I started my weekly asbestos history blogs on December 16, 2020. Just over two years later, the total has reached 100. Hopefully, you find them interesting, informative, and thought provoking. For those of you who have joined me after the beginning or who have specific topics of interest, I am listing the blogs in the…
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The below asbestos historical discussion contained in the July 1997 edition of Scientific American in “Asbestos Revisited” by James Alleman and Brooks Mossman discusses the ancient mineral background in much more detail than typical similar discourses and is worthy of a blog. That being said, the article contains one significant mistake: Pages 74-75 at the…
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I am taking this week off to be with family. I looked through my 70 plus blogs over the last year and one-half, and decided to re-post the one which I believe is the most thought provoking: my Challenger tragedy research. You can find it at https://theasbestosblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Space-Shuttle-Challenger-Thesis-1282022.pdf. This is my first of three such research…
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Since I started blogging when I entered my Master’s in History program, I have blogged 64 times. As it is tough to track these blogs, below is a total listing with links. I plan to continue this work as I focus my research on asbestos exposures to shipbreakers and then expand this work to ship…
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Asbestos related lawsuits in the United States make it difficult and expensive to effectively use social media to communicate about asbestos related issues, such as my recent thesis on the failure of the Space Shuttle Challenger’s asbestos containing putty. If you haven’t yet read my thesis, you can find it at https://theasbestosblog.com/?p=9723. This disconnect with…
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Thank you for joining me. You can find my thesis dated January 28, 2022, thirty-six years after the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy, to review or download at: https://theasbestosblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Space-Shuttle-Challenger-Thesis-1282022.pdf I have titled the thesis “Space Shuttle Challenger January 28, 1986 Tragedy: 36 Years Later, A Retrospective on Causation and Moral Injuries.” Please feel free to share…
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I received my final documents from NASA under a Freedom of Information Act request that I sent in October 2021 as part of my Masters Thesis dealing with the Space Shuttle Challenger. One of my focuses in the paper was to address whether the statement that “the Challenger tragedy on January 28, 1986 was caused…
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Having submitted my Master of History thesis on the Space Shuttle Challenger (we have three theses in this program, so don’t get excited), I decided to join the ultimate challenge for either an attorney or a historian; brevity. I need to condense my 74 pages down to a one page slide supported by a three…
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We went live with this website and blog one year ago as I was morphing from an attorney to a student of history. I could not be happier with the transition in regards to what I do on a day to day basis and the new friends and professionals with whom I get to hang…
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As I previously mentioned, my research into the Challenger Disaster has been aided by a Clark-Yudkin Research Fellowship from the US Air Force Academy Library, Special Collections. As I used their resources this week, let me tell you about a kid in a candy shop. First, you may ask, is why would this Library have…
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