WN@TL Blog

For February 28, 2018 Starting our 13th Year Hi WN@TL Fans, I can think of only a few domesticated animals that provide us daily food without slaughter. If the squeal were a meal, we could …

For February 21, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, One of the most impressive scientific outcomes of the Lewis & Clark Expedition was the hand-drawn, hand-annotated map William Clark made in 1810 of part of the continent of North …

For February 14, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, Wow.  Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday on the same day.  Celebrating the carnal on the day after Carnival. Sometimes even the most familiar stuff can surprise you. And what …

For February 7, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, John Muir, our university’s leading light among its pantheon of drop-outs, spent much of his adult life working to save some of our nation’s most splendid places.  Among …

For January 31, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, In my next life, perhaps I’ll come back as an otolaryngologist of cranes.  Between the beak and the neck, I’d have plenty to work with. But there’s more …

For January 24, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, Prometheus gave great gifts to humanity, including fire, hope, and forethought.  His generosity so pissed off Zeus that he had Prometheus chained to a rock. Every day an …

For January 17, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, Let me go a little long tonight, please. It’s a tale four centuries in the making. In 1579, Thomas Gresham—financial agent to Henry VIII and to his son Edward …

For January 10, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, An aria is often the high point of an opera, but malaria is often associated with low-lying land.  It’s not just the air that’s bad, it’s the mosquitoes …

For January 3, 2018   Hi WN@TL Fans, Because I grew up in northwest Illinois not too far from Galena, and because I went to school at UW-Platteville, when I think of mining in Wisconsin …

Farewell, 2017 Hi WN@TL Fans, In the last few minutes of 2017, I’d like to thank all of you for participating in Wednesday Nite @ The Lab and for being an affirmative, appreciate audience to …