Topics: Diversity, Diversity in Science, STEM, Women in Science "Diversity is our strength, unity is our power." Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi U.S. innovation has long drawn inspiration from a mix of scientific disciplines, academic institution…
Image source: link [1] below Topics: Civics, NASA, Space Exploration, Star Trek, STEMThe first time I ran into the notion of the moon landing being "faked," a young coworker showed me a grainy amateurish video on YouTube. I encountered it with a co-…
View of cantilever on an atomic force microscope (magnification 1000x).Credit: SecretDisc GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 Topics: Atomic Force Microscopy, Nanotechnology, Optics, Scanning Electron MicroscopeCell reproduction, disease detection and semiconductor…
Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Politics Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - Bronx, NY Rep. Ilhan Omar - Somali refugee, naturalized in Minnesota Rep. Ayanna Pressley - Cincinnati, OH Rep. Rashida Tlaib - Detroit, MI Donald Trump - not Queen…
Petty Officer Third Class Robert H. Goodwin, WWII veteranTopics: Nanofluidics, Nanotechnology, Research, STEM, ThesisI passed my Thesis defense in Monday. I have a Masters in Nanoengineering.After many weeks of running experiments, parsing data and…
The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Roger Ebert 1988 review Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Politics"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present…
Credit: Shutterstock Topics: God Particle, Higgs Boson, Large Hadron Collider, Standard Model, Theoretical Physicsc. 1400, "having power to control fate, from weird (n.), from Old English wyrd "fate, chance, fortune; destiny; the Fates," literally "…
Silicon chips similar to those that would be used in the detection process. Credit: Vanderbilt University/Heidi Hall Topics: Applied Physics, Medical Physics, Nanotechnology, Star Trek The simplest home medical tests might look like a deck of variou…
Physics World: A brief history of timekeepingTopics: Atomic Physics, Laser, NIST, Quantum Mechanics, ResearchBy confining single ions of aluminum and magnesium in an electric trap, cooling them to near absolute zero and probing them with laser beams…
David Lewicki, Twitter Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Existentialism, Human Rights The Power of Positive Thinking is a self-help book by Norman Vincent Peale, originally published in 1952. It makes use of positive case histories and practical instruc…
Two views of galaxy Markarian 1216. The red image on the left shows X-ray observations conducted by NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and the yellowish image on the right is composed of optical observations taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The b…
A transparent human brain by Dr. Ali Ertuerk, Munich, Germany, April 23, 2019. Topics: 3D Printing, Biomedicine, ResearchMUNICH (Reuters) - Researchers in Germany have created transparent human organs using a new technology that could pave the way t…
Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Existentialism, Human Rights “Let me begin where the appointment order begins, and that is interference in the 2016 presidential election,” Mueller said, and he sketched out briefly what his investigation alleged: that…
Murray Gell-Mann won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics.Credit: Santa Fe Institute Topics: Nobel Laureate, Nobel Prize, Particle Physics, Quarks, Standard Model, Theoretical Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics 1969 was awarded to Murray Gell-Mann "for h…
The Meaning of War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, and Ignorance Is Strength in Orwell's "1984", Natalie Franks, PhD, Owlcation Topics: Climate Change, Global Warming, Existentialism, PoliticsNote: Please forgive the midweek rant but...this...is...ins…
