bookmark_borderAs Long as We are Curious, We Still Have Hope

This image of the rose-coloured star forming region Messier 17 was captured by the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile.
Region Messier 17 captured by ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile

I have an interesting history with science. My earliest science memory was being in year 7 chemistry class. We were dealing with very diluted acids and I managed to spill some all over my then boyfriend’s crotch and stained his jeans. It’s one of those things that still haunts my thoughts many decades later. In high school we had physics class, and the teacher let everyone cheat because the majority of the class was on the football team and he was the coach. I didn’t learn much there.

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bookmark_borderYes, I Actually Do Like Cricket

Michael Hussey takes on a delivery from Shaun Pollock (Creative Commons Attribution)

I grew up in the US but have lived in Australia a very long time. However, it absolutely blows people’s minds that I’m into cricket and I regularly get questions about it, because well… Americans don’t know cricket. (They actually do have a team now but it’s definitely not commonplace.) It all started for me in New Zealand, actually.

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