Nobel Prize – The Earthian Hivemind

Yes, it’s all true. After 55 years a woman gets the Nobel Prize for Physics.

Steph P. Bianchini October 2, 2018 6 Comments

Donna Strickland, from Canada, was awarded today the Prize for her outstanding contributions in the field of laser physics. In case you wonder, Mrs. Strickland is the third woman EVER to get such honour. Before her, only Marie Curie (1903) and…
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Science & Spooky Bits

laser, Marie Curie, Nobel Prize, Physics, Science, Strickland

2015 Nobel Prize goes to Neutrinos

Steph P. Bianchini October 6, 2015 0 Comments

…. or, to be more precise, to their investigators. As announced today, October 6, on the official webpage, “The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 was awarded jointly to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for the discovery of neutrino oscillations,…
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Astro(physics)

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SF Classics – Shikasta by Doris Lessing

Steph P. Bianchini September 21, 2014 0 Comments

Shikasta (1979) by Doris Lessing is a speculative fiction novel. The book is the first of the series Canopus in Argos, and portraits the final days of our planet. The title is actually the name of a stricken and war-ridden Earth that…
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Sci-Fi Snippets

Canopus, Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize, SF, Shikasta