Sharing Science With Wisconsin
For February 19, 2020 Please share this invitation with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, This week we end the 14th year of Wednesday Nite @ The Lab and we start on our 15th. WN@TL launched on February 22, 2006 with a talk by Veit Bergendahl …
For February 12, 2020 Please share this invitation with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Besides Mr. Wallick’s Algebra I class, Intro Biology was my first course at Dixon High School that invoked cool ideas from math: Mendel’s ratios, the topology of chiasmata, the Punnett Square …
For February 5, 2020 Please share this invitation with your ants & uncles. Hi WN@TL Fans, Ants and bees both live in colonies, but bees fly mostly in solo sorties. So it’s the ants on the ground that many a kid has found to be their introduction to …
For January 29, 2020 Please share this invitation with your friends Hi WN@TL Fans, While I was a grad student in plant pathology a few new types of plant pathogens popped up: the spiroplasmas of horseradish, the double-stranded RNA viruses of button mushroom, the viroids of potato, among others. …
For January 22, 2020 Please share this invitation with your friends Hi WN@TL Fans, The the shape of Wisconsin is happily and historically defined largely by waters that bound it: The St. Louis, St. Croix, Montreal, Brule, Menominee and Mississippi Rivers, and Lakes Michigan and Superior. …
For January 15, 2020 Please share this with your friends Hi WN@TL Fans, From my office desk I can look out over Henry Mall and see the circular window that gave scant sunlight to the attic of the Agricultural Chemistry building where in the fall of 1923 …
For January 8, 2020 Please share this with your friends Hi WN@TL Fans, This time last week my family and I were driving from Jerusalem to the southwestern shore of the Dead Sea. At the turnoff for the Road to Zohar, at about 1100 feet below sea level, we …
For December 18, 2019 Please share this with your friends Hi WN@TL Fans, In the bleak mid-winter, in these the shortest days of the year, our appreciation of the light glows brightest. As it is on land, so it is in the seas. The residents of the shallows & of …
For December 11, 2019 Please share this with your friends Hi WN@TL Fans, We had a sandbox in the early 1960’s in the backyard at 118 College Avenue in Dixon, and about once a year in late spring my Dad would load us up into the 1957 …
For December 4, 2019 Hi WN@TL Fans, Being a gardener by hobby and a plant pathologist by profession, when I first visited Paris in July 1986 I made sure to head to the Latin Quarter, therein to the Place Jussieu, and therein to stroll through the Jardin des Plantes. …