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Perseverance on Mars: February 18, 2021

Posted on February 18, 2021 by Brian H. Gill

(Mars 2020 getting ready for launch last year.) I’ll be looking at NASA’s Mars 2020 Ingenuity helicopter, the spacecraft, and an experimental oxygen generator. With a quick look at news of the mission’s landing this afternoon. Outward Bound: July 30, … Continue reading →

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Couney’s Baby Incubators vs. the Progressive Era

Posted on February 8, 2021 by Brian H. Gill

(Babies under glass at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific-Exposition, Seattle, Washington. (1909)) Martin A. Couney was not your typical Progressive Era American doctor. For one thing, Couney may not have been an officially-approved doctor. He said that he’d studied under Dr Pierre-Constant Budin. … Continue reading →

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Rereading Christopher Marlowe’s “Doctor Faustus”

Posted on January 6, 2021 by Brian H. Gill

“Dr. Faustus” keeps coming back. Christopher Marlowe’s play, I mean, not Johann Georg Faust. J. G. Faust lived five centuries back. Give or take a bit. Extracting his biography from folk legends, chapbooks and assorted other retellings? I’ll leave that … Continue reading →

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Beirut Blast: Ammonium Nitrate and Human Nature

Posted on August 11, 2020 by Brian H. Gill

Update (August 12, 2020) “Beirut port resumes partial operations a week after explosion” Al Jazeera (August 12, 2020) “…According to Lebanon’s caretaker economy minister, the port is now operating to unload vessels for merchants. “‘There are 12 cranes out of … Continue reading →

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