Sam the Banana Man
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Meet the banana man Sam Zemurray.
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, New Orleans
Archive: October 2018 (3 Posts)
NASA Astrobiologist Melissa Trainer to Speak at the Library October 11 on Titan: An Exotic Ocean World Waiting to be Explored
Posted by: Angel Vu
This post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. Before the twenty years of the Cassini-Huygens mission, little was known about Saturn’s largest moon Titan, except that it was Mercury-sized and its surface was hidden beneath a thick, nitrogen-rich atmosphere. The Cassini mission mapped Titan’s surface, studied …
Posted in: Aeronautics/Astronautics, Astronomy/Mathematics, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos, ST&B Division
Back to School with the Blackboard -1817’s Newest Teaching Technology
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This post written by Michelle Cadoree Bradley, a Science Reference Specialist in the Science, Technology and Business Division. By the 1840s this teaching aid was being lauded as miracle of instruction. In a “Letter to a Primary School Teacher” published in the February 15,1844 issue of the The Common School Journal the author writes that …
Posted in: Science