Tag: science

The Evolution of Storm Chasing

  For June 26, 2019                              Please share with your friends & neighbors  Hi WN@TL Fans, Twenty years ago at noon on the 4th of July, my brother & his wife, their two children and I launched our two canoes from Kawishiwi …

How Might Solving the Global Climate Crisis Also Create the Largest Human Health Benefit of the Century?

For June 19, 2019                              Please share with your friends & neighbors  Hi WN@TL Fans, Extension specialists on occasion get phone calls of urgent requests on short notice. These often result in our finest minutes.  My favorite request was an invitation to give a …

Seeing vs. Not Seeing: Investigating Visual Awareness

For June 12, 2019                              Please share with your friends & neighbors  Hi WN@TL Fans, We are a dozen days into June, approaching Shakespeare’s Midsummer, and the sun is finishing its long swing towards the solstice. Mythologies are full of stories to …

Illuminating Better Cancer Treatments with Light

For June 5, 2019     Hi WN@TL Fans, First, a word from our sponsor. Yesterday, June 3, marked the retirement of my mentor, Professor Marilyn Tufte,  after 51 years of teaching, research and service at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, the second-oldest campus of the UW System.  UW-P traces its origins to 1866, which means Marilyn has taught there for exactly …

Transforming Cancer Treatment with Precision Medicine

For May 22, 2019     Hi WN@TL Fans, In August 2009 I phoned home from Washington DC to talk with my Dad in Dixon, IL.  His voice sounded like he had a frog in his throat, but when I asked him about it, he said he couldn’t clear his throat.  He was heading to …