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As I was cleaning out the garage, I ran across this old book. I think it was an English book—now why would I keep an English textbook. Anyway, I noticed the advertisement for Pickett slide rules and remembered that there were two camps for slide rules, just like Mac vs. PC. Pickett’s were […] NIF composite photo by Jackie McBride This is an amazing photo of an amazing facility–the target chamber of the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In late February, all 192 laser beams were fired simultaneously, basically completing the construction of the facility. The pride and sense of accomplishment the engineers and scientists […] I was scanning a few blogs for examples of great communicators and ran across a reference to Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium. The following video was given as an example. I was particularly interested in the description of the asteroid Apophis and its close approach to earth on April […] |
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