Posted in Opinion on Sep 30th, 2005
[Education, Science]I’m reading my copy of Richard Feynman’s “The Feynman Lectures on Physics” in preparation for taking the physics GRE in November, I came across this passage:
If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain […]
Posted in Opinion on Sep 22nd, 2005
[Moon, NASA, Science, Space]In case you’ve missed it this week, NASA announced some of the details of its return to the moon next decade. Basically, with the ambition of a return to the moon in the year 2018, NASA will commission the construction of several new space vehicles, and modify the shuttle solid rocket […]
Posted in In The News on Sep 20th, 2005
[Career, Gender Roles, Parenting]I came across a really fascinating article in the NYTimes today entitled Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path To Motherhood. If you don’t have a registration to the NYTimes site, the brief synopsis is that interviews and surveys conducted among Harvard and Yale women over the last few decades […]
Posted in In The News on Sep 13th, 2005
[Conservatism, March of the Penguins, Media, Pop Culture]Hot off of the RSS wire comes this little blurb from the NYTimes:
Conservative groups have turned the documentary “March of the Penguins” into an unexpected battle anthem in the culture wars.
I read the article which basically points out that conservative groups, both political and religious, are urging their […]
Posted in Informative Articles on Sep 9th, 2005
[Astronomy, Helix Nebula, Peer Review, Publication]I just finished submitting my first for-publication journal article entitled “The Origin and Physical Properties of Cometary Knots in the Helix Nebula NGC 7293.” I am second author, after my Astronomy Senior Thesis advisor, Dr. Eugene Capriotti. We submitted it to the Astrophysical Journal, one of the more […]
