Oct 19th, 2008| 12:33 am | Posted by vlk
Last month, Senator McCain (R-AZ) wildly dissed on Chicago’s Adler Planetarium, characterizing a funding request on its behalf as “planetariums and other foolishness.” Continue reading ‘“planetariums and other foolishness”’ »
Aug 27th, 2008| 07:50 am | Posted by vlk
UChicago, my alma mater, is doing alright for itself in the spacecraft naming business.
First there was Edwin Hubble (S.B. 1910, Ph.D. 1917).
Then came Arthur Compton (the “MetLab”).
Followed by Subramanya Chandrasekhar (Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics).
And now, Enrico Fermi.
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