David Almandsmith 3 February 2025 Hello again science fans!科学ファンの皆さん、こんにちは！(The first Japanese immigrants arrived in the Bay Area in 1869. Today about 20,000 Bay Area residents speak Japanese at home.) SPACE The OSIRIS-REx Mission collected 120 grams (4 oz) of regolith (broken rock & dust) from the asteroid Bennu in 2020 and returned the sample to Earth in 2023. Just … Read more
6 January 2025 Hello again Science Fans!Salut encore les amateurs de science ! (Canadian French)Bonjour à nouveau, fans de science ! (France French)Bonjou ankò Fanatik Syans! (Haitian Creole) I guess we could be considered fans, amateurs, and/or fanatiks. 2025Thanks to Phil Plait, The Bad Astronomer, 2025 is mathematically unusual. 2025 = 452 2025 = 92 x 52 2025 … Read more
Parker Solar Probe – NASA Hello again Science Fans!ሰላም በድጋሚ የሳይንስ ደጋፊዎች! (Many of the Bay Area’s 20,000 Ethiopians live in Oakland.) The weekly SciSchmooze reliably delivers the latest in science, especially for the San Francisco Bay Area. Give friends and family a free subscription at https://www.bayareascience.org/. As we cross over into the year 2025, … Read more
1 December 2024 Hello again fans of science,Dumelang hape barati ba mahlale, (Lesotho Peace Corps memories) I trust you had an enjoyable Thanksgiving, avoided coming to blows with contrary cousins, and survived Black Friday, Saturday, Sunday. ARCHAEOLOGY ¿Have you been to the Mayan ruins of Copán, Chichen Itza, Palenque, Tikal, Uxmal, or others in Mexico … Read more
The election revealed the willingness of ‘normal folk’ to accept proffered attitudes and revealed the rapacity of captains of industry. It also suggested a deficiency of compassion and empathy. The promise to make the country great again had considerable appeal. The promise brought memories of a time before failures on the international front; memories of a … Read more
Dave Almandsmith4 November 2024 Hello again, friends of science, When the United States Constitution was adopted in 1788, the only women allowed to vote were property owners in several New Jersey jurisdictions. That ‘oversight’ was corrected in 1790 when a New Jersey law specifically banned women and non-whites from voting. The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 is … Read more
Hello again science fans,Aloha hou e ka poʻe ʻepekema, SPACE Comets are fickle. They can delight with their brightness, or they can disappoint with their fading. The above long-exposure photo was taken last week in the Southern Hemisphere, but we northern folk will likely be able to see the comet starting Thursday just after sunset … Read more
Hello again science fans, CLIMATE Multiple States continue to suffer deaths, power outages, floods, and destruction from Hurricane Helene. Over 80% of climate scientists agree that climate change is a crisis and is contributing to the strength of hurricanes. Just as earthquake simulations have led to building codes that help protect us, hurricane simulations are similarly leading to … Read more
Image credit: SpaceX Hello again, science fans.Hallo nochmal, Wissenschaftsfans.(Over 40,000 Bay Area residents speak German at home.) SPACE He emerged and then retreated back to the interior. He was not a groundhog, and his retreat does not suggest we will have 6 more weeks of winter. Jared Isaacson and fellow Polaris Dawn crew member, Sarah Gillis, … Read more
Green Water 01: A fully-electric 10,000 tonne container shipImage: China Ocean Shipping Company Hello again science fans.Bonjour à tous les fans de science.(Over 45,000 Bay Area residents speak French at home.) CLIMATE Above is the world’s second all-electric cargo ship. It’s 120m long, 24m wide, and has the battery capacity of a thousand Model Y … Read more