It's the 28th anniversary of the time the Dead played with Carlos Santana, when he was a guest during a performance in Oakland. It certainly wasn't the first time, and he'd even had the honor of hanging out with Jerry Garcia himself at Woodstock. That sounds so long ago...
Can you believe it's already almost Valentine's Day? There's less than three weeks to gather goodies for our sweethearts, whether they be our friends, partners, loved ones, neighbors or even ourselves! I saw an adorable meme about a boy buying a card for his grandmother and it reminded me of my own. My dad also used to buy his daughters boxes of chocolates along with his wife. I guess that's why I have a more positive view of the holiday than many people do.
Part 3 of 3 Parts (Please read Parts 1 and 2 first)
Ambient office = 66 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 115 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 122 nanosieverts per hour
While it's absolutely outrageous that we haven't yet had an indigenous person serve the nation as Secretary of Interior yet--let alone serve in many other cabinet positions--it is a day to celebrate. Representative Deb Haaland is our first Native American Secretary of Interior and I hope that she's the first example of many roles fulfilled by indigenous people in office soon.
How about a little bit of frog humor for the week? I saw some frog jokes posted on social media earlier in the week and thought it would be fun to swap some! For example, why are frogs so happy? They eat whatever bugs them!
A piece of news has been making waves across the Internet, especially after aliens were pretty much confirmed to be real in 2020. A Harvard astronomer says that a strange object that appeared in 2017 was likely an alien probe!
The European Space Agency (ESA) has partnered with Kayser Italia to offer the Kubik facility on the International Space Station (ISS) to commercial customers. Kayser Italia is a Small Medium Enterprise (SME) private independent aerospace system engineering company.
Sumitomo Forestry is part of the Sumitomo Group of Japan which was founded over four hundred years ago. They have joined with Kyoto University to work on developing wooden materials that are highly resistance to damage from temperatures changes and sunlight found in space. They intend to be the first to build satellites out of wood with a target date of 2023.
Washington State researchers are taking inspiration from the ancient art of origami to create a foldable bladder that can be used to contain rocket fuel at cryogenic temperatures. Graduate student Kjell Westra, engineering professor Jake Leachman and their colleagues at WSU’s Hydrogen Properties for Energy Research Laboratory, or HYPER Lab, describe their research in the journal Cryogenics.
Part 2 of 3 Parts (Please read Part 1 first)
Ambient office = 51 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 109 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 111 nanosieverts per hour
Part 1 of 3 Parts
I have briefly mentioned batteries based on nuclear materials before in this blog. Currently there is a movement to build on past technologies to upgrade existing nuclear battery designs and develop new nuclear batteries.
Fukushima College robot wins top prize for nuclear decommissioning. English.kyodonews.net
Ambient office = 60 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 85 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 82 nanosieverts per hour
Speech: The developing world's right to have nuclear energy world-nucleawr-news.org
Ambient office = 61 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 108 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 106 nanosieverts per hour
