The NIST and University of Maryland have found an iron-based superconductor that operates in the highest known temperature of a material in its class.
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Dr. Kim Michelle Lewis
Dr. Lewis is an National Science Foundation grant winner ($575,000) to advance electronics used in medicine and toxic sensing technology (important in a post 9-11 world). She graduated from Dillard University, and holds a summer research camp open to HBCU science and engineering majors hoping to learn and advance in the field.
Nikola Tesla pretty much predicted the modern-day cell phone before its Star Trek communicator clone:
How can we speak of science and our scientist without George Washington Carver:
This is a device that operates in the extreme ultraviolet of the electromagnetic spectrum. I've included a chart for reference.
Dr. Delfyett is the past president of the National Society of Black Physicists. He's authored and published several papers in laser research. He is a professor at the University of Central Florida, Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL). I think he had some say in the naming!
In our image: by 2050, it is projected that the "Roomba," or domestic robots may have a different attitude...
Meet Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. Previously posted as "Strong Force."
A US researcher finds perfect quasicrystal patterns...in Islamic architecture. Ecclesiastes said: "there is no [new] thing under the sun."
Gunbad-I Kabud tomb tower, Maragh
She gave us a reason to love ourselves,
Emerging in the 80s post-Civil Rights, post-loss of
Medgar, Malcolm and Martin, if Michael was the “King of Pop”…
She was definitely “Our Queen.”
What 1980 male college freshman
Didn’t calculate that we were just
One year older than the voice that
Belted from her lithe frame, fantasize
“What we’d do” with 5 minutes of our
Best Mack if we had a chance
(Past her Bodyguard) to step to her,
As if she was “saving all her love for []”…
Her faux feud with Maria Cary set the
Diva pattern for Rihanna, Beyoncé, Jennifer, Latifah and Eve…
Yet, didn’t we laugh (instead of pray)
When she married Bobby, and starred in a
So-called “reality” show, showcasing her
Private demons for public display?
Post-Bobby, with the baby (Bobby-Christina),
She could never hit “the notes” she used to,
Her interviews shaken versions of
Her star’s former hue.
The human voice has depth and range
That cannot be enhanced or explained
In a digital software mix program or
Corporate studio...
Some things of exquisite beauty are
Born in choir robes, Sunday solos and
Christmas shows,
Before the Clive Davis’ discover angels,
Among us,
When NAPHESH kicked first breath
In Eden
And Deity pronounced self-awareness
To a creation with mind, will, imagination,
Emotion and intellect – defining the
Earthiness that we would call…soul…
The best of Adam’s rib performs now…celestial shows.
Whitney Houston, 1963 – 2012
Born on November 23, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr. entered the University of Chicago to study mathematics at the age of 13. He received his B.S. degree as a Phi Beta Kappa graduate in 1940 at the age of 16, his M.S. degree in 1941 at the age of 17, and his Ph.D. degree in December 1942 at the age of 19. In 1942 he was also a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study. This was the beginning of one of the most exemplary careers of scholarship and application of an American mathematician/physicist/engineer in the 20th century.
A biological computer made entirely of biological molecules. Another WHODATHUNKIT, and now: who's going to write it?
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson is the youngest Director in the history of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. Like most of us, he had a "price" to pay to get to where he is: he merely "paid the extra social tax." Go to 29:30 of the embed to listen to his remarkable story of perserverence and tenacity.
Does supersolidity exist? It is a quantum state of matter.
"Education was the secular god of the black community"(a quote I remember, but have no sources for it).
"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
"When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions." Carter G. Woodson
Latin for "Not Alone." Apparently, an uprising against Elsevier, a massive online scientific journal. 2,400 academics have refused to publish anything, siting cost mostly. See details at link and link on the blog.
Dr. Mae C. Jemison, MD: not only was she an astronaut, not only a medical doctor, sister studied African and African American Studies. How more down could you be (and smart)?
The Limit as it Approaches...is a term from Calculus, that describes essentially the definition of a derivative. Sadly, it is how science is now: essentially dominated by white males with females of all cultures and minorities numerically...minorities.
Dr. Elvira Williams is featured on this post.
She believed in me and taught me General Physics II and Electromagnetic Field Theory. This is not my Diaspora post, but it is related. More of "other than" have to represent in science and speculative fiction.
"Living well is the best revenge." (George Herbert)
LETTER FROM A FREEDMAN TO HIS OLD MASTER.
[Written just as he dictated it.]
Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865.
To my old Master, Colonel P. H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee.
Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for harboring Rebs they found at your house. I suppose they never heard about your going to Colonel Martin's to kill the Union soldier that was left by his company in their stable. Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt, and am glad you are still living. It would do me good to go back to the dear old home again, and see Miss Mary and Miss Martha and Allen, Esther, Green, and Lee. Give my love to them all, and tell them I hope we will meet in the better world, if not in this. I would have gone back to see you all when I was working in the Nashville Hospital, but one of the neighbors told me that Henry intended to shoot me if he ever got a chance.
The rest of Jourdon Anderson's exquisite reply here.
Some data putting to rest the myth of the young entrepreneur, and that everyone over 35 is washed up (not!):
