Category: WN@TL Blog

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 …

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 …

  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 …

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 …

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 …

Explore the Unknown!    For August 26, 2020          Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors.  Hi WN@TL Fans, Last week Claire, Will & I reached the end of the west-bound leg of our road trip and arrived at Santa Monica Beach.  We then turned northwest and headed into a California …

Explore the Unknown! For August 12, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, On Saturday afternoon my daughter Claire (15) and my son Will (13) trundled into the van and headed out on a road trip.  The general idea is a clockwise tour roughly along the arc of the old …

Explore the Unknown!   For August 5, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans,   Watching on Twitter yesterday the first video of the explosion & shock wave in Beirut immediately transported me back to July 2016 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the Maritime Museum there, and its haunting & harrowing …

Explore the Unknown!   For July 29, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, It is high summer, is it not?  The corn is tall and tasseled, the double harvest of winter wheat is done with the grain in the bin and the Rumpelstiltskin-worthy straw in six-foot biscuits of gold …

Explore the Unknown!   For July 15, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, When I was in high school I worked weekdays 3-6 pm at the Dixon Public Library as an assistant janitor.  Among my routine chores was the weekly dusting of the bookshelves of the current collection on …