This site is designed to help medical students choose a medical specialty. You will be asked to rate your tendencies compared to the tendencies of physicians in each specialty. The higher your score for a given specialty, the more similar you are to the physicians in that specialty.
Full disclosure: I’m not a doctor, and I don’t play one on TV.
According to this test, if I DID go into medicine, I should be a pediatrician.
This 19th century author’s novels predicted submarines, flying machines, skyscrapers and even the moon landing while at the same time inspiring some of the world’s most important scientists. How did he do it?
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Three persons were particularly significant in the transition from the small rockets of the 19th century to the colossi of the space age: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky in Russia, Robert H. Goddard in the United States, and Hermann Oberth in Germany. It is generally agreed that priority goes to Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935), who apparently in his teens became interested in the possibility of spaceflight.
He was a sickly boy, often bedridden with tuberculosis, who passed the time with fantastical stories by Jules Verne and H.G. Wells that made his mind imagine otherworldly exploration.
But for Robert Goddard, who would become the founding father of rocket science decades before men were sent to the moon, traveling to places far from Earth wasn’t just the stuff of fiction.
In 1899, Goddard became convinced it was possible to blast a rocket into space, and began pursuing physics to prove his theory. He was 17
The scientific papers he started publishing attracted attention from the media, which quickly dismissed Goddard as a mad scientist without a prayer of proving his theories.
A few days before the first manned moon landing in 1969, The New York Times ran a correction about a story they published 49 years earlier mocking Goddard’s theories.
Hermann Julius Oberth, born June 25, 1894 in the Transylvanian town of Hermannstadt, is, along with the Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and the American Robert Goddard, one of the three founding fathers of rocketry and modern astronautics. Interestingly, although these three pioneers arrived at many of the same conclusions about the possibility of a rocket escaping the earth’s gravitational pull, they seem to have done so without any knowledge of each other’s work.
Oberth’s interest in rocketry was sparked at the age of 11. His mother gave him a copy of Jules Verne’s From The Earth To The Moon, a book which he later recalled he read “at least five or six times and, finally, knew by heart.” It was a young Oberth, then, that discovered that many of Verne’s calculations were not simply fiction, and that the very notion of interplanetary travel was not as fantastic as had been assumed by the scientific community.
Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) was one of the most important rocket developers and champions of space exploration during the period between the 1930s and the 1970s. As a youth he became enamored with the possibilities of space exploration by reading the science fiction of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, and from the science fact writings of Hermann Oberth, whose 1923 classic study, Die Rakete zu den Planetenraumen (By Rocket to Space), prompted young von Braun to master calculus and trigonometry so he could understand the physics of rocketry.
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Take Formula-1, multiply the speed by 10 (just to start), add in metal melting 3000 degree exhaust plumes of pure flame, acceleration of 0 to Mach 2.4 in 2.5 seconds, and aerospace technologies, and you’re talking the most extreme of extreme forms of transport…. Rocket Power!
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What do rocket scientists say when they want to describe a portion of their work as easy?
Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929, Stockholm) grew up in Chicago and attended Yale University (1946-50) before settling permanently in New York City in 1956.
Oldenburg began a series of sewn and fabricated versions of ordinary household objects, later visualized in fantastic scale as “Proposed Colossal Monuments” for urban settings all over the world. In 1976, a 45-foot-tall sculpture in the form of a Clothespin was realized in downtown Philadelphia, the first such work in a ‘feasible’ scale.
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen began their artistic collaboration with the Trowel I, sited in ~ the Netherlands. Since that time, they have made over forty Large-Scale Projects in response to commissions by various cities, towns, and museums around the world.
Ordinary objects are the starting points for independent sculptures on a monumental scale, which create a dynamic interchange with their surroundings and redefine the relation between art and architecture.
“Monolithic” does describe many of these works — including Batcolumn, installed in front of Chicago’s Social Security Administration Building; and Clothespin, located in Centre Square in Philadelphia. They went on to build giant pool balls, a Crusoe umbrella, a flashlight, split button, hats, a garden hose, and a stake that could be used to used to tether giant horses that pierces two floor of the Dallas Museum of Art. They have build a spoonbridge with a cherry perched on it, a monument to the last horse, binoculars that are part of a building, and a bicycle that is so buried that you only see the small parts of the wheel, peddle, seat and handlebar rising above ground.
Critics recognized that the couple projects Pop Art themes forward, transforming art known for transience into very permanent works. In the process, Oldenburg and van Bruggen have freed Pop art from gallery walls and delivered it to the masses.
Based in St. Louis, Anheuser-Busch is the leading American brewer, holding a 48.8 percent share of U.S. beer sales. The company brews the world’s largest-selling beers, Budweiser and Bud Light.
According to August Busch IV, president of Anheuser-Busch, Budweiser has some interesting new marketing priorities. He writes:
“First, while beer is America’s favorite beverage with 58 percent of overall alcohol servings, we must continue to improve the image and desirability of beer.
Second, we must keep beer fun and social.
Third, we must grow beer occasions.
And fourth, we must continue to improve our retail execution.”
A Lyrebird is either of two species of ground-dwelling Australian birds, most notable for their extraordinary ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment.
A constellation is a group of stars that, when seen from Earth, form a pattern. The stars in the sky are divided into 88 constellations.
Constellations have been documented in many different forms, such as pottery, coins, and other items dating back to 4000 B.C. The Greek poet Aratus of Soli gave a verse description of 44 constellations in his Phaenomena. The Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy, in his Almagest, described 48 constellations, of which 47 are known today by the same name.
Depending on your location, different constellations can be seen for each season.
Personally, I like looking for Deep Sky Objects like the Orion Nebula, which is still within the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy, and other Messier Objects.
Once you have found Andromeda, ~ find the giant Andromeda Galaxy. Its large size should make it pretty easy to find. ~ You should take a second to think about the size of what your are seeing. This galaxy is over 250,000 light years across, which makes it more than twice as large as our own Milky Way galaxy. It’s very impressive.
If you didn’t make it to Germany for the World Cup, you can simulate the experience here.
Blogs are “conversation stations” and the goal of this site is to share a spotlight on the unique voices and personalities in Iowa. The blogs are their own. We’re thankful they share their voice with us.
Hey, check it out. I’m listed on the Iowa Blogs Blogroll.
It’s French. I don’t understand it, but hey, it’s still kind of fun.
