Sharing Science With Wisconsin
Explore the Unknown! For October 21, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Register for the WN@TL Zoom at https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrce2vrDwtHNBMv0FxIcmw56npNOhu831_ Hi WN@TL Fans, Twenty-five years ago last week the public outreach program I lead at the Biotech Center moved from our old home in the Enzyme Institute at 1710 University …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 19 October 2020 Hi Everyone, Congratulations to the planners, presenters, hosts, audiences, participants and sponsors of the Wisconsin Science Festival Oct 15-18. Seven months since the closure of nearly all science & arts venues, and the cancellation of nearly all in-person events, the statewide Wisconsin Science Festival shifted to a hybrid model that included lots of …
Explore the Unknown! For October 14, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Register for the WN@TL Zoom at https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrce2vrDwtHNBMv0FxIcmw56npNOhu831_ Hi WN@TL Fans, After a lush, wet midsummer and a dust-dry August, the city trees & the country fields & the forest leaves are putting on a show of crimson and gold and …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 12 October 2020 Hi Everyone, Let’s see: where were we, this time last week? What a zoetrope. It was another good week to be attuned to the fine points of sensitivity, specificity, scale, speed, price, logistics, equitable distribution of goods & services, and rates of adoption of innovation in things like antibodies, assays and vaccines. …
Explore the Unknown! For October 7, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Well, it’s been quite a year since last Tuesday. With a lot of stuff heading south (like the height of the noontime sun), I hope the return of WN@TL is a happy example of something bearing …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 5 October 2020 Hi Everyone, Well, that was a memorable year that went by last week. At the start of this week, I’d like to share at least two occasions of note. First, today are marking the happy occasion of the 50th anniversary of PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, which succeeded the National Educational …
Explore the Unknown! September 29, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Now is the Summer of Our Discontent made glorious autumn by this boon of Zoom. Tomorrow night, September 30, at 7:00 pm Central we will prototype the Wednesday Nite @ The Lab by Zoom. Happily, I get to …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater September 28, 2020 Hi Everyone, This Year of Living Languorously continues to slide and sidle into fall and soon into October. The colors hum and vibe. In science outreach, many of us are also hitting our stride and glide as we move ahead with new programs and resume some old favorites. …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater September 21, 2020 Hi Everyone, Today begins the second of two weeks of all online courses at UW–Madison. High rates of covid have driven several other UW System campuses to switch to all online for at least two weeks. The 7-day percent positive rate for students tested on the UW–Madison campus is 6.9 percent as …
Explore the Unknown! September 10, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Apocalyptic fires, historic risings, breathtaking derelictions, and a pox upon our house—or at least a pandemic upon our campus: it has been a maelstrom of a month since mid August. On Wednesday, August …