcome the public to events, field-trips or venues on …

The Ethics of Vaccine Allocation; The 1st Battle of Makin Island; The Field Day Lab; A View Ahead for Climate Change

For March 24, 2021 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors.  If you’ve already registered for a previous WN@TL zoom this year, you’re good—you don’t have to register again. Continue to use the link found in the confirmation message Zoom sent you when you first registered. If you’ll be watching for the first …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater – March 22, 2021

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 22 March 2021     Hi Everyone,   Tonight my kids were talking about a YouTube video that pointed out we’re now just as close to 2050 as we are to 1990.  I countered that we’re actually closer to 2050.  My son Will said yes, but the video was made last year.  My …

Environmental Enrichment in Cognitive Aging; The Ethics of Vaccine Allocation; Recovery & ID of Marines Lost during the First Battle of Makin Island

For March 17, 2021 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors.  If you’ve already registered for a previous WN@TL zoom this year, you’re good—you don’t have to register again. If you’ll be watching for the first time, please register for the WN@TL Zoom at go.wisc.edu/240r59  WN@TL begins at 7:00pm Central. If you would like …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater – March 15, 2021

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 15 March 2021     Hi Everyone,   I visited the Forum in Rome in October 2004.  I was ready for the standing pillars, and the fallen ones, the paving stones.  The blue sky astonished, the remarkably unremarkable Curia Julia Senate chamber built by Julius Caesar in 44 BC did not.    While I …

Why Mosquitoes Love *YOU*; The Role of Environmental Enrichment in Cognitive Aging; The Ethics of Vaccine Allocation; The First Battle of Makin Island

For March 10, 2021 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors.  If you’ve already registered for a previous WN@TL zoom this year, you’re good—you don’t have to register again. If you’ll be watching for the first time, please register for the WN@TL Zoom at go.wisc.edu/240r59  WN@TL begins at 7:00pm Central.   Hi WN@TL Fans, My …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater – March 8, 2021

  UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 8 March 2021     Hi Everyone,   We’re at about the one-year mark of the covid hammer coming down.  Some things are looking favorable. In the US, rates of infection and of deaths are heading down.  The speed of vaccinations is heading up.     Other things are disconcerting.  The new …