Happy Ada Lovelace Day to all the women out there toiling in the technology sector and the sciences!
Today, I want to write about the second woman to have a element of the periodic table named after her, Lise Meitner. She could arguably be the first woman in her own right to do so, I don’t [...]
Category Archives: science
Ada Lovelace Day 2010
March 24, 2010 – 2:10 pm
Remembering Carl Sagan
December 20, 2006 – 9:42 pm
Today is the Carl Sagan blogathon.
I wanted to add my own short appreciation of his work; Cosmos was one of the first hardback books I bought myself that wasn’t a textbook; The Dragons of Eden was another early addition to my library.
My first scientific love as a child was astronomy; I moved on to chemistry [...]
This gladdens my geeky knitter’s heart
December 15, 2006 – 11:55 am
Kimberly Chapman designed a knitted DNA double helix model.
Edited to fix the link 8/27/06 2240 PST, thanks Katherine!