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Osher LIfelong Learning Institute

Retirement can be scary. Library worker hoping the end of his career will be the start of a happy new chapter

Seventy-one-year-old Richard Marino is on the cusp of retirement. And it’s making him anxious.  He’s gone through other transitions, from coming out as gay, moving from his family home in the Bronx to New York’s East Village, and then leaving New York City for San Francisco. He traded a rambunctious gay lifestyle for a rather ...

Teaching children, students and adults about planets, black holes and asteroids is this astronomer’s true calling

January 9, 2022 All Posts 3 Comments

Famous people and even not-so-famous people in San Francisco have streets named after them. But Andrew Fraknoi, a well-known science educator and astronomer, goes those long-dead presidents, generals, and madams one better: He’s the only person in the city to have an asteroid named after him. The International Astronomical Union dubbed a hunk of space rock ...

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