Tag Archives: Science

Year in Cool – 2012

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Cathy LaGrow

I’ve been MIA here, lately. Turns out, writing a research-heavy historical memoir is massively time-consuming. Who’d have thought? However, there’s no way I’d miss our annual Year in Cool post, because writing this post is more fun than spending a … Continue reading →

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Quiet Time

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Cathy LaGrow

I saw a woman at the park the other day who held forth to a group of her friends, no kidding, for at least an hour solid. I kept looking up from my book, in astonishment – Yep, she’s still talking. … Continue reading →

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Huhns in Space

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Cathy LaGrow

As you may have heard, that intrepid man-about-town Richard Branson has developed a spaceflight program for civilians, Virgin Galactic. Anyone who can cough up $200,000 is now eligible to venture into the great unknown. (The latest person to sign up … Continue reading →

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The Year in Cool

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Cathy LaGrow

I apologize – you’ve been misled. The title of this post is not The Year in Cool; it’s actually (in the spirit of Christmas) The Twelve Days of Physics. But if I’d said that up front, one or two of … Continue reading →

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Emmanuel

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Cathy LaGrow

Last week, I purchased the Blu-ray edition of “Planet Earth.” We’d missed the series when it originally aired in the U.S. because at that time, I was still nursing my firstborn and was such a bleary, exhausted mess, the entire … Continue reading →

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The Mountain

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Cathy LaGrow

On the third Saturday of May, in 1980. a thirty-year-old scientist named David Johnston headed up the gorgeous Toutle River Valley in Washington State, one of the prettiest places on God’s green earth. Johnston, who worked for the United States … Continue reading →

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Objects in the Mirror…

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Cathy LaGrow

It goes far beyond the familiar warning about objects in our rearview mirrors, by now. I hate to tell you this, but all sorts of objects, everywhere, might not be anything like they appear. I’ve been reading a book that … Continue reading →

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A Magnificent Mind

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Cathy LaGrow

It would have been so, so easy to dismiss him as useless. And many did, at first. His father died when the boy was still in the womb, and his grieving mother gave birth to him early. He was a … Continue reading →

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Into the (Not So) Deep

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Cathy LaGrow

Hollywood has a long and fruitful history of making disaster movies that feature large quantities of humans being wiped out by “off-planet” forces: asteroids, solar flares, aliens, and so forth. From Armageddon to Deep Impact to War of the Worlds … Continue reading →

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Japan’s Nuclear Crisis – a Q&A

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Cathy LaGrow

Last night, I read this statement on CNN’s website: “A nation on the brink, Japan is coping with three disasters at the same time: a major earthquake, a sweeping tsunami and a deepening nuclear crisis. Any one of these would … Continue reading →

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