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Because of the recent changes in my previous platform, I am discontinuing https://www.physics4thecool.blogspot.com and continuing on WordPress and BSFS. What follows is the post I meant for Blogger. I will miss it. Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, COVI…
Image Credit: New York Times Topics: Civil Rights, Human Rights, John Robert Lewis"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." 2 Timothy 4:7While my time here has now come to an end, I want you to know that in the…
Image Source: NASA.govTopics: Mars, NASA, Space Exploration, Spaceflight After years of anticipation, NASA hopes to launch its latest robotic explorer, Perseverance, to Mars on Thursday, July 30, at 7:50 A.M. EDT. Set to depart Earth atop an Atlas V…
The first quantum phase battery, consisting of an indium arsenide (InAs) nanowire in contact with aluminium superconducting leads. (Courtesy: Andrea Iorio) Topics: Battery, Cooper Pairs, Materials Science, Quantum Mechanics, SuperconductivityResearc…
"Good Trouble"... The Griot Poet, image source Smithsonian Magazine Topics: Civil Rights, International Space Station, John Robert Lewis, NASA, STEMThis will be the first splashdown that's occurred in a while, but particularly during a global pandem…
Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, COVID-19, Existentialism, Human Rights, LGBT RightsWe have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon. Franklin D. RooseveltAt 1 pm eastern, 12 n…
Dr. Peter Delfyett, Jr., National Society of Black Physicists Topics: Diversity, Diversity in Science, Laser, Physics, SemiconductorsDr. Peter Delfyett, former NSBP President and NSBP fellow, is the 2020 winner of the William Streifer Scientific Ach…
Comet NEOWISE over Mount Hood on July 11, 2020. Credit: Kevin Morefield Getty Images Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics, CometsComet NEOWISE has been entertaining space enthusiasts across the Northern Hemisphere. Although its official name is C/2020 F3…
Image Source: Freedom Summer link below Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, COVID-19, Existentialism, Human Rights, PoliticsOn June 21, 1964, three young men disappeared near the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi. Michael (Mickey) Schwerner and James Chan…
MGM/VICTOR TANGERMANN Topics: Biology, Computer Science, DNAWhy cannot we write the entire 24 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica on the head of a pin? Dr. Richard P. Feynman, "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom," said to be the seminal talk th…
A schematic representation of how the surface looks, and how the structure repels water. Courtesy: Aalto University Topics: Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Surface EngineeringA micron-scale “armor” that protects highly water-repellent nanostructu…
This artist’s conception of threshold cryptography shows a lock that can only be opened by three people working together. When the threshold cryptosystem receives a request to process information with a secret key, it initially splits the key into s…
Image Source: What a generational spaceship would actually look like, Rachel Feltman, Popular Science Topics: Evolution, Interstellar Travel, Science Fiction, SpaceflightMrs. Flynt played "telephone" with us, simply lining up the entire fifth grade…
