For May 2, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, My quick-fire list of model organisms would include E. coli, brewer’s yeast, C. elegans, the fruit fly, the zebrafish, the rat, the mouse, and the monkey. Given more …
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A Library of Stains: Using Multispectral Imaging to Analyze Stains in Medieval Manuscripts
For April 25, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, “It is written” are three of the most momentous words in English. Something powerful, authoritative, and permanent happens when the spoken word is conjured by pen with …
The Environmental Fate of Lampricides in Tributaries of the Great Lakes
For April 18, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, “Cows are people, too,” proclaimed Radar O’Reilly of Iowa, in one of scores of philosophical gambits played on the small screen by the writers of M*A*S*H. If Radar …
Is Tonite’s WN@TL still on? Yes, Yes, like a lamprey stuck to a walleye. See you a 7pm
Hi WN@TL Fans, 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 …
Groundwater, Wetlands, and Geology: The Invisible Links
For April 11, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, Few places are geographically outlined and culturally defined by its freshwater as Wisconsin is by its Great Lakes, its boundary rivers, its inland lakes & streams. Even the etymological …
In the Flame of a Proper Lamp: Glass and Glassblowing in Making Modern Chemistry
For April 4, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, Try to imagine a chemistry lab without glassware. Picture a lab decked out only with porcelain mortars, stone pestles, ceramic jars, copper tubing and stills, iron pots and …
The Opioid Crisis: A Historical Perspective
For March 28, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, When my wife was in the third day of her prodromal labor in delivering our first-born, when the days of pain and the nights of sleeplessness had drained her …
Advanced Analytics for Emergency Response, Bracketology, and Beyond!
For March 21, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, On March 13, two days after the NCAA announced the brackets for the men’s basketball tournament, Tom Oates of the Wisconsin State Journal gave this advice for building a …
Drugs, Books and Patients: Marketing Medieval Medicine
For March 14, 2018 Pi Day Hi WN@TL Fans, Yesterday I enjoyed a stroke of serendipity: the latest survey from the National Science Foundation reported that in 2016 UW-Madison ranked #2 in the number of earned PhD’s …
Early Experiences Elevate Everything: Early Brain and Child Development and the Future of Society
March 7, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, Geographers and cartographers divide the world into northern hemisphere and southern. The dividing line is the unseen equator.Brains are among the few other objects with hemispheres, left and right. The …