Sharing Science With Wisconsin
For July 8, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, On the Great Seal of Wisconsin are two workers: a miner and a sailor. Rocks and waters have been of the essence for a long time in the Badger state. Rocks & waters have also been a big deal at the …
For July 1, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, It’s July 1. We straddle the halfway point of 2020, the Year of Ideal Visual Acuity. With jaded eyes, we foresee foggy phantoms of what may lie ahead in the coming six months, while smoke and confusion cloud our vision of the …
For June 24, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Yesterday my daughter Claire (15.6 yrs old) for the first time got behind the wheel with her newly-issued learner’s permit at hand. She started the car, which means she fired up the gas engine. Turning the key activated a circuit …
For June 17, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, We’re more than halfway through June, the month that is always gone too soon. In a few days comes the summer solstice, and then the long slide til December 21stice. It’s been a good few days to be Up North …
For June 10, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, We’re being soaked by the remnants of tropical storm that came ashore just east of New Orleans and flew straight as an arrow due north. It’s a strange year. For another example, today was supposed to be the last …
For June 1, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, It’s the first of June. It’s a pivotal day every year, in at least three ways. First, it’s the first day of meteorological summer. Glorious summer, halcyon season, all the way to the equinox in September and the start of …
For May 30, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Memorial Day was Monday. But for many of us, Memorial Day will also be Saturday, for our earliest memories of the holiday are from the May 30’s in the Fifties or Sixties. I can even recall from my boyhood that …
May 20, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, I once was asked to pinch-hit with but a few hours’ notice to give a speech to a statewide gathering of public health officials. I know only about 5 minutes worth of public health and I was asked to fill 15. …
May 13, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, It was two months ago today that the covid news came out and the campus quickly closed down. Much of the news since then has been grim, and deadly. Today was no exception, except that today also came the happy announcement …
May 4, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Today, Monday, May 4, we mark the 134th anniversary of the Haymarket Affair in Chicago. Tomorrow will be the 134th anniversary of the Bay View Massacre in Milwaukee. None of us have memories of these events. Today we also mark the 50th anniversary of the …