• Please make sure all your daughters read this (or any sexist bastard you know while we’re at it):

    Ok, I realize that my language here is a bit politically incorrect, but sometimes you just can’t say it any other way. Prof. Fiona Harrison kicks ass! She’s professor and the current department chair at the Astronomy/Physics Dept at Caltech, one of the top universities in the world. But more importantly, she designed a friggin’ space X-ray observatory, that had one of the most complicated launch manoeuvres possible, and it has worked so spectacularly that even as a small “cheap” mission it’s revolutionised my field! Today she was awarded a big prize by the international Committee on Space Research (COSPAR). Here’s the motivation, but it just makes me proud of…

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