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Greetings! Welcome to another edition of Science Talk BPA and BPS in our bodies, Voyager 1, Mars, Shenzou-9 The controversial BPS (a cousin of BPA) has been found in high percentages in the United States and Asia. In an ACS Publications, Environmental Science and Technology are reporting studies from the NY department of Health along with State University of NY and other Asian nations that rates found in human urine samples were high, but the … Continue reading →

Science Talk Greetings! Welcome to the 4th edition of Science Talk! If you had a chance, as I did, for a second to see the Transit of Venus congratulations! It was overcast most of the day and actually rained an hour before the start of the transit! What I watched of it was the sun peeking through the clouds and only for about a minute. I had a filter and used the pinhole method! One … Continue reading →

Greetings and hello, we have so much space happenings going on! We had an eclipse May 20, the Transit of Venus is this upcoming Tuesday and the first private space capsule Dragon returned!  I am going to repeat myself from my last post but I can not emphasize enough that this will be the last transit of Venus for over one hundred years!  The reason why it takes so long between transits is because of … Continue reading →

Greetings! This week I want to highlight a very important upcoming astronomical event. The transit of Venus will occur on the 5th of June. It will be the second time this has happened in my life time. Transit’s of Venus have a unique series of cycles. A very long period of time then an eight year short wait then another long long long wait till another one begins. According to Sky and Scope the length … Continue reading →