Malawi Fundraiser for 2022 Under Way! Help out if you can

 We have begun out fundraising effort for our friends in Malawi! The money we have raised over the past five years have helped schools in Malawi, Africa, one of the top ten poorest countries in the world, purchase land, seed, fertilizer, pesticides, tools, and an irrigation system for dry season and future droughts. This has allowed the schools to feed over 1500 students for an entire school year with each harvest! This model is in response to the last famine the region experienced back in 2014-2015, and we refer to it as our EMPATHY Project.

We are thrilled that more schools will begin this process, so we literally need seed money for them to begin! Help out if you are able to through our GoFundMe site.  

This video provides some more detail about this work. THANK YOU for your consideration!!!

James Webb Telescope nearing operational phase

 The Webb space telescope, a marvel of modern science, technology, and engineering, has reached its home for years to come, orbiting the sun at a point known as L2, one of the Lagrange points of the Sun-Earth system. This is around 1 million miles from earth (4x's the distance to the moon). See this article for more information about Lagrange points in a 2-body gravitational systems, which are points of balance between the two gravitational forces on a small object at the Lagrange point and the 'centrifugal' force on the object at the Lagrange point (since objects moving in orbits want to be flung outward if they had their way due to their inertia). 

This is the next-generation telescope for astronomers around the world, and soon the Webb team will begin to focus this unique telescope and begin to calibrate its various detection systems to do highly anticipated science! 

Our World in Data - Amazing site!

  Looking for data and trends in countless areas of life? The Our World in Data site, run through the University of Oxford, is amazing! It has thousands of interactive graphs on everything from world hunger to electricity accessibility to education to war to agriculture...

It is also a site used in teaching for the world's best universities and sponsored by the top scientific and media-based organizations on the planet. Use it when writing papers for school or doing your own research. 

It is difficult to solve the world's big problems if one does not know the extent of the problems, and this site helps address that issue! 

Get beyond the politics of big problems, and go after the actual data to help figure it out!