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Women Killing It: Meet Christine Weber, Engineering SVP Driving The Future Of Live Streaming TV

Sally HubbardNovember 20, 2018

"I really don’t see specifically gender defining who I am. I want people to see me for me and for what I can offer and for what I can contribute." - Christine W...

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Real Talk With Astronaut Abby: How Women Deal With Their Periods In Space

wyskNovember 12, 2018

In 1983, as Sally Ride, the first American woman to go into space, was preparing for her history-making flight aboard the space shuttle Challenger, engineers as...

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Ada Lovelace And The Curious Practice Of Programming For Non-Existent Computers

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 1, 2018

What did Ada Lovelace do? She is one of the most fetishized scientists today - at conventions when I'm taking sketch commissions she ranks just behind Tesla ...

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Joann DiGennaro On Guiding Record Numbers Of Women Into STEM Careers Through Pioneering Programs

Guest ContributorOctober 26, 2018

Dr. Pam Taub, general cardiologist and associate professor of medicine at UC San Diego, who discovered that dark chocolate has a compound that can improve the m...

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Mars Needs Young Innovators: Woman-Founded, STEAM And Space Nonprofit Seeks Student Nominees For Annual Awards Program

wyskOctober 25, 2018

The Mars Generation, a non-profit founded in 2015 by then 18-year-old Abigail Harrison (aka Astronaut Abby), has quickly grown to become a global leader in exci...

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Girls Who Code Releases Music Video For Anthemic Rework Of 1970 Hit Song “Ooh Child”

wyskOctober 11, 2018

In celebration of this year’s International Day of the Girl, Girls Who Code, a national non-profit organization working to close the gender gap in technology, h...

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Lynn Conway and the VLSI Revolution in Microchip Design

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 10, 2018

Last week my stepfather, a retired electrical engineer, passed away at the age of 89, and in the boxes and boxes of papers he had kept as the signifiers of his ...

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Mary Somerville: Savior of British Mathematics

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 3, 2018

In the 1750s, when France was foundering scientifically in the Cartesian shallows, it took Emilie du Châtelet’s French translation of Newton’s Principia to rein...

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Let’s Help Make The Proposed Dr. Jane Goodall LEGO Set A Reality!

wyskSeptember 26, 2018

Over the years, we’ve been excited to see more women represented in the LEGO minifig world. Back in 2013 the company introduced us to Professor C. Bodin, LEGO's...

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