The Science Museum of Minnesota announced on their Facebook page that they'll be reopening this Saturday. There are some strict rules that will be followed to keep everyone safe.
Feb. 18—There's a new creature hanging around the Science Museum of Minnesota, arriving just in time for the St. Paul museum to reopen next week after its second COVID precautions shutdown. Two models of Quetzalcoatlus, a pterosaur that is one of the biggest known flying animals of all time, were installed recently — one aloft with a 35-foot wingspan (which would certainly provide ample shade .
Caption: Paul Sebring was the first director of MIT Haystack Observatory, serving from 1970 to 1980. He joined Lincoln Laboratory in 1952, and led its Space Surveillance Group (Millstone and Haystack) from 1958 to 1970, when Haystack became a radio/radar astronomy observatory open to the scientific community, under the Mansfield Amendment. He was the site supervisor of the Haystack Facility from 1964 to 1970. Credits: Photo: Ellen Sebring
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Former and first MIT Haystack Observatory Director Paul Brown Sebring died Jan. 3 at age 102 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Born in 1918 in Washington, Indiana, Sebring graduated from Purdue University in 1940 and joined the engineering department of Zenith Radio Corporation. During World War II, he was invited by Professor F. V. Hunt of Harvard University to join the Underwater Sound Laboratory, which developed anti-submarine devices and guided torpedoes for the U.S
Minnesota nonprofits getting creative to crawl out of COVID-19 financial hole The coronavirus has wreaked havoc for the nonprofit world, from large health systems to small arts and social service agencies and colleges. These organizations must now figure out how to rebuild after vaccines allow public spaces to open and people form new habits. January 23, 2021 7:15am Text size Copy shortlink:
Nonprofits across the spectrum have tackled the constraints of the pandemic in similar ways with creativity as the watchword.
The work of compiling the annual Star Tribune Nonprofit 100 is always an exercise in looking backward. But relying on 2019 results for 2021 budgeting might edge dangerously close to sepia-hued nostalgia not reflecting the effect of the coronavirus pandemic or the racial unrest of 2020.