This amazing photograph of the total eclipse of the sun on December 14, 2020 was taken in Argentina.
This image is used with the permission of the Miloslav Druckmuller.
See more about this image and his other photographic work here.
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Have your heard the Blob Opera?
January 6, 2021Go to this link and wait for the program to load to try it yourself.
What am I noting today?
January 5, 2021Today is Whipped Cream Day and, for me, talking about whipped cream always calls up memories of Boukair’s Restaurant on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland. When I was young that was the place to go for fancy ice cream sundaes topped with a mountain of real whipped cream. The sundaes were served in pedestal glass dishes in different colors – they were magical.
In writing this post I was looking online for information about whipped cream and came across a number of recipes on how to make it – really?! It’s cream. You whip it up.
Actually my sister-in-law is the subject of one of my favorite stories. She was making Thanksgiving dinner for the whole family one year and was multi-tasking. She had heavy cream in the mixer that was destined to be whipped cream for the pies for dessert. She got distracted and the cream over-whipped, but without missing a beat, we had fresh whipped butter for our mashed potatoes that night.
What graduate students do
December 23, 2020
“A Physics student at Delft University of Technology creates world’s smallest Christmas tree made up of just 51 atoms from a perfect crystal lattice. The tree is exactly 4 nanometers tall, or 4 millionths of a millimeter.
The student Maura Willems for her graduation, uses high-powered microscope to build small structures, literally atom by atom, in order to study their quantum mechanical properties. Then changed each one’s position.”
Images credit TUdelf
Gunsmoke and Knitting 