Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Sheila Scott: Record-Setting Pilot

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Sheila Scott (27 April 1922 – 20 October 1988) was an amazing pilot who broke over 100 aviation records during her career, and was the f...
Monday, December 21, 2020

Adele Goldstine - pioneering programmer

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I've been doing some reading lately about the women who programmed the ENIAC computer, and was thrilled to learn that these six amazing...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Marian Wright Edelman and trying your best

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I've been thinking about what inspires social justice activists to continue fighting when it feels like there's always more work to...
Thursday, November 8, 2018

Katharine Burr Blodgett

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Katharine Burr Blodgett (January 10, 1898 – October 12, 1979) was the first woman to to earn a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cam...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Edith Quimby - pioneering medical physicist

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In the early decades of the 20th century scientists around the world were busy looking for ways to use radioactive materials. Following ...
Monday, May 7, 2018

Science Fair Rock Stars: Mikayla Sharrieff, India Skinner, and Bria Snell

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High school juniors Mikayla Sharrieff, India Skinner, and Bria Snell have been in the news quite a bit in the last week, but the articles ...
Friday, May 4, 2018

Eugenie Clark and the power of passion

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I wonder how many scientific discoveries have been made by people who were just curious about a subject and wanted to know more about it? ...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Aggretsuko - adorable badass

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Yesterday I was logging into Netflix to watch my current obsession ( Offspring , a charming comedy-drama from Australia), and saw an inte...
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