Brown Dwarf Variability and implications for ExoplanetsBrown dwarfs are sub-stellar objects that occupy the region of parameter space between gas giant planets, like Jupiter, and the smallest bona fide stars. Since brown dwarfs never achieve sustained core hydrogen fusion, they are destined to cool over cosmic timescales from thousands to hundreds of degrees Kelvin. Observations and ...
The American Health Care Mess: A Doctor's PerspectiveDr. Sandeep Jauhar, a cardiologist, is the director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. His two books about his medical education and career-Intern: A Doctor's Initiation and Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician-provide trenchant insights into the inefficiencies and waste of our troubled, profit-driven ...
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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace & Babbage A graphic novel debut that transforms a compelling scientific collaboration into an unexpected -- and hilarious -- series of adventures.A unique take on the unrealized invention of the computer in the 1830s by the eccentric polymath Charles Babbage and his accomplice, the daughter of Lord Byron, Ada, Countess of Lovelace. ...
Junky Dory Sail your way through the discovery and resurrection of early 1900s Chinese junksy shrimp boats that worked in San Francisco Bay. From archaeological excavation of wrecks in China Camp State Park to research in the shipyards of Southern China to the accurate reconstruction and sailing of the resurrected ...
