Neil Davis
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Neil Davis is emeritus professor of geophysics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Auroral studies using rocket, photographic and television techniques have been the main thrust of his scientific efforts at the University of Alaska, and with NASA, but he has worked in other fields as well, mehr anzeigen including seismology and radio communications. In 1976 he began a regular newspaper column illuminating aspects of science for the general public weniger anzeigen
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- Geburtstag
- 1932
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Wohnorte
- Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
- Ausbildung
- University of Alaska, Fairbanks (PhD ∙ geophysics)
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- T. Neil Davis is a professor emeritus of geophysics from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the author of several books. Born in Greeley, Colorado, Davis spent most of his working career at the Geophysical Institute, pioneering the use of all-sky and low-level light cameras for the study of the aurora borealis and conducting rocket studies of the aurora. With Masahisa Sugiura (while both were at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) he introduced the AE (auroral electrojet) index now commonly used as a measure of solar-terrestrial interaction. A student of Beno Gutenberg and Charles Richter at Caltech, he also has done work in observational seismology.
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Rockets Over Alaska: The Genesis of Poker Flat von Neil Davis
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When 8 rumbunctious boys from the village of Cowgate form a tight group, they get to experience life's teaching moments with many a hilarious result. Here are a collection of childhood memories, as told by individuals in the group. It's a collection of the best times of their boyhood lives.
The stories aren't told in any particular order, but they trace the boys' lives between the ages of 15 - 17, from stealing a friend's Walkman and dropping it in an airplane toilet, to gatecrashing weddings so they can eat all they want at the buffets, to the mishaps that can happen on a camping trip, to breaking into a friend's house just to use the bathroom and scaring the current user of the bath in the process, to dealing with the death of loved grandparents, to noticing girls as attractive humans rather than aliens for the first time.
The stories are endearing, hopeful and most of all, loudly celebrate the innocence of youth.… (mehr)
The stories aren't told in any particular order, but they trace the boys' lives between the ages of 15 - 17, from stealing a friend's Walkman and dropping it in an airplane toilet, to gatecrashing weddings so they can eat all they want at the buffets, to the mishaps that can happen on a camping trip, to breaking into a friend's house just to use the bathroom and scaring the current user of the bath in the process, to dealing with the death of loved grandparents, to noticing girls as attractive humans rather than aliens for the first time.
The stories are endearing, hopeful and most of all, loudly celebrate the innocence of youth.… (mehr)
Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.The story itself is close to the author's heart and he does a thorough job of retelling personal experiences of navigating health care (experiences which offer disturbing anecdotal evidence about the problems of the system in Alaska). However, there are places in which I wish there had been a bit more intensive editing, and this book won't really work for what the author seems to be attempting--a systems-level critique of the American health care project.
Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.I highly recommend this book; it enraged me. It's a great, in-depth look at just how powerful the "healthcare" lobby in the US is, and is a great argument for the public healthcare option being considered by the current administration.
While the story of the book is about how the man writing it went about getting care for his cancer-stricken, uninsured adult daughter, the research he did in pursuit of that brings to light some very chilling things about the US system of medicine.
One of the things that struck me hardest was this: the US government spent millions of dollars researching and developing taxol, one of the most common cancer drugs in use today. In some truly horrifying and probably illegal sleight-of-hand, the decades of research, production, marketing and even the generic name was turned over to for-profit pharmaceutical giant, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, in a way that did not benefit either the US government or the US people. Further, all federal supplies of the source ingredient (the Pacific yew tree) were also granted to BMS for nearly no cost. This company then produced & marketed the drug to make billions. Worse, even the US government programs (Medicare & VA) had to pay full price to use the drug for their patients.
Bristol-Meyers Squibb & the US government conspired to screw US citizens & cancer patients completely over.
Again, I highly recommend this book, but be prepared to be angry when reading it, and to have your view of our medical industry significantly changed.… (mehr)
While the story of the book is about how the man writing it went about getting care for his cancer-stricken, uninsured adult daughter, the research he did in pursuit of that brings to light some very chilling things about the US system of medicine.
One of the things that struck me hardest was this: the US government spent millions of dollars researching and developing taxol, one of the most common cancer drugs in use today. In some truly horrifying and probably illegal sleight-of-hand, the decades of research, production, marketing and even the generic name was turned over to for-profit pharmaceutical giant, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, in a way that did not benefit either the US government or the US people. Further, all federal supplies of the source ingredient (the Pacific yew tree) were also granted to BMS for nearly no cost. This company then produced & marketed the drug to make billions. Worse, even the US government programs (Medicare & VA) had to pay full price to use the drug for their patients.
Bristol-Meyers Squibb & the US government conspired to screw US citizens & cancer patients completely over.
Again, I highly recommend this book, but be prepared to be angry when reading it, and to have your view of our medical industry significantly changed.… (mehr)
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