Sharing Science With Wisconsin
For September 18, 2019 Please send on to your friends and neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, We spend one-third of our life asleep, if we’re lucky—and if we don’t have a newborn at home. For new parents and older adults, when it comes to being …
For Sept 11, 2019 Please share a copy to your friends and neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Solar photovoltaic panels have been in the national eye at least since 1958 when the US launched the Vanguard I satellite. In 1973 the solar arrays of Skylab were prominent parts of the …
For Sept 4, 2019 Please send a copy to your friends and neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Yesterday, September 1, 2019, was the 80th anniversary of the opening battle of World War 2 in Europe. Today, September 2, is the 74th anniversary of the signing of the Japanese surrender in Tokyo …
For August 28, 2019 Please stream to your friends and neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, We slide towards the end of August, we glide towards the ending of summer. It’s been a wet year, and in Wisconsin the creeks and rivers still flow strong through green coulees and greener …
For August 21, 2019 Please share with your friends and neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, It is mid-August. All is languid. The lakes and beaches beckon, but school looms. Along the town alleys and across the country roads, the crickets and grasshoppers rule by day, and the locusts …
For August 14, 2019 Please share with your friends and neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Microbes—bacteria, fungi, viruses, protists and other tiny critters—are everywhere. They are in the soil, in the water, on the plants, in the rocks and even in the air. They live urbi et orbi. They are …
For August 7, 2019 Please share with your friends and neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, Among my favorite Greek myths are three leading examples of perpetual torture: thirsty Tantalus in his cool pool of water, futile Sisyphus with his rolling stone, and ingenious Prometheus and …
For July 31, 2019 Please share with your friends and neighbors. Hi WN@TL Fans, When I was three and four I had a series of nasty ear aches. As was common at the time, I had my tonsils out. Earregardless, I still came down with …
For July 24, 2019 Please share with your friends and neighbors, especially those interested in stem cells — and muscles. Hi WN@TL Fans, For the plant scientists among us, the use of the word “stem cells” by animal biologists …
For July 17, 2019 Please share with your stellar neighbors & interstellar friends Hi WN@TL Fans, If you are of a certain age (“old” in the Metric system, “olde” in the English), you know right where you were when the Eagle …