Sunday, July 5, 2020
Kyle Blasinsky
Units are notoriously important in physics, and the Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) is the quintessential example demonstrating this truth. In 1999, NASA lost contact with the MCO after it was likely destroyed in the Martian atmosphere or escaped back into heliocentric space. The issue?
Monday, July 6, 2020
Abigail Ambrose
Happy end of week 5! We are somehow already halfway through the summer. Currently, I am working to narrow accomplishments so that only the most important are in the short biographies I am writing for the SOR Fellows. How do you gauge what is the most important accomplishments in somebody’s life?
Monday, July 6, 2020
Max Dornfest
This fourth of July, while traveling down the river that is my internship, I looked outside sometime around evening. The sun was setting. It was painting a rainbow of autumn colors across the sky.
Sunday, July 5, 2020
Maria Stokes
Happy (belated) Independence Day! I am astounded that it is July. I knew this summer would go quickly, but it is nevertheless baffling to realize just how quickly it is flying by.
Sunday, July 5, 2020
Joseph Dees
While there are many things that I could talk about on this day, today is a day of remembrance. You might ask what we are to remember? Two Hundred Forty-Four years ago, our forefathers founded this country. While everyone will agree that this country is not perfect, we can also agree that it i
Sunday, July 5, 2020
Anna Murphree
[All views are my own.]
Somehow we are halfway through this internship! There’s a Bon Jovi reference in there somewhere, but I’m too proud to make it.
Sunday, July 5, 2020
Samantha Creech
Since the pandemic accelerated back in March, we’ve all been experiencing a weird passage of time. For some, it’s plodded by, each week like a year. For others, we blinked and found ourselves in July.
Monday, July 6, 2020
Benjamin Petkie
Wow already reflecting on week 5, time is really flying now and the summer AAPT meeting is coming up fast! The panel I’m hosting is coming along well, I reached out to one of my mentors and they connected me with 4 of their students.
Sunday, July 5, 2020
Paul McKinley
This week’s post will be a bit less focused on work, and a bit more focused on a small (relatively menial) experiment I’m running this week on human behavior, namely my own.
Sunday, July 5, 2020
Abdul Qadeer Rehan
The halfway mark brings me closer to completing my project. While we have covered a lot of ground there is still a vast set of tasks to which I look forward to completing over the coming weeks. This was the first time that I got to experience a long weekend in a work setting.
