Science Posts

Sept. 1, 2024

Julian days to Gregorian ways: Britain’s 11-day vanishing act

Hello all -  Happy Sunday!   If you had lived in Great Britain 272 years ago tomorrow, in September 1752, you would have gone to bed on the 2nd and woken up on the 14th. Eleven days would have disappeared, never to be retrieved. How …

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Aug. 11, 2024

Cars, cautionary tales and Bridget Driscoll

Hello all -  Happy Sunday!   This week marks the 116th anniversary of the assembly of the first Ford Model T car in Detroit, Michigan, on 12 August 1908. The Model T was significant as the world’s first mass-produced vehicle. W…

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June 30, 2024

Marie Curie and I are practically related

Hello all -  Happy Sunday!   This week, I read an article about the Marie Curie charity, which does great work in the UK running hospices, i.e. end-of-life care, across the country. But who was she? Marie Curie was born in Warsaw, P…

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