Sharing Science With Wisconsin
Come Explore the Unknown! By Zoom: at go.wisc.edu/240r59. In Person: Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison. For January 5, 2022 Hi WN@TL Fans, In the summer between 4th and 5th grade my Grandpa Deutsch let me work with him on his vegetable garden in the …
Come Explore the Unknown! By Zoom: at go.wisc.edu/240r59. In Person: Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison. For December 15, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans, I grew up in Lee County Illinois, a land so flat we called it God’s Own Pool Table, and a place that in the 1830’s and 1840’s …
Come Explore the Unknown! Zoom at go.wisc.edu/240r59. In person: Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison. For December 8, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans, When I first arrived at UW–Madison in early January 1982, the Midwest was locked in a bitter arctic blast, with temperatures scraping down to …
Explore the Unknown! For December 1, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans, As I drove on I-94 to Chicago on Sunday afternoon I noticed a huge sign standing about three feet south of the state line hawking cannabis. The billboards at the border tell a tale of two states: southbound, they’re now selling marijuana; northbound, we’re still …
Explore the Unknown! For November 17, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans, When I was studying botany at UW-Platteville 4.5 decades ago, I first came across several terms or ideas (…is there a difference?) that at the time were short shrifted but since then have grown and blossomed. One was “epigenetics”. It …
Explore the Unknown! For November 10, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans, Since at least the time of the mythical Daedalus, humans have sought to go higher to see farther and more clearly. While Daedalus and Icarus flew to flee more than to see, the exuberant Icarus was among the …
Explore the Unknown! For November 3, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans, While driving my son Will to hockey practice the other day, the flashing yellow pedestrian-crossing lights on Monroe Street at Trader Joe’s sparked us to start chatting about how traffic lights and street markings have changed over my lifetime. Then in the ricochet …
Explore the Unknown! For October 27, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans, A Bomb Cyclone roared ashore the West Coast on Sunday, washing out the California Ironman in Sacramento, drenching Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, and dumping 16 inches of rain on Mount Tamalpais in Marin County. Inland, the level of the Lake Oroville reservoir, which …
Explore the Unknown! For October 20, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans, It’s mid-October, the time when the cornucopia of the gardener, the farmer, and the forager runneth over with the fall harvest. The fruits of the vine and the work of human hands fill our cellars and larders, our wine bottles and canning jars. This plenitude …
Explore the Unknown! For October 13, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans, The use of animals by people at the University of Wisconsin for teaching and research may extend back to 1866 when, as the newly-designated Morrill Land-grant College for Wisconsin, the UW established the University farm in the area west of the President’s House. Seventeen years later, …