Getting Better, VIII

I won’t go as far as the New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof, who said that “2017 was the best year in human history,” but I’m all about celebrating these items from Future Crunch’s 99 reasons 2017 was a great year: Cancer deaths have dropped by 25% in the United States since 1991, saving more than

Sisters of the Sun

Henry Draper was a physician, but his passion was astronomy. At age 36, he left his positions as professor and dean of medicine at New York University to spend more time working in his observatory in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. On Henry Draper’s death in 1882, Harvard Observatory director Edward Pickering informed Anna Palmer Draper that