Jess Romeo
Science Writer at Freelance
Associate Editor at Scholastic News
Senior associate editor @Scholastic Science World | [email protected] | she/her
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Apr 29, 2024 |
newsbreak.com | Jess Romeo
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Apr 29, 2024 |
bigthink.com | Jess Romeo
In the late 1970s, a team of karate-loving physicists decided to perform an experiment inspired by their collective passion for martial arts. The group was made up of physicist Michael Feld, a brown belt who liked to illustrate the physics of karate via live demonstrations to his classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ronald McNair, future astronaut and fifth-degree black belt; and undergraduate Stephen Wilk.
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Apr 2, 2024 |
bigthink.com | Jess Romeo
The human body is not well-suited for flight. We’re somehow both bulky and gangly, with legs that kick and flail once they leave the ground. Our anatomy is not built to glide through the air—or even fall gracefully. We’ve tried to game nature with kites and gliders and wax wings. But no amount of self-flapping could lift us off the earth. So imagine the excitement in the 1950s, when the Army contacted Bell Aerospace Corporation to develop a device that would realize this fantastical idea.
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Mar 30, 2024 |
bigthink.com | Jess Romeo
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has gone by a slew of different names over the years: organic drivenness, minimal brain dysfunction, hyperkinesis, hyperactive syndrome, attention deficit disorder, and ADHD. ADHD was originally thought of as “minimal brain dysfunction,” according to scholar Robert Erk.
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Jan 7, 2022 |
daily.jstor.org | Jess Romeo
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