a simple prop

Two weeks to go before the semester begins here at ASU and I still have syllabi to put together for my two classes (more on them closer to the start) along with three book reviews to finish. It has been a lazy Summer for a change, but that means there is much to do during the last few weeks before classes start.

Below the fold is your Today in Science

Events

1961 – Second successful manned orbital flight (USSR, Gherman Titov)

1964 – Prometheus, the world’s oldest tree, is cut down.

1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web.

1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

Births

1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate

1900 – Cecil H. Green, American geophysicist

Deaths

1753 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist

1979 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate