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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference & Research Specialist, in the Science, Technology, and Business Division of the Library of Congress. She is also author of the blog posts “Kebabs, Kabobs, Shish Kebabs, Shashlyk, and: Chislic” and “The Potato Transformed.” Years ago, I was wandering in the book stacks of the Library …
Posted in: Science, Women's History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Why was Ogma chosen to be on the doors of the John Adams Building.
Posted in: John Adams Building
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Blazars, pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, dark matter, behind-the-limb solar flares, black holes, micro black holes, Fermi bubbles, and antimatter! The Science, Technology and Business Division’s NASA/Goddard lecture series begins its eleventh season with “The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope: Opening a Window on the Extreme Universe.” Julie McEnery, Fermi Project Scientist and an astrophysicist in the Astroparticle …
Posted in: Astronomy/Mathematics, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
In August of 1990 surfer, sailor and marine conservationist, Jonathan White, led a seminar aboard his small schooner, Crusader, sailing among the islands and natural wonders of the Alaskan Panhandle. Anchoring for the evening in Kalinin Bay, White, his crew and passengers went to bed, awakening to find that a nighttime gale had left them …
Posted in: Lunchtime Lectures and Videos, Science
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
One of my favorite business titles in the Library’s collection is the Listing Statements of the New York Stock Exchange. It yields a lot of really interesting information on stocks and bonds issued by companies. It sometimes even includes company financial information, which can make it a great source for those doing company research. However, …
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, World War I