Editor Blogs
Current
Astronaut Chris Cassidy practices wearing a mask in preparation for a return to Earth.
Turns out that traveling 250 miles above the Earth’s surface can’t escape the coronavirus.
Not to worry – there hasn’t been an outbreak of COVID-19 aboard the International Space Station. Our favorite little global pandemic is still confined to the globe.
But astronaut Chris Cassidy is wearing a mas
. . . Read More
Date:
10/19/2020
GE Current's new UV-C-based LPU puck could help deactivate COVID-19
In the June print issue, I pondered whether UV light could help in the fight against COVID-19. The answer, it turns out, isn’t so straightforward. While ultra-violet light can’t be sent inside the body, like President Trump suggested (without doing more harm than good, anyway), it can be used to deactivate SARS-CoV-2.
. . . Read More
Date:
10/12/2020
The James V. Glynn, one of the two all-electric, zero emission passenger vessels launched by the Maid of the Mist boat tour.
About six years ago, my wife and I took a roadtrip to Toronto, and along the way, we stopped at Niagara Falls. Despite my horrible motion sickness, I agreed to go on the Maid of Mist, because you don’t visit Niagara Falls and not ride the Maid of the Mist. And….I got horrible motion sickness. But it was a fu
. . . Read More
Date:
10/05/2020
Archives
