Fission is in the news, but few recognize that a woman physicist was behind the discovery.

Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry w/o her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.

Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201502/physicshistory.cfm #women #history #science #HistoryRemix

You can donate directly to the defense and reconstruction of Ukraine:

https://u24.gov.ua/

Donations towards medical aid or rebuilding (but not defense and demining) appear to be tax deductible (EIN 87-2080907).

For every boost this post gets, I'll add a dollar to my next donation.

My monthly greenhouse gas update...

Latest data available from https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/

Can today get any better!

Judge strips Alex Jones of bankruptcy protections for $1.5 billion Sandy Hook debt

https://www.rawstory.com/alex-jones-bankruptcy-2658986002/

Coffee drinkers! Listen! Starbucks workers nationwide are starting a 3-day strike today (Friday 12/16) as part of their effort to unionize.

How can you help? Don't cross the picket line. Get your coffee elsewhere. (Preferably at independent coffee shops. Long live small biz).

And spread the word! Make this message viral. Let's hold billionaire corps accountable because worker's rights are human rights. Let's go.

RT @[email protected]

I used MoveToDon to bring my follower list over from Twitter. It's not perfect but it's not horrible. Took about 10 minutes.

Knowing my luck, it's some horrific North Korean malware trap, but as of right now I recommend it.

https://www.movetodon.org/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1603550146838626305

And here is a little bit of the Aurora Australis from Magnet Bay, no trails this time, one of the cool little bays on Banks Peninsula

#photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #longexposure #NewZealand #PhotoMonday #astro #astrophotography