From Team Groovy, Happy Valentine's Day. #ChemIsTry #ILuvU

Celebrate #EngineersWeek2016: #TBT Hedy Lamarr is famous as a glamorous movie star from the black-and-white era of film. But what most people don't know about her is that, in 1942, she co-invented a device that helped make possible the development of GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi technology! Born in Austria in 1914, the mathematically talented Lamarr moved to the US in 1937 to start a #Hollywood career. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, she was considered one of cinema's leading ladies and made numerous films; however, her passion for engineering is far less known today. Her interest in inventing was such that she set up an #engineering room in her house complete with a drafting table and wall of engineering reference books. With the outbreak of World War II, Lamarr wanted to apply her skills to helping the war effort and, motivated by reports of German U-boats sinking ships in the Atlantic, she began investigating ways to improve torpedo technology. After Lamar met composer George Antheil, who had been experimenting with automated control of #musical instruments, together they hit on the idea of "frequency hopping." At the time, radio-controlled torpedoes could easily be detected and jammed by broadcasting interference at the frequency of the control signal, thereby causing the #torpedo to go off course. Lamarr and Antheil were granted a patent for their invention on August 11, 1942, but the US #Navy wasn't interested in applying their groundbreaking technology until twenty years later when it was used on #military ships during a blockade of Cuba in 1962. Lamarr and Antheil's frequency-hopping concept serves as a basis for the spread-spectrum communication #technology used in #GPS, #WiFi and #Bluetooth devices. Unfortunately, Lamarr's part in its development has been largely overlooked and her efforts weren't recognized until 1997, when the Electronic Frontier Foundation gave her an award for her technological contributions. Hedy Lamarr passed away in 2000 at the age of 85 and, in 2014, she was at long last inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for her invention of a "Secret Communication System" many years ago. Text credit: A Mighty Girl #HedyLamarr

Trailer for COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey, a 13-part docu-series debuting in 2014 on FOX! http://bit.ly/15HlHpY

HAPPY #PALINDROME WEEK! The next 10 days are #palindromes, meaning the date reads the same backward as forward. https://www.instagram.com/p/B2QcPnPhK94/?igshid=1nnnlp5vj9b0m

Check out the latest Martin Jetpack prototype P12 – doesn’t it look awesome! The Martin Jetpack can take off from a small space, so is easy to deploy anywhere. It is easy to learn to fly, has an automated hover function, and is expected to be able to be flown in reasonable weather conditions. Martin Jetpack website - http://bit.ly/16x5709 NPR interview with CEO Peter Coker - http://n.pr/16T6KBI

#STEMist News Alert: World Environment Day on June 5th is the United Nations day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect our environment. Link in bio. @UNEnvironment #BeatAirPollution #WorldEnvironmentDay #AirPollution #STEMeducation #STEMforKids #yearroundhomeschooling https://www.instagram.com/groovylabinabox/p/ByTmHcEBmZ9/?igshid=1jje7dwys3ipr

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Today is groovy #PeriodicTableDay! Dmitri Mendeleev - Father of the Periodic Table A Russian chemist and #STEMist. He formulated the Periodic Law, created his own version of the periodic table of elements, and used it to correct the properties of some already discovered elements and also to predict the properties of eight elements yet to be discovered. "I saw in a dream a table where all elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper, only in one place did a correction later seem necessary." - Mendeleev, as quoted by Inostrantzev After him was named mendelevium, which is a synthetic chemical element with the symbol Md (formerly Mv) and the atomic number 101. It is a metallic radioactive transuranic element in the actinide series, usually synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles. A large lunar impact crater Mendeleev that is located on the far side of the Moon, as seen from the Earth, also bears the name of the scientist. #PeriodicTable #DmitriMendeleev #Mendeleev

“I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.” – John Glenn Planning your summer vacation? Be sure to check out these groovy aviation museums with your #STEMists! http://www.groovylabinabox.com/6-kid-friendly-u-s-aviation-museums/ #aviation #museums #flying #STEM

Marvel and actor Natalie Portman have launched a mentoring competition for girls interested in science, technology, engineering and/or maths. The program links high school girls with successful women in science who can provide advice and answer their career questions. Natalie Portman has always been a vocal ambassador for the sciences - she has a degree in psychology from Harvard University and was a semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search. Unfortunately this competition is only open to girls in the US, but we think it's a great initiative that will hopefully inspire women AND men worldwide to pursue a career in science. Find out more in Phil Plait's blog for Slate.com http://slate.me/19t48iW. Original image: John Mira Tip of the Hat: ScienceAlert http://on.fb.me/19t4i9V

View launch WEBCAST: Countdown to First Virginia Coast Launch of LADEE to the Moon Webcast: http://bit.ly/1dDZEpv NASA is making final preparations to launch a Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) at 11:27 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 6, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. Follow LADEE's latest news at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility: http://1.usa.gov/1dDZQVG