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Centre Wheeling’s Dinosaur Named After Scientist

Phyllis Sigal
February 26, 2020
Wheeling, meet Gideon — the T. rex that can be seen bursting through the second-floor window at the SMART Centre Market. "The name ‘Gideon’ won by a nose,” said Robert E. Strong who, along with his wife Libb...

Couple Makes Strong Case for Dinosaur Project, Wins By a Head at Show of Hands

Phyllis Sigal
October 23, 2019
What do you call a T. rex who can’t accept defeat? ... A “saur” — (sore!) — loser. Well, that wasn’t the case for Robert and Libby Strong, proprietors of SMART Centre Market, who pitched their “dino-mite” pr...

A VIEW FROM THE MOON: First Footprints on the Moon — 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11

Robert E. Strong
July 20, 2019
For untold generations, human beings had looked at the moon and wondered ... What was it? Was it a God? Was it a place? What was it made of? Did anyone or anything live there? Only poets, writers, philosophers ...

A VIEW FROM THE MOON: SMART-Center Turns 25 — 50 Years Ago (Part 2)

Robert E. Strong
May 28, 2019
Recap: In Part 1, we find my youthful 10-year-old self, 50 years my present-day junior, has been called to the principal’s office without apparent reason or explanation. Worried I had done something wrong I was...

A VIEW FROM THE MOON: SMART-Center Turns 25 — 50 Years Ago (Part 1)

Robert E. Strong
April 30, 2019
In elementary school, I labored under the common misconception that persists with most youngsters unabated to this day. I thought that “Science” is the accumulation of random facts and figures about a field of ...

A VIEW FROM THE MOON: Big Idea — The Fractional Gravity Experiment (Part 3)

Robert E. Strong
February 27, 2019
(Editor’s note: In the last two weeks, we read about the Big Idea (Part 1) and Big Idea (Part 2). Today, Robert E. Strong wraps things up. Did his "Big Idea" make the cut? Read on ... ) For over third of a c...

A VIEW FROM THE MOON: Big Idea — The Fractional Gravity Experiment (Part 2)

Robert E. Strong
February 19, 2019
(Editor's note: Last week we read about the Big Idea (Part 1). Today, Robert E. Strong recaps that article and moves on to Part 2.) As a recap from Big Idea: The Fractional Gravity Experiment (Part 1): ...

A VIEW FROM THE MOON: Big Idea — The Fractional Gravity Experiment (Part 1)

Robert E. Strong
February 12, 2019
It is always amazing to me how a single small event can alter trajectories that appear to be set firmly on a specific course. Perhaps our perceived life’s course is an illusion. The idea that we are set on a ce...

A VIEW FROM THE MOON: The Golden Anniversary of the Apollo 8 Earthrise Image

Robert E. Strong
December 15, 2018
1
For the vast majority of the human tenure on this planet, the surface of the Earth — or very near the surface — was the sole domain of human direct first-hand experience of the universe. Other than the occasion...

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