Sharing Science With Wisconsin
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 or in swirling Erlenmeyer flasks. On plates you could see the colony morphology and you could count the colonies and …
‘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 Happiness!” And the Pina Colada was made. And wow, it was Very Good! On February 5 Tom Givnish of the …
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 from hot chocolate to pina coladas. Speaking of that which goes & flows with rum: on January 29 Eric Carson …
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 movie “Chasing the Ghost Particle” on the research and discoveries of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. Please …
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 give us the lowdown on what’s coming up as he lays out The Past, Present and Future of TV. Philo …
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. “Baby It’s Cold Outside” from 1944 is my nomination for The Winter Song of the Week: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby,_It’s_Cold_Outside Not only does …
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): “At the very first Board of Regents meeting for the establishment of the University of Wisconsin in 1848, one of …
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! (As with the temperatures, this is a new low for the year 2013 on the WN@TL Punometer…) The implications of …
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 5th in the past 30 some years. When I was a grad student here, I had no idea that this …
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 virology and public health, veterinary science and immunology. His work in the 1790’s testing whether intentional infection of humans with …