UFOS
UFOs, the CIA, and the Drake Equation Over the last forty years, the CIA has received thousands of Freedom of Information Act requests in and out of court. The Black … Continue reading UFOS
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WiSW: Professor Verde
Licia Verde is an Italian theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Licia grew up in Venice, and began her undergraduate studies at the University of Padua. She received her PhD from the … Continue reading WiSW: Professor Verde
Dr. Hau
Lene Vestergaard Hau is a Danish professor of physics and applied physics at Harvard University. She has also taught Energy Science at Harvard, the study of nuclear power, batteries, photosynthesis, … Continue reading Dr. Hau
Dunbar’s Number
Dunbar’s number is a proposed cognitive limit on the number of stable social relationships a person can have. These are relationships in which a person not only knows every other … Continue reading Dunbar’s Number
WISW Professor Ma Chung-pei
Ma Chung-pei is a Taiwanese American cosmologist and astrophysicist. She is a professor of Astronomy and Physics at UCLA, Berkeley. Ma was born in Taiwan, and began playing the violin … Continue reading WISW Professor Ma Chung-pei
Preservation
All living organism share a universal behavior set called self preservation. Self preservation is the set of behaviors that ensures the survival of an organism. Think of a deer in … Continue reading Preservation
WiSW: Dr. Tandon
Nina Tandon was raised on Roosevelt Island in New York City. She first became interested in science as a child when she learned her siblings suffered from eye conditions. As … Continue reading WiSW: Dr. Tandon
Mae C. Jemison
Mae Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama, on 17 October 1956. She was the first black woman in space. She is a former NASA Astronaut, an engineer, and a physician. … Continue reading Mae C. Jemison
Exoplanets
An exoplanet is a planet outside of our solar system. Most of them have been discovered to orbit other stars, but there are also rogue planets, which orbit the galactic … Continue reading Exoplanets
Chien-Shiung Wu
Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese-American experimental physicist. Wu was born in 1912 in Taicang, Jiangsu province, China. Her father was a passionate reader and fostered an educational environment of literature … Continue reading Chien-Shiung Wu
Wigner’s Friend
In 1961 Eugene Wigner created a thought experiment in theoretical quantum physics. The idea was developed further by David Deutsch in 1985. The thought experiment is as follows: A friend … Continue reading Wigner’s Friend
Maryam Mirzakhani
Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician and professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Maryam was born in 1977 in Tehran, Iran. As a child she was put into the Iranian … Continue reading Maryam Mirzakhani
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