Sharing Science With Wisconsin
April 29, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, A word about words. Written words, in particular. One specific word, especially: Text. Text is an ancient four-letter word with a modern renaissance born of the cell phone. ‘Text’ is no longer solely a tome, and it is no longer solely …
April 20, 2020 Please share this update with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, As Don McLean almost sang: “A long, long time ago, I can still remember when the science used to make me smile.” For me, that time was at a teacher training session at a hotel in Washington & hosted by the …
April 14, 2020 Please share this update with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Last night I talked on the phone with Emeritus Prof. Marilyn Tufte of UW-Platteville, who retired last May after 51 years as a professor of microbiology. I mentioned to her my foggy memories of her Immunology class in 1978 in what …
April 6, 2020 Please share this update with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, When it comes to infrastructure, I’m a fan. I grew up in town, but for three years in my 30s I lived in an old farmhouse on McGirr Road in DeKalb County, Illinois. In 1990, when the thunderstorms rolled in from …
For March 31 / April 1, 2020 Please share this update on “The UW Now” series premier 3/31 with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, There’s at least one big simple thing that’s different between the 1918-1919 flu pandemic and the 2019-2020 covid pandemic: We have tests. We have RNA-based tests to detect the coronavirus …
For March 25, 2020 Please share this update with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, In an ordinary year, this Wednesday would be the first of the spring with longer days than nights, and we’d be coming into the building at 6:50 pm as the sun was setting, just barely north of due …
For March 18, 2020 Please share this invitation with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Well, a couple of things have changed since last Wednesday. For example, all events, including Wednesday Nite @ The Lab, on campus have been cancelled. And the Auditorium is locked down and unavailable for streaming talks. …
For March 11, 2020 Please share this invitation with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Being a high school history teacher, my Dad had some unusual books stuck on the shelves at 118 College Avenue in Dixon. Among these was a 12 volume set of the Time-Life History of the …
For March 4, 2020 Please share this invitation with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Alas, I have no Italian roots. Luckily, some splendid English words do. In opera and etymology, sometimes a little Italian suffices. Other times, a little Latin will enliten. Influenza is the original fault in our stars, …
For February 26, 2020 Please share this invitation with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Three of my four grandparents were born in 1898. They turned 62 (my current age) in 1960. By then, my maternal grandparents had 7 grandchildren; my paternals, 16. Part of growing …