Liz Jesse

For December 26, 2018         Hi WN@TL Fans,   A reminder:  WN@TL goes dark tonight as we take a break, a respite, a hiatus, a breather.   It’s Peanut Butter & Jelly Time, …

or December 19, 2018         Hi WN@TL Fans,   It’s a long, long way from the 5th Century to the 15th. Entire centuries can stretch between milestone years in western European history: 410, 732, …

For December 12, 2018        Hi WN@TL Fans,   Humans seem to admire bees.  Humans stick bees with multiple analogies.  They are anthropomorphic metaphors, mostly favorable. Bees have queens and workers and drones.  Bees …

For December 5, 2018         Hi WN@TL Fans,   The motorcycle is a surprisingly pervasive player in the movies, music and mindset of America. The movies go back at least to Charlie Chaplin in Mabel at the Wheel in 1914, …

For November 28, 2018         Hi WN@TL Fans,   Mr. Magoo’s superb rendition of Scrooge from 1962 wrecked me for all other versions of Dickens’ most enduring character.  His impact was matched in fearsome factor by …

For November 21, 2018         Hi WN@TL Fans and UW Science Alliance,   WN@TL goes dark tonight.  This afternoon is an apt time for some affirmative appreciation of the good people, places and programs in science …

For November 7, 2018         Hi WN@TL Fans,   Elections have consequences, as the saying goes.  Sometimes, the drivers of elections seem to spiral along in a repeating helix of history.  In 1916 …

For October 31, 2018         Hi WN@TL Fans, I was cued up last week to cite my two favorite trees, the key ones in the Garden of Eden—The Tree of Life and the Tree of …

For October 17, 2018         Hi WN@TL Fans, I first heard of ‘The Wisconsin Idea’ from Prof Jim Holler, my mycology teacher at UW-Platteville, in a conversation with him in Room 303 Boebel Hall …

For October 10, 2018         To paraphrase Ted Sorensen:   Ask not what the flu can do to you, Ask what you can do to fight the flu.   Actually, it’s a good idea …