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Is the evening sky doomed?

By Marion Posted on August 21, 2019 Posted in STEM

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 …

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Cecilia Payne – paying tribute to a female physicist

By Marion Posted on August 19, 2019 Posted in STEM

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 …

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Senna visits Aunt Laureen

By Marion Posted on August 17, 2019 Posted in My sloths

This week took a two day trip to Plymouth, MI, to see some high school buddies, and of course, Senna and Jimin went on the road with mom. I think that everyone who meets them, falls in love with them. …

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Hedy Lamarr – Frequency Hopping Communication System

By Marion Posted on August 12, 2019 Posted in STEM

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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Wild Adult Sloth Questions

By Marion Posted on August 8, 2019 Posted in My sloths

The following questions posed to the Sloth Conservation Foundation. Earlier this week we offered you the chance to have your sloth questions answered by an expert – here is our first question and answer 👉 Q: In the wild adult …

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In honor of Chris Kraft

By Marion Posted on August 7, 2019 Posted in STEM

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 …

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