Sharing Science With Wisconsin
For July 10, 2019 Please share with your neighbors & friends Hi WN@TL Fans, It rained on Monday in Washington DC. A lot. As much as four inches in three hours. The capital of our nation experienced an inundation. It …
For July 3, 2019 Please share with your friends & neighbors Hi WN@TL Fans, Saturday night at 9:30 my son Will, 12, and I biked to Shake the Lake. Will does not like crowds, I found out, and after parking …
For June 26, 2019 Please share with your friends & neighbors Hi WN@TL Fans, Twenty years ago at noon on the 4th of July, my brother & his wife, their two children and I launched our two canoes from Kawishiwi …
For June 19, 2019 Please share with your friends & neighbors Hi WN@TL Fans, Extension specialists on occasion get phone calls of urgent requests on short notice. These often result in our finest minutes. My favorite request was an invitation to give a …
For June 12, 2019 Please share with your friends & neighbors Hi WN@TL Fans, We are a dozen days into June, approaching Shakespeare’s Midsummer, and the sun is finishing its long swing towards the solstice. Mythologies are full of stories to …
For June 5, 2019 Hi WN@TL Fans, First, a word from our sponsor. Yesterday, June 3, marked the retirement of my mentor, Professor Marilyn Tufte, after 51 years of teaching, research and service at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, the second-oldest campus of the UW System. UW-P traces its origins to 1866, which means Marilyn has taught there for exactly …
For May 29, 2019 Hi WN@TL Fans, An altar boy who pays attention—and that should be all of them, or else someone will be wringing the wrist bell at the wrong time—can pick up a whiff of the history of heresy by a careful reading of the Creeds. The Apostles’ Creed in its simplicity contrasts …
For May 22, 2019 Hi WN@TL Fans, In August 2009 I phoned home from Washington DC to talk with my Dad in Dixon, IL. His voice sounded like he had a frog in his throat, but when I asked him about it, he said he couldn’t clear his throat. He was heading to …
Hi WN@TL Fans, The seal of UW–Madison features an eye with rays of light. It’s not clear if the light is emanating from the eye or converging upon it. Perhaps it is both. The dichotomy goes way back before 1849. Plato postulated in the 4th Century BC that vision worked by rays streaming out from the eye. His student …
For May 8, 2019 Hi WN@TL Fans, We like to say that the Wisconsin Idea is in the UW’s DNA. The only problem is, it wasn’t that way. The founding documents of the university don’t even mention research, let alone a public service mission reaching beyond the campus. The Morrill Land-grant …