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Continuing my work to help my former ESL students, I am posting a second profile that I have written up about a famous scientist. This is one is about Albert Einstein. I think it’s quite informative and easy to read.

Albert Einstein was a great scientist. He was born on March 14th, 1879 in Wurrtenberg, Germany. He studied physics and mathematics at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School.

Albert Einstein had many great achievements. He is famous for his general theory of relativity. His study of atomic theory led to E= MC2. He also did much work in the Brownian movements. He made many discoveries in molecular dimensions. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics.

Albert Einstein was a peace activist. He advocated World government and peace through discussions in the World Government movement. He cared about people and effects that science had on them. He had a strong determination to solve problems and seek answers. He was dedicated to science and appreciated intellectual solitude where he did most of his work.

Albert Einstein married Mileva Maric in 1903. They had 2 sons and 1 daughter. Albert Einstein died on April 19th, 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey.

It’s been a long time since I wrote a science articles. It’s also been a while since I wrote personal profile. To get back into the swing of things, I have decided to put up a couple of quick profiles I wrote about scientists. Here is one on Galileo. Bear with me since they are designed for ESL students.

Galileo Galilei was a great scientist. He was born on February 18th, 1564 in Tuscany, Pisa, Italy. He studied at the University of Pisa. His father was Vicencio Galilei and helped him in his early studies. Galileo Galielei died on Jan 8th, 1642 in prison.

Galileo Galilei had many great achievements. He is famous for discovering the Law of Inertia. He advanced the Copernicus Theory that says the Earth revolves around the sun. It had been accepted that the Earth was the center of the Universe. He also discovered moons around Jupiter and Saturn. He was the inventor of the telescope.

Galileo Galilei was a curious person and it lead him to many discoveries. He was intellectually honest. His strong determination means that he never gave up his studies. He withstood much persecution from the Catholic Church for his beliefs. Through it all, he became a successful man who is revered by many scientists.

One of the things I miss about the desert is standing out in the middle of nowhere late at night and just looking up at the night sky. Some people say that the skies are clearer in the desert, but I don’t think that’s true. I think it’s because it’s in the middle of nowhere far from lots of light pollution.

All the lights from homes, business, cars and just about every other source of light creates a night sky that is not nearly as dark as it used to be. All of it is light pollution and it’s getting worse. Light pollution costs us money because it is very wasteful of electricity. For me, I don’t like it because it ruins night star gazing.

The sky is much lighter now than it was when I was a kid. I live in a city and I can’t even go outside at night and see any more than the moon and a few other stars. I have never really had the opportunity to take my kids out just to look at the stars like my father did with me.

Harmony, Florida has decided to do something about that. On April 5th, they will kick off their 5th Annual Dark Sky Festival. During the week of the festival, they will be encouraging better lighting practices. At the festival, several speakers will talk about he problems of light pollution and solutions that protect our night sky and save money. There will be a kids zone for children to learn and have fun. No festival is complete without music and that’s why organizers have invited Rare Earth to perform.

That’s all good, but the the most important part of the festival is the chance to see the stars. There will be telescopes set up for people to view the night sky. People can reacquaint themselves with the beauty of the night sky.

I have been looking at some interesting statistics lately. I know people keep saying that global warming is a fact and it’s fact that it’s caused by humans altering their environment. I’m sorry but I have always been a skeptic and lately my skepticism has been growing.

It seems that global temperatures have actually been leveling off over the last 5 years. This is interesting because it goes against what the models are predicting. Another interesting tidbit is that global temperatures are not nearly as high as during 1000 to 1200 AD. If you recall from your high school history classes, during this time the Vikings colonized and had farms on Greenland.

Meaning Greenland was much warmer then than now…..maybe we are just having a natural climate cycle after all.

If you are doing any research on how literature dealt with the subject of Mars and comparison to what we know now about mars, you would be wise to visit Universal Value Exchange and check out the two part series on Mars Literature Vs Reality.

It explores some of the literature in the science fiction genre and how it relates to what we know now from various successful expeditions to Mars. I enjoy studying about this aspect of science. It’s almost like an intersection of science with culture. It’s very powerful and definitely will give you a reason to chuckle. It’s worth a read, I know I wrote it. Enjoy!

I enjoy studying the stars and astronomy in general. I’ve had this interest since I was a young boy and my father put me in the Wistec Astronomy Summer Camp in Eugene, Oregon. We got to spend several hours a day in the planetarium learning about stars and many other astronomy topics. This lifelong interest has been augmented by finding used telescopes and used binoculars for sale and viewing stars in various places around the world. I have also tried my best to keep up on big events and news in astronomy, but it hasn’t been the easy, until recently.

Astromart is great website for getting news on astronomy, classifieds, auctions, and reviews. You can find great buys on new and use astronomy equipment, including refractive telescopes, reflexive telescopes, binoculars, star charts and many other products that enrich the study of astronomy. If you are interested in astronomy, I’d check them out today.