Penny commented that today is Annie Jump Cannon's birthday. I have long known of her as a famous astronomer but I did not know that she became deaf as an adult. Thanks, Penny, for providing the link to Disability Studies at Temple U. and the bit about Annie Jump Cannon for her birthday today. Do visit the DS-TU page; there is a marvelous photo of Cannon and a great short little bio. Her biography at 4000 Years of Women in Science is here. Also see this site at Wellesley. Great photos there, too, and a link to more info.
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As I write this, I'm told that there are eleven water cannon vehicles heading to the disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, to attempt to cool down nuclear material that is exposed and exuding (I dare not use the word "leaking" lest I be thought an alarmist) radiation at a rate
How do you move a private cannon across the USA in this day and age?
'cause in 2006, MIT students took the Fleming House cannon and moved it to MIT
I'm flying away again, straight back to Minneapolis, arriving this evening.
"Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all." -Annie Jump Cannon