Category: WN@TL Blog

Winged Sentinels: How Birds Are Coping with Climate Change; Animal Research–Why We Need It & Who it Helps; Pharmacy History in Wisconsin

Explore the Unknown!   For October 6, 2021             Hi WN@TL Fans, Birds, being flighted and far-sighted, seem to be the envy of humans.  Daedalus escaped and Icarus died emulating the feathered ones. Humans with acuity & foresight are dubbed hawk-eyed or eagle-eyed. Travelers-by-land stew in jealousy when we measure distances “as …

In Fairness to Future Generations of Eaters & Drinkers: How Legal Reforms Can Protect Our Culinary Heritage; Winged Sentinels: How Birds Are Coping with Climate Change

Explore the Unknown!    For September 29, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans,   It is late September, the fall harvest season is upon us, and all around us The Land yields. Sixty-one years ago during his Travels With Charley road trip, John Steinbeck barreled across autumnal Wisconsin on his way from Chicago to Sauk Centre MN to pay his respects to …

PFAS in Waters of Wisconsin; How Legal Reforms Can Protect Our Culinary Heritage in the Face of Climate Change; Winged Sentinels–How Birds are Adapting to Climate Change

For September 22, 2021             Hi WN@TL Fans,   My major professor at UW–Madison, plant virologist Robert W. Fulton, was an avid trout angler who tied flies and stalked streams in western Dane County and in the hollers of the Driftless in pursuit of the wiley salmonid.  I asked him once about how he …

PFAS in Waters of Wisconsin

For September 22, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans,  My major professor at UW–Madison, plant virologist Robert W. Fulton, was an avid trout angler who tied flies and stalked streams in western Dane County and in the hollers of the Driftless in pursuit of the wiley salmonid.  I asked him once about how he got permission from …

10th Anniversary of the IceCube Observatory, the World’s Biggest Observatory; PFAS in Waters of Wisconsin; Legal Reforms to Protect Culinary Heritage from Climate Change

Explore the Unknown!    For September 15, 2021             Hi WN@TL Fans,   Had he had them—neutrinos and IceCube, that is—imagine what antipodal pairings Dickens might have carved out with his pen on paper, when in his A Tale of Two Cities mode.  Superlatives flow in extremis.  One of the tiniest particles—barely having any mass—detected …

Making Movies of Molecules: The Emerging Science of Powerful X-ray Lasers; IceCube Turns Ten: Past, Present & Future for the World’s Biggest & Strangest Observatory; PFAS in Waters of Wisconsin

Explore the Unknown!    For September 8, 2021             Hi WN@TL Fans,   A Happy Note:  WN@TL goes hybrid both with zoom and with in-person presentations beginning on September 8 at 7pm CT with a special event at the Discovery Building featuring Uwe Bergmann of Physics.  The Discovery Building is at 330 N. Orchard …

Christina Carlson’s talk is postponed; tonight now is Jonathan Patz on “Building Back Better from COVID-19 and the Climate Crisis”

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Forgetting: What It Is and Why It Helps Us Remember; On The Trails of Malaria and Covid; Making Movies of Molecule: The Emerging Science of Powerful X-ray Lasers

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Barriers to Diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease Among Latinx Individuals; Forgetting: What It Is & Why It Helps Us Remember; On the Trails of Malaria and Covid

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Tracking Insects Across Wisconsin in the Pandemic Year; Barriers to Diagnosing Alzheimer’s Among Latinx Individuals; Forgetting, and Why It Helps Us Remember

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