WN@TL Blog

For May 1, 2019         Hi WN@TL Fans,   Painter, engineer, architect, inventor and more: Leonardo Da Vinci put the poly in polymath. As far as I know, as a mathematician he left us …

For April 24, 2019         Hi WN@TL Fans,   Since I bike to work, most of my driving is spent hauling my kids, ages14 and 11, around town to swim practice and hockey …

As you know, WN@TL is always on, unless the chancellor closes the university. That has happened only once on a Wednesday, back on February 2, 2011, when David Gamm was our scheduled speaker. We’re on …

For April 17, 2019         Hi WN@TL Fans, Last week’s photo of a black hole required a sustained stare by 8 different telescopes at 8 different locations across the globe focussed on a single point …

For April 10, 2019           Hi WN@TL Fans,   The first house I ever owned was on an old farmstead on McGirr Road in DeKalb County in Illinois. The constellation of run-down …

For April 3, 2019           Hi WN@TL Fans,   As a longtime subscriber to National Geographic (or rather, as a member of the National Geographic Society, I beg your pardon), nothing is …

Hi WN@TL Fans,   My Grandpa Zinnen worked for the Burlington Route, and so I’ve been tuned to the double iron bars since I was a kid.  Railroads run on many things, but one you might not …

Hi WN@TL Fans,   The Scotsman Kenneth Grahame spoke for many a Sconnie when he pointed out that “there is nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”   For some of …

For February 27, 2019 Hi WN@TL Fans,   The seal of the University of Wisconsin-Madison features an eye that is receiving (or perhaps emanating?) an arc of rays of light.    The eye is the organ …

For February 20, 2019          Hi WN@TL Fans,   A few years ago my family and I rode the ferry from Gill’s Rock to Washington Island in Door County.  It was a chilly …