BryanW
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An old geezer who lives in the Blue Ridge mountains of central Virginia with momma geezer. Retired ed-tech exec. Humor is my way of protesting the madness of our time. π
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'The legend lives on': Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald still resonates 50 years later
November 10th marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, perhaps the most famous of all the estimated 6,500 ships that have gone down in the Great Lakes.
apnews.com
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Resuming U.S. Nuclear Tests Would Only Help China, One Expert Says
βThe only countries that will really learn more if [U.S. nuclear] testing resumes are Russia and, to a much greater extent, China,β says Jeffrey Lewis, an expert on the geopolitics of nuclear weaponry
www.scientificamerican.com
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Physicist Lise Meitner died on this day in 1968 just before her 90th birthday, having discovered fission, having been excluded from the Nobel Prize for her own discovery, and having paved the way for women in science anyway. This is her remarkable story: www.themarginalian.org/2016/10/27/l...
How Pioneering Physicist Lise Meitner Discovered Nuclear Fission, Paved the Way for Women in Science, and Was Denied the Nobel Prize
βScience makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep joy and awe that the natural order oβ¦
www.themarginalian.org
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