by Bricks RSS | Feb 11, 2020 | SciBricks
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science. In celebration, let’s look at set 21312, Women of NASA. Margaret Hamilton is a computer scientist who directed the Software Engineering program at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, where she and her team...
by Bricks RSS | Mar 14, 2017 | SciBricks
It’s pi day again! Have some geeky fun on 3.14, like jsnyder002 and Lynn did.
by Bricks RSS | Jul 22, 2016 | SciBricks
The Juno probe was launched by NASA five years ago and recently arrived at its destination, orbiting Jupiter to study its composition, gravity field, magnetic field, and polar magnetosphere. I posted on this when the probe was launched, but it’s definitely worth...
by Bricks RSS | Mar 14, 2016 | SciBricks
I know, it’s been ages since I’ve blogged, but today is a two-fer. It’s Pi Day!!!! 3.1416!!!! Go eat some pie to celebrate. It’s also Albert Einstein’s birthday, so put 137 candles on that pie. Here are some appropriate LEGO images for...
by Bricks RSS | Dec 16, 2015 | SciBricks
The conflict between Galileo and the Catholic church has been a constant topic in discussions of the relationship between science and faith. One extreme characterization is that scientists held that the earth orbited the sun, but the church denied this based solely on...
by Bricks RSS | Dec 13, 2015 | SciBricks
The Gemini 4 mission (here by Shannon Sproule) in 1965 featured the first space walk, or extravehicular activity (EVA) by an American, Edward White.