That’s a wrap! Thank you everyone who attended the #VotingVillage2019. Here’s some things our attendees discovered this year. Please look forward to our full report in the fall and special thanks to our hackers and scribes for all their hard work.
We have an official green light for our "Lucy" mission, launching in 2021. Lucy will complete a 12-year journey to primitive asteroids orbiting Jupiter, where we'll learn about planetary origins and the formation of the solar system. Read more: go.nasa.gov/2Qhluar
If all the cattle in the world joined together to start their own country, they would be the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Here are four more mind-blowing facts about climate change: b-gat.es/2PaHLK0
Albert Einstein met fellow Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore at his home in Berlin #OnThisDay in 1930. The two distinguished minds explored the concepts of science, religion, consciousness, and philosophy.
Read an excerpt from their conversation: goo.gl/jYc9Kp
With two of my kids graduating this year, I went back and found the speech I gave at my own high school commencement. Decades later, I still stand by what I said. Here’s the last page. #TBT
SOLVED: A super-charged mystery at the Van Allen belts.
Scientists recent ID of the culprit behind energized particles at Earth's radiation belts may help them better understand space weather — and thus protect our technology in space. Discover how: go.nasa.gov/2J1KtPF
PAPER
"Von Neumann’s First Computer Program" by Donald Knuth
In 1945 Von Neumann wrote a sorting algorithm for the EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer)
This sorting algorithm later became known as Merge sort
Paper here: fermatslibrary.com/s/von-neumanns…
Today is the 311th year since the birth of Leonhard Euler. Euler published more than 500 books and papers during his lifetime, while 400 more appeared after his death.
How far is the farthest star we've ever seen? More than halfway across the universe, an enormous blue star was spotted by @NASAHubble through a quirk of nature that amplified the star's feeble glow, which has taken 9 billion years to reach Earth. Details: go.nasa.gov/2uM9VSr
60 years ago today (at this exact minute) a very special patent was signed, and the LEGO brick was born! Oh, how time flies when you’re having fun! 😊 #HappyBirthdayBrick ❤️ 🎉