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To watch the talk, click on the photo. For December 13, 2017 Hi WN@TL Fans, Coming into biology forty years ago, for me bacteria were bitty things that grew on agar gels in Petri plates …

‘Twas the middle of winter, and the snow-wracked Sconnies rose up and said, “Let there be Happiness!” And lo, the Pineapple was made. And it was good. Then the Sconnies said, “Let there be Great …

It’s a miracle. It’s like a heat wave. Wednesday will be the warmest day all week. Projected temperature at 7 pm: 19 Degrees. Fahrenheit. Above Zero. I’m gonna have to shift my imbibable WN@TL bait …

Hi WN@TL Fans, I’d like to emphasize the special location of the January 22 WN@TL:  the Marquee Theater at Union South. That’s because on January 22 we’ll be co-hosting the Campus Premiere of the new …

How far did you see on your old Farnsworth machine? How fer do you see on your current fernsehen? O Say Can You See The Future of TV? Tonight at 7 pm Bruce Johnson will …

A few of the songs that get a lot of airplay around Christmas are actually just winter songs.  Winter songs are far fewer than songs about summer.  However, right now they are much more apt. …

Tomorrow night we get to hear about the latest chapter in the oldest scientific outreach component of the University:  the UW Geology Museum. Here’s a bit of background on the embryology of the museum (http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~museum/about.html): …

Let’s have a tropical topic to counterattack this stunning cold snap.  Electric eels will do the trick.   Even the genus name gets right to the point:  What’s good for you is good for us–Electrophorus! …

The happy news last week was that UW-Madison in FY 2012 had the third largest R&D budget among all US universities.  The university continues a remarkable record in which it has ranked no less than …

To Wednesday Nite @ The Lab Hi Everyone, Edward Jenner holds an iconic place in the history of the life sciences.  He stands at the confluence–perhaps better, at the common source–of fields as varied as …