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Breaking Through the Clouds: The Sometimes Turbulent Life of Meteorologist Joanne Simpson by Sandra Nickel ill. Helena Perez Garcia

March 21, 2022 By achuka 1 Comment

ACHUKA Book of the Day 22 Mar 2022

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An inspiring picture book about the meteorologist whose discoveries helped us understand how weather works.

When Joanne Simpson (1923-2010) was a girl, she sailed her boat beneath the puffy white clouds of Cape Cod. As a pilot, she flew her plane so high, its wings almost touched them. And when World War II began and Joanne moved to the University of Chicago, a professor asked her to teach Air Force officers about those very clouds and the weather-changing winds.
As soon as the war ended, Joanne decided to seriously study the clouds she had grown to love so much. Her professors laughed. They told her to go home. They told her she was no longer needed. They told her, “No woman ever got a doctorate in meteorology. And no woman ever will.”
But Joanne was stubborn. She sold her boat. She flew her last flight. She saved her money so that she could study clouds. She worked so hard and discovered so much that-despite what the professors said-she received a doctorate in meteorology. She was the first woman in the world to do so.
Breaking Through the Clouds tells the story of a trailblazing scientist whose discoveries about clouds and how they work changed everything we know about weather today.

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Timelapse Photographer Michael Shainblum Talks About His Art & His Dyslexia

December 18, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

Early on in my life I was diagnosed with dyslexia, and some other learning difficulties. It’s hard as a kid seeing everyone else doing so well at everything, and you just can’t. So the way I found myself as a person was through art. I just loved taking pictures… MICHAEL SHAINBLUm

 

Filed Under: Blog, Photography/Art Tagged With: art, clouds, dyslexia, photography, sky, stars, timelapse

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