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This week's #NewBooks at the library: I bought a discounted copy of Thomas Piketty's brick Capital and Ideology (that's what reading about degrowth gets you into...), bought an original (not print-on-demand) copy of the Imbries' classical #ScienceHistory book on the discovery of the #IceAges, and bought a discounted copy of The #Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.

#Economics #IceAges #Palaeoclimatology #HistoryOfScience #HistSci #Astronomy #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon

A photo of three books on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books, part of the beech-coloured laminate floor, and a red curtain covering the door.

On the left, standing up, Capital and Ideology, showing the title and author name in golden lettering on a cream-white background.

In the middle, lying down but propped up slightly, Ice Ages: Solving the Mystery, showing an old photograph of a snow-covered mountaintop.

On the right, standing up, The Asteroid Hunter, showing a comet against a colourful blue and red nebula. The picture is divided into nine panels, with the horizontal bars giving the book's subtitle.

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Happy birthday to Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) a physician who became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour for NASA, on September 12, 1992! She also has a B.S. in chemical engineering, served in the Peace Corps, is a dancer and choreographer, formed and runs her own company researching the application of technology to daily life, and even 🧵
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#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #astronaut #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci

My linocut portrait of astronaut Mae Jemison in her flight suit, holding her helmet, with the globe of Earth above and to left.

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Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown in 1930)! Shown with satellite tracks & 3 satellites important to her career: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. 🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #Spacetober #EarthScience #Math

My linocut portrait of Gladys West with 3 satellites important to her career in indigo in from of world map with satellites tracks in blue.

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Happy birthday to #physicist Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) who discovered atomic recoil, Radon & recognized radioactive elements could undergo chains of transmutations into a series of new elements. #nuclear #physics⁠
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She was Rutherford’s 1st grad student at McGill. After publishing her results in 1899 she completed her MSc in 1901 on “Damping of Electrical Oscillations,” before embarking on #radioactivity research.⁠ 🧵
⁠ #linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #histsci

My 9.25" x 12.5" linocut portrait of physicist Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) in a gradient of turquoise to green, shows her and her discovery of atomic recoil in gold (Radon gives off an alpha particle and daughter nucleus goes in opposite direction). A series of diagrams at the bottom shows how the Rutherford research group understood chains of radioactive active transmutations at the time.

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