Science Alliance

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater 1 March 2021     Hi Everyone,   Ah, March 1.  The first day of Meteorological Spring every year.  The Opening Day of Week 2 of the Big Melt this year.  The …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater 22 February 2021     Hi Everyone,   A year from today we’ll be marking the Day of Deuces:  2/22/22.     It seems everything else in in our national crystal ball is …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater 15 February 2021     Hi Everyone,   We have just endured the coldest nights of the winter so far, as low as -18 last Tuesday and -10 on Valentine’s Day.   On the brighter …

  UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater 8 February 2021     Hi Everyone,   Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were both born on February 12, 1809.  In Illinois public school children get a day off for Lincoln’s birthday, but …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater 1 February 2021     Hi Everyone,   As the old saw goes, “We value what we measure, and we measure what we value.”   Every year the National Science Foundation compiles the Higher …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater 24 January 2021 Hi Everyone,   This evening millions of Packer fans in Wisconsin are channeling the angst The Tin Man expressed as Dorothy departed Oz:  “Now I know I have a heart, because it’s …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater 18 January 2021   Hi Everyone,   The sea change for science in public policy continues at the federal level as President-elect Biden announced Eric Lander as his chief science advisor and raised the position for the first time …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater 11 January 2021 Hi Everyone, Starting last Wednesday afternoon we’ve been dealing with both a coup and covid.  As Pat Remington noted with the opening slide of his WN@TL talk on January 6 on “Covid-19: …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater 4 January 2021 Hi Everyone, Happy New Year to all! Two weeks ago many a telescope was pointed towards Jupiter and Saturn for their Great Conjunction.  Some 411 years ago this January 7 Galileo …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater   21 December 2020   Hi Everyone,   What a day, and what an evening, for astronomical delights in the heavens.    Every year we get a winter solstice here (it was 4:02 this …