Austrian Physicist Lise Meitner was born #OTD in 1878. She was the first to pinpoint the atomic phenomenon now known as the Auger effect, but it was credited to Pierre Auger who independently discovered it months after her. Years later when she made a breakthrough in identifying and understanding nuclear fission, her findings were published only under the name of her collaborator, Otto Hahn, who later also received the Nobel Prize for this discovery. via @IAEA

#science #physics

@accretionist Well said.

A good time to remind voters who get easily disenchanted: In a lifetime there will be very few elections where you have a candidate you feel good about on all your top issues. Vote anyway, or else you're letting less conscientious people choose our officeholders.

A voter's job is to stay informed and engaged. Autocrats would rather you stay home and opt out. Low turnout is ideal for bad guys. Keep voting, year after year. Not a love affair- it’s a job.

Delighted that Cabel chose Internet Archive to host all these wonderful catalogs.

"DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs"

https://cabel.com/2023/11/06/dak-and-the-golden-age-of-gadget-catalogs/