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Asimov image: https://karsh.org/isaac-asimov/ Sagan image: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0755981/ Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Climate Change, Democracy, Existentialism Note: The Nobel Prize will be awarded starting Monday in…
The sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. Keegan Barber/NASA Topics: Asteroids, Astrobiology, Astrophysics, NASA, Space…
Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Democracy, Existentialism, Fascism This essay is derived from a creative work of the same title, posted on my poetry blog Monday. Happy birthday, mom. I miss you. Sixty years ago, you were thirty-eight…
Lurking for decades: researchers have discovered Pines' demon, a collection of electrons in a metal that behaves like a massless wave. It is illustrated here as an artist’s impression. (Courtesy: The Grainger College of Engineering/University of…
The sea floor near Australia’s Casey station in Antarctica has been found to have levels of pollution comparable to those in Rio de Janeiro’s harbor. Credit: Torsten Blackwood/AFP via Getty Topics: Antarctica, Biology, Chemistry, Environment,…
Taken at Bethlehem Community Center by the author, spring 2023© August 30, 2023, the Griot Poet“Too few public pools“There are more than 10 million private swimming pools in the United States, according to a C.D.C. estimate, compared with just…
Source: March on Washington, History dot com editors Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Democracy, Existentialism, Fascism, Human Rights Sixty years ago tomorrow, two dear friends turned a year old, and ten years old. Sixty years ago…
Researchers from the University of Connecticut and colleagues have created a highly durable, lightweight material by structuring DNA and then coating it in glass. The resulting product, characterized by its nanolattice structure, exhibits a unique…
Electric field- and pressure-assisted fast sintering to control graphene alignment in thick composite electrodes for boosting lithium storage performance. Credit: Hongtao Sun, Penn State Topics: Battery, Energy, Graphene, Green Tech, Lithium,…
This map shows global temperature anomalies for July 2023 according to the GISTEMP analysis by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Temperature anomalies reflect how July 2023 compared to the average July temperature from…
The central role of HFIP: a solvent component that solvates POM. a. 1,1,1,3,3,3-Hexafluoro-2-propanol (HFIP): an effective solvent for polyoxymethylene (POM), the clustering of HFIP enabled the decrease of σ*OH energy38. b. Images of an undivided…
Mick Fleetwood's Maui Restaurant destroyed in Maui fire. Allison Rapp, Ultimate Classic RockTopics: Battery, Chemistry, Civics, Civilization, Climate Change, Democracy, Existentialism The Herculoids were a Hanna-Barbara cartoon that only ran for two…
(Credit: DoruqpashA/Shutterstock) Topics: Education, Existentialism, History, Medicine, Nuclear Power 21st-century weather models show how radioactive fallout from atmospheric nuclear tests spread more widely than thought across the US The Trinity…
Topics: Civilization, Climate Change, Democracy, Existentialism, Global Warming In my post on Friday, two weeks ago, I compared the Earth to a plastic or glass bottle in a microwave. Of course, YouTube has an example of someone not taking…
Source: Climate.govTopics: Climate Change, Energy, Existentialism, Global Warming, Green TechNoun: the branch of physical science that deals with the relations between heat and other forms of energy (such as mechanical, electrical, or chemical…
