Author: Donna
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optica: A New Open-Access Journal from OSA
Authors can get their work published free of charge during the first year of Optica, a highly selective, open-access optics journal from the Optical Society of America (OSA).
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Boulder Startup Week
Boulder Startup Week has gotten off to a really great start. Giant kudos to Andrew Hyde, the BSW Team, and the rest of the startup community for making it happen. This morning at Agora at the Riverside, they had a terrific lineup of speakers from the Boulder “Maker” community. One of the most interesting to me, as…
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Happy Birthday, Hubble!
Image Source: Hubblesite.org The Hubble Space Telescope was conceived in 1923, approved by NASA in 1969, and approved by Congress in 1977. Designing and building Hubble was a coordinated effort between NASA Centers and universities, as well as private companies, including Perkin-Elmer Corp. and Lockheed Missiles. It was finally launched on April 24, 1990 and…
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Meet your Maker
I am very excited to attend the 1st Annual Denver Mini Maker Faire on May 3rd and 4th. From the website, “Maker Faire is an annual festival to make, create, learn, invent, craft, hack, recycle, build, think, play and be inspired.” If you want to learn how to send Morse Code via Arduino, build your own…