Search results
3 days ago · Presenting at ADASS 2024. 2024 September 26. A quick public service announcement: I’ll be attending and presenting at the ADASS 2024 (aka ADASS 34) meeting in November! I have an accepted contributed talk entitled DASCH: Bringing 100+ Years of Photographic Data into the 21st Century and Beyond.
2 days ago · Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE FRSA (/ ˈ (j) uː s t ɪ n ɒ f / (Y)OO-stin-off; born Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinov; 16 April 1921 – 28 March 2004) was a British actor, director and writer.
Sep 19, 2024 · As part of preparations to squeeze in a few more scans of some “odds and ends” plates, I’ve been digging into the Plate Stacks’ collection of historical observing logbooks to learn more about them. The logbooks provide a fascinating window into how cutting-edge science was performed, a hundred and twenty years ago.
1 day ago · The Tamaqua area community is mourning a Pennsylvania State Trooper who died Wednesday evening at St. Luke’s Miner’s campus. Trooper Peter K. Conforti was rushed to the hospital after going into cardiac arrest. He leaves behind a wife and son.
Sep 12, 2024 · The countdown to ENA’s new romantic drama ‘Drunken Romance’ has officially begun! On September 12, ENA dropped photos of the drama’s leads – Kim Sejeong, Lee Jong Won, Shin Do-hyun, and Baek Sung Chul from the script reading session.
1 day ago · Peter Andreas Thiel (/ t iː l /; born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. [1] [2] [3] A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook.
Sep 6, 2024 · In 1969, Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull coined the term the “Peter Principle” to express how competent workers get promoted to a point where they are no longer good at their jobs.
