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Published: 12/22/2020 2:21:26 PM Thanks to timely announcements from Dr. Fauci, we know that Santa Claus is immune from COVID-19. However, an investigation by the GeekWitness News Team has uncovered a shocking fact: This immunity may not extend to his elves! This is significant because Santa is upper management, meaning he isn’t really necessary. He calculates incentives (lump of coal? new toy?), writes “Naughty and Nice” memos to redefine the customer base, and attends endless cookie-and-milk meetings – but it’s the elves who do the work. If the SARS-CoV2 virus rips through Santa�...

John Grindrod: Once upon a Christmas time, what lay beneath the boughs By John Grindrod - Guest Columnist Of course, it had to be some yuppie type that coined that sentiment that he who dies with the most toys wins, perhaps after buying that third jet ski. However, the older I get and the more nostalgic, the more I realize that while there may be some satisfaction in getting an adult toy, that still doesn’t compare to the anticipation of what was seen lying beneath the tinsel-draped branches over a half century’s worth of Christmases ago. Those treasures often prompted the same yearning d...

D-Y robotics team taking it to the next level George Kostinas Looking like Erector Set structures on wheels, robots move across a 12x12-foot playing area, using arm-like extensions to place enlarged golf balls into goals to score points and knock opposing robots’ balls out of the goals. It is a complicated game that involves designing, programming, building and operating robots to perform in worldwide competitions, where teams from China have traditionally dominated. On Cape Cod, Mashpee has been the team to beat, but his year, the Dennis-Yarmouth High School robotics team feels it has a go...

Needs to know is there a problem? if so, i need to tell the right people in the test team. >> so how did you end up the only woman in the firing room during the launch of apollo 11? >> my director of information systems called me in. he said, you're our best communicator. we're going to have you on the console. later i found out he had to go and convince the center director, dr. kurt beebus, that it was going to be okay. >> do you think it had to go all the way to the top for the men that were in the firing room? >> oh, heck no. >> >> growing up she had a love for science and learning. >> she ...

>> i was the instrumentation controller. the instrumentation controller needs to know is there a problem? if so, i need to tell the right people in the test team. >> so how did you end up the only woman in the firing room during the launch of apollo 11? >> my director of information systems called me in. he said, you're our best my director called me in. he said you're our best communicator. we're going to have you on the console. later i found out he had to go convince the center director that it would be okay. >> do you think it had to go all the way to the top for the men in the firing room...