Weather in northwest Orange County for Friday, October 1, 2021
Weather in northwest Orange County for Friday, October 1, 2021
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We are pleased to unveil the winners of the 2020 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, for American women book collectors aged thirty and younger.
NANTUCKET — Light pollution on Nantucket has increased by 2.4% each year since 2012, according to data obtained by satellites. So that means there is 22% more light pollution on the island today than just nine years ago. A group of year-round and seasonal residents has started Nantucket Lights, a new citizen advocacy group, to try to do something about that. Its mission is to preserve and protect Nantucket's nighttime environment and heritage of dark skies. Members are striving to raise awareness about light pollution there as well as advocating for environmentally responsible outdoor li...
¿Cuándo llegaron las mujeres al espacio? Hace 60 años Yuri Gagarin se convirtió en el primer ser humano en el espacio, pero ¿qué hay de las mujeres? Se sabe que una de las primeras astrónomas conocidas de la historia fue Hipatia, filósofa y maestra neoplatónica griega, natural de Egipto. También existió Wang Zhenyi, una astrónoma, matemática y autora china de textos sobre cosmos incluyendo "Sobre la longitud y las estrellas", "Sobre la explicación de los eclipses lunares" o "La explicación del eclipse solar"; y destacada por la creación de un modelo de la Tierra, el Sol y...
Living on Nantucket, a small island off the coast of Massachusetts, I am fortunate to experience a diverse population with various ethnicities, economic levels, and social identities.