Is the evening sky doomed? As we grow accustomed to light pollution, we become less aware of what we are missing. Dr. Kelsey Johnson, an astrophysicist, writes about the growing global amount of artificial light at night. Even though I …
Cecilia Payne made a long and lonely journey from her childhood in England to prominence in a scientific community that begrudged a place to women. She began her scientific career with a scholarship to Cambridge University, where she took the …
Cecilia Payne – paying tribute to a female physicist Read more »
Beauty and Brains I discovered these facts several years ago, as part of research on my WWII site, VI Corps Combat Engineers. Happy to share the facts about Hedy. US Patent No. 2,292,387 Inducted in 2014 Born November 9, 1914 …
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I have been so busy these past few weeks, that I failed to acknowledge the passing of one of my heroes, Chris Kraft, the first flight director for NASA, and the creator of the concept of Mission Control. He was …
You’ve probably heard people say (and maybe you are one of them), “The space program is a waste of money…” Well, I’m always one to jump in and say, “Take a look around your house, your job, the world. What …
Interesting ideas. Still a strange, bizarre phenomena! Has the Mystery of Ball Lightning Been Explained?
