My Clutch Of Chicks Came Today

Elaine Meinel Supkis

March 2006

My baby chicks picked their way out of their blue egg shells. The people hatching them in Texas then put them all in a small cardboard box with some shavings to keep them warm and sent them, only a few hours old, to my farm in New York.

Germans Use Laser Cutters To Manufacture Glasses For Flies

Elaine Meinel Supkis

German technicians used a laser cutter to make microscopic dark glasses for a fly. It is amazing what laser technology can do, my father founded one of the very first scientific institutes devoted only to laser and optic research, the Meinel Optical Sciences Center at the University of Arizona.