UPBEAT TIMES, INC. • AUGUST 2017 • 5 A little History...& More! ‘Just Chillin’


Santa Rosa, CA. ~ Wheee! Ein- stein was right! T at’s what the fabulous scientists at NASA assure us. Imag- ine “swarms of electrons are buzzing through the magnetic environment around Earth” while you are reading this column. All those busy electrons appear to be “dancing” according to that army of scientists. T ey spin and dive and when they penetrate the magnetosphere: Wow! Satel- lites in orbit risk damage from that high-energy and those of us lucky to be on the right parts of Earth can witness auroras. August is a great time to wit-


ness the spinning tight spirals along the magnetic fi eld. When all those electrons decide to spiral and bounce around they are defi nitely not break dancing but weaving in moves called Speiser motion. Folks at CalTech and MIT are re- ally excited that when physicists search for the true nature of grav- ity they are now witnessing what Einstein pronounced in his spot-on theory of relativity with mounting evidence. Celebrate the marvel of science by thinking of how beauti- fully waves of sunlight can create rainbows when all that white light passes through water vapor. –What a beautiful world! All of this intro was necessary


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What’s Yours? “The greenest of pastures are right here on earth.” ~ Jennifer Donnelly UPBEAT TIMES, INC. • AUGUST 2017 • 5


“Dancing Electrons in the Sky!” JOKES & Humor # 2 by Ellie Schmidt ~ eschmidt@upbeattimes.com


to pay true tribute to an incred- ibly giſt ed high school classmate of mine, Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus, lovingly known by her many fans as “Millie Dressel- haus.” Because of her extraordinary accomplishments


she was dubbed the “queen of carbon sci- ence.”


No surprise, since she was awarded


the National Medal of Science in 1990 and served as the fi rst female Institute Professor at MIT for de- cades, winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom award in 2014, three years before her passing. Mil- lie and her also famous physicist husband, Gene Dresselhaus, fi rst predicted the “band structure of carbon nanotubes” now labeled the Rashba-Dresselhaus Eff ect show- ing the “spin-orbital interaction eff ect.” We can thank “Millie” and also the late Maryam Mirzakhani, the fi rst woman to win the formi- dable Fields Medal in mathematics, and more dedicated scientists for creating technology in almost ev- erything we use today. On August 21, scientists tell us,


birds may get confused because for the fi rst time in 99 years the global population of Earth will witness a rare Solar Eclipse. As if you took a paint brush to canvas and vigorous- ly swept a diagonal path all across


America, from the northwest, zip through to the Atlantic, you will have at least partial eclipse. But, in the zone called “wide of total-


path


ity,” the sky


wrote in “T e Little Prince” about both seeing and hearing “500 mil- lion little bells of laughing stars.” Happy 105th Birthday to a very


diff erent star: Eugene Curran Kel- ly—aka Gene Kelly--was a beloved and multi-talented fi lm star. Born on August 23, 1912, seems every- one recalls with great pleasure that exhilarating performance he gave in “Singin’ in the Rain.” His star cer- tainly shines on the American Film Institute list of greatest male stars of classic Hollywood cinema history. Since August is oſt en recognized both for “Dog Days” (thanks to the Dog constellation of stars) and for the “Silly Season” of summer fun, we need to fi nd a chuckle among some com- pletely unnecessary, strange set


will dark, go just for a few min- utes, smack in the middle


of the day. Stars will shine in some places. T e nightingales will sing in others. And all witnesses will have seen the awesome magic of the “cosmic coincidence” when on Earth the optical illusion will be that the moon and sun seem to be the same size. Perhaps it is at moments like


that—more accurately—when we stare up at the magnifi cence of the Valley of the Moon black vel- vet sparkling expanse of sky that maybe we too can be as fortunate as Antoine de Saint-Exupery when he


of facts. 1) Did you know that if you drop a raisin in a glass of fresh champagne it will bounce up and down continuously from the bot-


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A: They take the psychopath. ~


A man working with an electric saw accidentally cuts off all of his fi ngers. At the emergency room, his doctor says, “Give me the fi ngers, and I’ll see what I can do.”


The injured man repies, “But I don’t have the fi ngers!” “Why didn’t you bring them?” the doctor asks. The injured man responds, “Doc, I couldn’t pick them up.”


“The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.” Anthony de Mello


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