On April 23, 1923, the university celebrated a new, 36-inch telescope that would kick off major astronomical research. Steward Observatory will be rededicated this weekend in honor of its 100-year anniversary.
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Meet Natalie Songer, who is launching a theatre tour exploring her family’s story, linking a World War II concentration camp with man’s leap onto the moon
Meet Natalie Songer, who is launching a theatre tour exploring her family’s story, linking a World War II concentration camp with man’s leap onto the moon
Hey, Steven Spielberg, Why Not Put Some Of Your Big Bucks Where Your Blockbuster Is This Summer?
By Dan Huff
ROUGHLY 65 MILLION years ago, a fairly large comet or asteroid
slammed into the earth near what is now Mexico s Yucatan Peninsula. Judging by the geological evidence scientists have unearthed
all over the world, the horrendous impact triggered a massive
die-off of plant and animal life. Some theorize this event may
have hurried the dinosaurs to extinction, thus allowing some otherwise
unremarkable, possibly rat-sized mammal to flourish on the evolutionary
plains of time, eventually giving rise to.well, us. As a species, we ve only very recently become aware of the distinct