Sharing Science With Wisconsin
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu For the week of November 6, 2023 The UW–Madison Science Alliance meets Mondays at 10:00 am by Zoom and in person at the Wisconsin Energy Institute, Room 1120, first floor (1552 University Avenue). Our next meeting is Monday, November 6th at 10:00 CT. The Zoom …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Monday, October 30, 2023 Hi Everyone, “Xenos” is a Greek word infused with contradictions: it can mean foreigner or stranger, and it can mean hospitality or guest. The irony reverberates in words like ‘xenophobia’ and in towns named Xenia. Universities, especially public land-grant …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater Monday 23 October 2023 Hi Everyone, Fall on the farm in my mind is foremost harvest time, the days of combining corn and beans, of picking apples and gathering pumpkins. But for a few crops, fall is also planting season. Winter wheat always struck me as an act of faith and of foresight, …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Monday 16 October 2023 Hi Everyone, Today is launch day of the annual Wisconsin Science Festival running October 16-22 with destinations & explorations all over the Badger state. You can find out more at https://www.wisconsinsciencefest.org and see the list of events that are engaging folks in …
Monday 2 October 2023 1. The UW–Madison Science Alliance meets Mondays at 10:00 am by Zoom and in person at the Wisconsin Energy Institute, Room 1120, first floor (1552 University Avenue). Our next meeting is Monday, October 2 at 10:00 CT. The Zoom link for the 2023-2024 meetings of Science Alliance will continue to be: https://zoom.us/my/glbrc.weieducation.vmr?pwd=L2Q0L0g0S3lEd2gyazNscjA1d2JYZz09 The draft …
Hi WN@TL Fans, When the Babcock Dairy Store rolled out its new logo earlier this year, the press release announcing the occasion noted that the logo included icons of three signature dairy products: cheese, ice cream, and milk. For current-day accuracy, it’s spot on: these are key items from the store. But from the point of view …
Hi WN@TL Fans, Aristotle was not hostile to investigations of both Nature and Society. In founding his Lyceum he pioneered the liberal arts university as an enterprise that raised high the idea of original empirical inquiry built on prior scholarship. While many of his works are lost, we have in hand books on philosophy and ethics, on the natural …
Hi WN@TL Fans, I will miss this week’s talk, but I hope you won’t. This was my second trip to Senegal, nearly 20 years after my first one. A score of years enables some piercing perspective on what in my observations are similar and what’s blow-me-out-of-the-water changed. And since this week’s WN@TL topic is energy, …
“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 5 July 2023 Hi WN@TL Fans, How we see our world, how we understand our university, depends in part on the spectrum of the light we can …
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 …