Category: Science
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Why do I Need to Know about Science . . . . #12
By Jaime Yarbrough, Science Editor – July 12, 2021 What am I about to read? Why do I need to read it? How will it make my life better? Once again, forgive me for my absence but as you know it’s summer, and there are places to go and things to do. Thank you for…
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Why do I need to know about … Science? #10
By Jaime Yarbrough – Science Editor – May 14, 2021 Morse code is not an example of encryption but of encipherment. When you solve encipherment, it is called decipherment. Steganography (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography ) is the practice of concealing a message within another message or a physical object. When I was enlisted in the United States Air…
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AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR CLASS
2-day Amateur Radio Technician License Class! May 29-30, 2021 (Saturday/Sunday – Memorial Day weekend) Taught via Zoom from Oregon: 8 am to 4 p.m. Saturday (PDT) 8 am to 12 p.m. Sunday (PDT) Special remote exam session, just for this class! 1 p.m. Sunday afternoon (PDT) (administered over the Internet) The class is FREE. The…
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Why do I need to know about . . .Science? #9
By Jaime Yarbrough, Science Editor – April 29, 2021 What am I about to read? Why do I need to read it? How will it make my life better? Today class, we will be talking about a different side of ‘science’ than one might think of, communications. Communications is generally thought of as more of…
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Why do I need to know about . . .Science? #7
By Jaime Yarbrough- Science Editor – March 20, 2021 What am I about to read? Why do I need to read it? How will it make my life better ? Welcome to SPRING 2021 ! It has been a long, long, long, dark, dark Winter and a lot happened. But, of course, that could be…
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Why do I need to know about . . .Science? #5
By Jaime Yarbrough – Science Editor – February 20, 2021 What am I about to read? Why do I need to read it? How will it make my life better? Today the topic is “spinoffs.” What is a spinoff (i.e. spin off)? Some of the synonyms include byproduct, offshoot, outgrowth, derivative, in short something that…
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What do I need to know about Science…#4
By Jaime Yarbrough, Science Editor – February 11, 2021 What am I about to read? Why do I need to read it? How will it make my life better? Greetings! Took some time off last week so I could get ready for a week of rain! Last time I promised a look at the three…
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WHY DO I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT . . . SCIENCE? #3
By Jaime Yarbrough, Science Editor – January 27, 2021 What am I about to read? Why do I need to read it? How will it make my life better? Space, the final frontier. Nah….we know more about space than we do about our own planets oceans. Besides, while space, the galaxy and a universe of…
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WHY DO I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT . . . SCIENCE #1
By Jaime Yarbrough, Science Editor What am I about to read? Why do I need to read it? How will it make my life better? These are the questions I will begin each article I will be writing. Let us just say I am a senior citizen. My perspective is reasonably unique to that age…
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ISS – The International Space Station
by Jaime Yarbrough, Vice President/co-founder of Genesis the San Francisco Chapter of the National Space Society. – December 24, 2020 The great majority of people alive today do not give space a lot of thought unless you are directly connected to the space effort. Most are aware of things like John Glenn, putting a man…