Sharing Science With Wisconsin
Thursday 28 November 2019 Hi Everyone, Again this year my latitude for gratitude is 42.7° N here in North Adams MA. Much is afoot now in the fall of 2019, in these few weeks before we begin 2020, the year of ideal visual acuity. But before the future, first a little background from the past. …
For November 20, 2019 Hi WN@TL Fans, If you go to Niagara Falls on the American Side, you’ll have a chance to see the Rather Large Statue of Nikola Tesla depicted as seated and scanning blueprints of what the folks in New York claim to be the …
For November 13, 2019 Note our Special Location: Grainger Hall, Room 1100,975 University Avenue Part of the “UW Philosophers at Work” public series We will return to Genetics Biotech Center next week, Nov 20. Hi WN@TL Fans, A while back, there in the Garden of Eden, humanity was …
For November 6, 2019 Please share this with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Sometimes, one picture really is worth all those words. Orchids enchant us with the protean range of their shape-shifting flowers. They also baffle botanists trying to parse their pedigrees. This …
For October 30, 2019 Please share this with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, As television production, especially cameras and lighting, became more sophisticated in the late 1950’s and into the 60’s, you-are-there series like Sea Hunt with Lloyd Bridges and documentaries like The Undersea World of Jacques …
For October 23, 2019 Please pass this on to your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Paul Williams, developer of Wisconsin FastPlants, has said on occasion, “With plants, you tend to get what you select for.” What’s true for rapid-cycling cabbages tends to bear out for antibiotics. …
For October 16, 2019 Please share with your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Earth is a blue watery planet, mostly, but the earthen part of Earth is largely covered in a thin skin of soil. So vital is the soil to our connection to our planet that in some contexts the …
For October 9, 2019 Please spread the word to your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, During the Drought of 1988, here in the Midwest our fields of shriveled corn looked akin to pineapple, great rivers shrank, livestock and wildlife suffered, thousands of humans died. And Yellowstone burned. …
For October 2, 2019 Please spread the word to your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, As a fan of the written word, I like that DNA is a lot like an alphabet. The English alphabet has 26 letters that we string into words, words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, …
For September 25, 2019 Please spread the word to your friends & neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, In February 1972 Al Tieken, my ag teacher at Dixon High School, asked me to run a germination test on a half-pound bag of years-old tomato seeds. He showed me how to array a …