Category: WN@TL Blog

Imaging Colorful Single Molecules; The Pitfalls of Not Being Scientific About Science Communication; AI & Machine Learning to Speed MIA Identification; Snake Vision

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“Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” Public Science Talks Wednesdays at 7pm CT Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI,  or Zoom at go.wisc.edu/240r59 or Stream at https://www.youtube.com/@wednesdaynitethelab8948   For 1 March 2023 Hi WN@TL Fans, Through the good offices of Sierra Love, a grad student in Genetics with a talent for outreach, I recently had the …

Ants & ANTibiotics; Illuminating Protein Function by Imaging Colorful Single Molecules; The Pitfalls of Not Being Scientific About Science Communication

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“Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” Public Science Talks Wednesdays at 7pm CT Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI,  or Zoom at go.wisc.edu/240r59 or Stream at https://www.youtube.com/@wednesdaynitethelab8948   For 15 February 2023 Hi WN@TL Fans, When my daughter saw the title for this week’s talk on “Ants and ANTibiotics” she asked, “What do ants have …

Darwin Days Special: Finding Other Ancient Minds Across the Human Evolutionary Tree; next week, Preserving Biodiversity for the Future

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“Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” Public Science Talks Wednesdays at 7pm CT Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI,  or Stream by zoom at go.wisc.edu/240r59   For 8 February 2023 Hi WN@TL Fans, Peering inside a person’s skull is one thing, but getting inside a human mind is another, as Billy Crystal can attest, even for …

Coercion and Autonomy in Contemporary Global Family Planning; Special Sunday Edition on Predator Insects; Darwin Days Edition on ‘Finding Other Ancient Minds Across the Human Evolutionary Tree’

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“Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” Public Science Talks Wednesdays at 7pm CT Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI,  or Stream by zoom at go.wisc.edu/240r59   For 1 February 2023 Hi WN@TL Fans, As a gardener I am drawn to the elegance and ambiguity found in some versions of the Eden story, those where …

The Xenos Paradox; Coercion and Autonomy in Contemporary Global Family Planning; Finding Other Ancient Minds Across the Human Evolutionary Tree

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“Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” Public Science Talks Wednesdays at 7pm CT Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI,  or Stream by zoom at go.wisc.edu/240r59   For 25 January 2023 Hi WN@TL Fans, Predictions are hard, the saying goes, especially about the future.  Whether Niels Bohr, Yogi Berra, or Samuel Goldwyn gets the credit for the …

Veterinary Anesthesia: One Health & All Species; Malting Barley Research; The Xenos Paradox

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“Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” Public Science Talks Wednesdays at 7pm CT Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI,  or Stream by zoom at go.wisc.edu/240r59   For 11 January 2023 Hi WN@TL Fans, In the USA, we have around 75 million pet dogs, 58 million pet cats, and 7 million pet tweety birds.  Astonishingly …

DNA Technologies Upcoming for 2023; Veterinary Anesthesiology: One Health and All Species; Malting Barley Research

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“Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” Public Science Talks Wednesdays at 7pm CT Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI,  or Stream by zoom at go.wisc.edu/240r59   For 4 January 2023 Hi WN@TL Fans, I hope you’re still enjoying the best that the New Year season has to offer. In 2023 will see the 70th anniversary …

“What the Heck is X-Ray Astronomy, and Why Do We Bother?” And then we go dark til the New Year.

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“Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” Public Science Talks Wednesdays at 7pm CT Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI,  or Stream by zoom at go.wisc.edu/240r59   For 14 December 2022 Hi WN@TL Fans, The road to this last presentation of the year started back on April 9 when my son Will and I stopped …

Pulling Viruses Out of Thin Air; What the Heck is X-Ray Astronomy, and Why Do We Bother?

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“Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” Public Science Talks Wednesdays at 7pm CT Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI,  or Stream by zoom at go.wisc.edu/240r59   For 7 December 2022 Hi WN@TL Fans, I was astonished when I first learned that a potato slice bent the arc of microbiology.  I could see how a …

Sun Power for Making Electricity Greener & Cheaper; Pulling Viruses Out of Thin Air; What the Heck is X-Ray Astronomy, and Why Do We Bother?

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“Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” Public Science Talks Wednesdays at 7pm CT Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI,  or Stream by zoom at go.wisc.edu/240r59   For 30 November 2022 Hi WN@TL Fans, Not everything in US science traces back to Benjamin Franklin, but much does, especially science done with a sparkle.  Franklin is …