women in science
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All We Can Save Redefines ‘We’ in the Climate Fight
The how-to-fix-it climate genre has become an increasingly crowded space in nonfiction publishing these days. From Eric Holthaus’ Future Earth to Christiana Figueres’ and Tom Carnac’s The Future We Choose, the roadmap to fixing the damage done to the climate is being filled in. All We Can Save is the latest entry into the field,…
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The Woman Who Turned Psychological Testing Into A Science
“I don’t have time for this,” psychologist Anne Anastasi reportedly said in 1987, before hanging up the phone on a call from Ronald Reagan’s White House. The call, according to Harold Takooshian, a psychology professor at Fordham University, was to inform her that she had won the first National Medal of Science for psychology. It…
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NASA Renames Facility To Honour ‘Hidden Figures’ Subject Katherine Johnson
NASA has changed the name of a facility in Fairmont, West Virginia to the “Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility,” in honour of the retired NASA mathematician.
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A Black Female Astrophysicist Explains Why Hidden Figures Isn’t Just About History
First, it beat Star Wars: Rogue One. Now, for the second weekend since its wide-release debut in the US, Hidden Figures — the true story of three black female mathematicians at NASA — is number one at the US box office. It’s raked in roughly $US60 million ($79 million) so far, and counting — and…