Sharing Science With Wisconsin
For Wednesday, June 21, 2023 Hi WN@TL Fans, It’s the Summer Solstice, a good day to make like the Sun and stand still for a moment–while the Sun radiates, we reflect. If we circumspect, we see the first few volleys of orange daylilies bursting in the morning and shriveling by the gloaming. Out on …
For Wednesday, June 14, 2023 Hi WN@TL Fans, I apologize for the delay in sending out the WN@TL missive, but happily I just received the good news a few moments ago that the embargo will lift on June 29 on the paper that Jason Vandenbroucke’s team at Wisconsin IceCube will be publishing soon, and therefore …
For Wednesday, June 7, 2023 Hi WN@TL Fans, As I may have mentioned before, in the ag shop at Dixon High School my ag teacher Al Tieken hung a framed copy of the famous color print from Hoard’s Dairyman of “The Foster Mothers of the Human Race.” In my time in high school, I stared at …
For Wednesday, May 24, 2023 Hi WN@TL Fans, We have seen in recent talks how wood can be calendar and clock and ID card for archeologists and anthropologists studying humans & their cultures. Dendrochronology of growth rings gives us a year-by-year uncovering of the trials and tribulations of a tree, and casts light on the …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater Monday 22 May 2023 Coming Up This Week and This Coming Month 1. The UW–Madison Science Alliance meets Mondays at 10:00 am by Zoom. Our next meeting is today, Monday, May 22 by zoom. The Zoom link for the spring meetings of Science Alliance will continue to be: https://zoom.us/my/glbrc.weieducation.vmr?pwd=L2Q0L0g0S3lEd2gyazNscjA1d2JYZz09 The draft agenda for …
Hi WN@TL Fans, The Liberal Arts are under fire in many parts of the United States right now. Luckily, the nine Muses are battle-hardened and they are slow to wither or flee. Long ago I was corrected when I said I was majoring in science and thus I was not in the liberal arts. O …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Monday 8 May 2023 Hi Everyone, This is Finals Week and this weekend is Graduation which, in a stroke of academic humor, is officially called Commencement. I live close to Camp Randall and I can attest that graduation is the happiest weekend every year. …
“Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” Public Science Talks Wednesdays at 7pm CT Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI, or Zoom at https://go.wisc.edu/240r59 or Stream at https://www.youtube.com/@wednesdaynitethelab8948 For Wednesday, May 3, 2023 Hi WN@TL Fans, As our state flag reminds us, we are a maritime people of a land bounded by the Great River and by …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Monday 1 May 2023 Hi Everyone May Day is among our most conflicted holidays: it is one of those days that you can look at in several different ways. For example, to medieval Europeans, May Day actually marked the beginning of summer, …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Monday 24 April 2023 Hi Everyone What a couple of weeks it’s been. Last night the Northern Lights put on an extraordinary show to add to the glow from Science Expeditions two weekends ago, and from Earth Day and Engineering Expo this …