Category: WN@TL Blog

What Can Fruit Flies Teach Us About the Persistence of Memory?; Physical Therapy Management of Osteoarthritis in the Hip and Knee

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Come Explore the Unknown!      By Zoom:  at go.wisc.edu/240r59.   In Person: Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison. 7pm Central   For 16 March 2022       Hi WN@TL Fans,   What a week.  Daylight Saving Time on Sunday, Pi Day on Monday, The Ides of March on Tuesday, St. Patrick’s Day tomorrow, …

The Impact of Salt on Wisconsin’s Freshwaters; What can Fruit Flies Teach Us About the Persistence of Memory?; Physical Therapy Management of Osteoarthritis in the Hip and Knee

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Come Explore the Unknown! By Zoom:  at go.wisc.edu/240r59.   In Person: Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison. 7pm Central   For 9 March 2022      Hi WN@TL Fans,   Salt is ionic and iconic and ironic.  To be the salt of the Earth is to be good to the core, but to salt the …

Fusion Energy, Solar Flares, and Black Holes in the Wisconsin Plasma Physics Lab;The Impact of Salt on Wisconsin’s Freshwaters;What Can Fruit Flies Teach Us About the Persistence of Memory?

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Come Explore the Unknown!      By Zoom:  at go.wisc.edu/240r59.   In Person: Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison. 7pm Central   For 2 March 2022       Hi WN@TL Fans,   March 1 is the optimist’s and the meteorologist’s first day of spring. It is always astonishing when the calendar rolls over to …

Design, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: the Case Study of ‘Hello Loom!’;Fusion Energy, Solar Flares and Black Holes in the Wisconsin Plasma Physics Lab;The Impact of Salt on Wisconsin’s Freshwaters

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Come Explore the Unknown!    By Zoom:  at go.wisc.edu/240r59.   In Person: Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison. 7pm Central For 23 February 2022       Hi WN@TL Fans, My grandmothers roped me in to the fiber crafts.  One taught me to knit with kneedles and showed me that not all purls come from …

Protecting Groundwater from Leaching Soil Contamination;Design, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: the Case Study of ‘Hello Loom!’

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Come Explore the Unknown!      By Zoom:  at go.wisc.edu/240r59.   In Person: Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison. 7pm Central   For 2022.02.16       Hi WN@TL Fans,   If the soil is akin to the thin skin of the Earth, then the groundwater is the land’s lifeblood coursing beneath. In many …

UW Darwin Days:”Discovering the DNA Discovery Center: Collections-Based Research in Evolutionary Biology, Museum Science Communication, and Outreach”;”Protecting Groundwater from Leaching Soil Contamination.”; “Design, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: the Case Study of ‘Hello Loom!’”

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Come Explore the Unknown!      By Zoom:  at go.wisc.edu/240r59.   In Person: Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison. 7pm Central   For 2/9/22    UW–Madison Darwin Days Special Wednesday Nite @ The Lab with Isabel Distefano from the Field Museum in Chicago   Hi WN@TL Fans,   DNA is a lot like an alphabet, I …

Climate Change and Agriculture:Mitigation Strategies for Dairy;Discovering the DNA Discovery Center:Collections-Based Research in Evolutionary Biology, Museum Science Communication, and Outreach;Protecting Groundwater from Leaching Soil Contamination;

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Come Explore the Unknown!      By Zoom:  at go.wisc.edu/240r59.   In Person: Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison. 7pm Central   For 2/2/22             Hi WN@TL Fans, Going back at least as far as the Babcock butterfat test in 1890, or the establishment of Wisconsin’s Dairy Herd Improvement Association,  …

Update on the fast-moving field of electric cars;Climate Change and Agriculture:Mitigation Strategies for Dairy;Discovering the DNA Discovery Center:Collections-Based Research in Evolutionary Biology, Museum Science Communication, and Outreach;

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Come Explore the Unknown!      By Zoom:  at go.wisc.edu/240r59.   In Person: Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison. 7pm Central   For January 26, 2022             Hi WN@TL Fans, The “Historic Madison” Facebook page published a photo the other day of East Wash at the  Capitol Square from about …

Having A Bone to Pick: The Ins & Outs of Reconstructing Dinosaur Anatomy;Update on the fast-moving field of electric cars;Climate Change and Agriculture:Mitigation Strategies for Dairy

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Come Explore the Unknown!      By Zoom:  at go.wisc.edu/240r59.   In Person: Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison. 7pm Central   For January 19, 2022             Hi WN@TL Fans, In my Morphology of Vascular Plants class at UW-Platteville, Professor Dziekanowski spent a few fleeting moments on extinct plants known only from …

Nitrogen & Ammonia:From the Industrial Revolution to a Future Nitrogen Economy;Having a bone to pick: The ins and outs of reconstructing dinosaur anatomy;Electric Vehicles & The Road Ahead

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Come Explore the Unknown!   By Zoom:  at go.wisc.edu/240r59.   In Person: Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison.   For January 12, 2022   Hi WN@TL Fans,   Puzzle me this:  How many ways can humans make electricity? For starters: Rubbing amber (‘electrum’ in Latin).  Walking across a carpet.  Piling layers of copper and …