Sharing Science With Wisconsin
July 20, 2020 Science Alliance Updater 51 years ago today two Apollo 11 astronauts set foot on the Moon. July 20 was a Sunday and the date of the annual Schulte Family Reunion in Petrifying Springs Park in Kenosha. The Eagle landed in the mid afternoon but the actual setting foot on the lunar surface didn’t come til later …
Monday, 13 July 2020 The UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater is your weekly news and updates on science outreach events, opportunities, and programs from the UW–Madison Science Alliance. Hi Everyone, Kevin Niemi of WISCIENCE has produced the UW Science Alliance Updater since the fall of 2008 as a way of braiding together our communities of science …
For May 8, 2019 Hi WN@TL Fans, We like to say that the Wisconsin Idea is in the UW’s DNA. The only problem is, it wasn’t that way. The founding documents of the university don’t even mention research, let alone a public service mission reaching beyond the campus. The Morrill Land-grant …
For May 1, 2019 Hi WN@TL Fans, Painter, engineer, architect, inventor and more: Leonardo Da Vinci put the poly in polymath. As far as I know, as a mathematician he left us no equations, but he did bequeath us unequaled images, including astonishing drawings of the human body and illuminating paintings of …
For April 24, 2019 Hi WN@TL Fans, Since I bike to work, most of my driving is spent hauling my kids, ages14 and 11, around town to swim practice and hockey or soccer practice. Plus to the meets or games. As is the parlance, I am a Daddy Uber. D’Uber for …
For April 17, 2019 Hi WN@TL Fans, Last week’s photo of a black hole required a sustained stare by 8 different telescopes at 8 different locations across the globe focussed on a single point a bazillion miles away. This is a many-eyed approach of Argus. Then the petabytes of data had to be crunched and …
For April 10, 2019 Hi WN@TL Fans, The first house I ever owned was on an old farmstead on McGirr Road in DeKalb County in Illinois. The constellation of run-down buildings included a barn, a corn crib, a hog shed, and a machine shed. There was one more …
For April 3, 2019 Hi WN@TL Fans, As a longtime subscriber to National Geographic (or rather, as a member of the National Geographic Society, I beg your pardon), nothing is more exhilarating than unfolding a brand new map. Nothing, perhaps, except unfolding a really old map. Maps chart …
Hi WN@TL Fans, My Grandpa Zinnen worked for the Burlington Route, and so I’ve been tuned to the double iron bars since I was a kid. Railroads run on many things, but one you might not want to overlook is the ballast under the rails and between the ties. We think of trains as running on iron or …
For March 20, 2019 (Two Weeks Until the 17th Annual UW Science Expeditions April 5-7) Hi WN@TL Fans, A few weeks ago one of my flat-nosed steel shovels went missing. It was one of those ergonomic jobs with a curved plastic handle. Great for spading through the chunky snow the city plow leaves …