tale. The way he explained that he duct taped his hand and went about his day, in particular was flabbergasting. But he also implied that his superiors had some words with him about not bothering to mention he’d been shot! Apparently they like to know.

Remembering him and his family today.

chance to call home.

Because of this traumatic experience for her family the military clamped down on the reporting of any casualties and instituted rules to ensure families are always alerted first should a soldier be killed in action.

He was quite the storyteller and made this an entertaining

the door. For a full 48 hours they were left in limbo, hearing in the media that he was shot but hearing nothing from the military directly. The major meanwhile was in a period of no communication for entirely other reasons and had no idea his what his family were going through until he got a

correctly identified him to the media as a Canadian soldier who had been struck by a bullet.

Some of the media in Canada went ahead and reported this, complete with the fact that the military wasn’t commenting so they presumed he had died.

His wife heard when other military spouses showed up at

hatch, not the soldiers. But the bullet ricocheted off the hatch, then off the interior of the tank and then grazed his hand. He said there was blood but he could move it, so he duct taped his hand and went on with his day. He didn’t even think to tell the medic upon arrival.

Meanwhile someone

presumed dead.

He was a major serving as part of the UN peacekeeping forces in Sarejvo and in a tank as part of a convoy transferring from one region to another. The hatch was open and a sniper took a potshot at it. As he told me the story, it was simple intimidation. They knew they could hit the

At the Legion they have placed a net over their hedge covered in crocheted poppies

Her 1990 National Medal of Science was awarded both for her work on the electronic properties of materials and for expanding opportunities for women in science and engineering.

#printmaking #engineering #physics #carbon

band structure. The SFDD model (also named for her, R. Saito, M. Fujita and her husband Gene Dresselhaus) first predicted the band structure of carbon nanotubes.

As well as being an extraordinary scientist she was a strong advocate from women in physics and engineering.

graphite intercalation compounds, fullerenes (a form of carbon known as buckyballs, a soccer-ball like structure of bonded carbon atoms), spin-orbit coupling in semiconductors, thermoelectrics and band-structure. The Hicks-Dresselhaus Model (named after her) helped usher in the field of research on

From Canadian poet Dennis Lee’s marvellous children’s collection ‘Nicholas Knock and Other People”

Thank you! This version of the folktale will be all humans aboard.

But I am thinking of eventually making a print of one of those spooky-Christmasy-lougarou stories. I have an ongoing series of slightly sinister Yuletide prints.

I’m going to shake it off when I get a chance.

Lovely view of the lake!

I didn’t expect it, or at least not so much of it.

My thread literally says this. Not sure why you’re telling me this?

Lamarr’s & Antheil’s frequency-hopping idea serves as a basis for modern spread-spectrum #communications tech like WiFi #linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM