Dog Tip of The Day, March 29

A lot of people will be traveling with their pets over the next few days.  Make sure your pet is secure and has everything it needs.  Take a favorite toy, some water, something to chew on and as always, plenty of treats.  always have its collar on with licence and have a leash handy.  Remember a 100 pound dog flying from the back seat into your neck during a crash will ruin your day.

Natural Disasters, March 29

 

On this day in 1999 a 6.8 magnitude earthquake killed 103 people in India.

Science Birthdays, March 29

3/29/1561        Sanctorius Sanctorius                         physician         He measured weights of humans as they perspired. This was the beginning of the study of metabolism. He measured body temp using the first clinical thermometer, a water level thermometer. He also invented a device to measure pulse rate. He died in 1636 at age 75

 

3/29/1890        Jones, Sir Harold        astronomer      measured the distance to the sun. He died in 1960 at age 70

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Natural Disasters, March 28

 

On this day in 1920 the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affect the Great Lakes region and the Deep Southern states.

In 1970 the Gediz earthquake stuck Turkey with a magnitude 7.2, killing 1086 people.

Three Mile Island had a partial nuclear meltdown after a relief valve in the primary coolant system of Unit 2 stuck open causing an unexpected shutdown and the core overheated.

Then in 2005 an earthquake in Sumatra with an 8.7 magnitude struck Indonesia.

Dog Tip of The Day, March 28

I mentioned yesterday about not obedience training your dog for more than 10 or 15 minutes in a session, but you can have more than one session a day.  Work on this everyday.

Science Birthdays, March 28

3/28/1749        Laplace Pierre             astronomer      snobbish and ashamed of his origins. His family was poor and well-off neighbors helped him get an eductation. He may have actually been middle class. He worked with Lavoisier. He showed that the planets orbit the sun in the same direction. He was reluctant to give credit to others and he changed his political views to suit circumstances. He was made minister of astronomy but he was incompetent. He did however suggest a nebular hypothesis for the formation of planets and the sun . He died in 1827 age 78.

3/281837         Kuhne Willy               biologist          coined the word enzyme in 1876. He died in 1900 at age 63

Dog Tip of The Day, March 27

Don’t over-train your dog.  around 10 to 15 minutes of obedience training at a time or they get bored.   Give them a little exercise first to burn off some energy, then follow the training up with some play time.

Natural Disasters, March 27

 

On this day in 1964 the most powerful earthquake ever to strike the U.S. occured in Anchorage, Alaska, sometimes called the Good Friday Earthquake, it had a magnitude of 9.2.  I always thought this one was just called the Alaskan Earthquake.  This is the first time I have heard it called the Good Friday Earthqauake.    One hundred and twenty-five people were killed.

In 1890 a tornado in Louisville, Kentucky killed 76 and injured 200 on this day.

 

 

Science Birthdays, March 27

3/27/1817        Nageli Karl                 botanist           His work hindered the development of botany and genetics. He died in 1891 at the age of 74

3/27/1824        Hittorf Johann             chemist           concept of transport number, which means that ions do not travel to electrodes at the same speed. He died in 1914 at the age of 90

3/27/1845        Roentgen Wilhelm     physicist          Got expelled from school for ridiculing a teacher. In1895 he discovered X-Rays. The unit of X-Rays is called the Roentgen. The first person to be honored with the Nobel prize in physics was Roentgen in 1901. He refused to patent the invention or to gain financially from it because he thought that all humanity should have it.  With the rising inflation of the war, he died in poverty in 1923 at age 78

3/27/1847        Wallach Otto              chemist           Studied under Wohler, Hoffman and Kekule.  Discovered terpenes. He died in 1931 at age 84

3/27/1910        Pierce John                 engineer and author,   liked science fiction and believed in satellites, He worked with vacuum tubes, he developed the concept of Code Pulse Modulation, he coined the term transistor, credited for the saying “nature abhors a vacuum,” he wrote science fiction under the pseudonym of J.J. Coupling, his hobby was flying gliders.  He died in 2002 at the age of 92