A community bound into a vast network by radio frequencies, transponder codes, tail numbers, voices, and tracks on Flight Aware. Because “In the air, nobody can see the color of your skin.
This biography of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) was published this year. Nothing specific was said about the pandemic, but the obvious message is that it is time to more broadly understand her role in the adoption of inoculation as a medical technology.
Photography : Views of Los Angeles suburbia taken while out walking. S. Narayanswami 2021...
I bought this book in 1978 and reread it after I finished my bio of Tove. Her father was a sculptor, Viktor Janssen, and her mother, “Ham”, an artist. It is a quick read-about 2 hours-and consists of short vignettes written from a child’s point of view.
I received this book as a birthday gift from my brother in 2017 and read it then.
When I finished my PhD in 1979, my next career step was to do a postdoc. I wanted to go to the Huge Lab in Strasbourg, since it was the most high-profile lab in Europe at the time.
When I was a child, I would frequently be overcome by a feeling of something wonderful just around the corner..
After I finished my PhD, I did a postdoc in Strasbourg, during the years 1980-81.
Writing: After I finished my PhD at the University of St. Andrews, I did a postdoc in Strasbourg. Separately from the daily grind of research, I had unexpectedly received “The Entrée” to Le Conseil de l’Europe through close friends in St. Andrews. As a result of their introductions, I was invited...
A day or two later, on a cold November afternoon, five people were seated around a mahogany library table at the Palais Kaunitz...
Episode #2 A meeting with Lady Clancarty That evening there was to be a reception at the Palais Kaunitz and...
The control room was tense. Techs focused on the monitors in front of them, while, raised on a ramp, the Machine hummed, creating a disturbing optical illusion resembling a tunnel of rotating stars.