Ricardo
I've been enjoying season 2 of the Future Imperfect podcast. The latest episode was really fun, full of #history and #mythBusting about the #MiddleAges
What's the oldest pub in England? - Future Imperfect | Acast
https://shows.acast.com/future-imperfect/episodes/whats-the-oldest-pub-in-england
Ricardo
The story behind the Stern-Gerlach Experiment: Reality is complicated...
How Cheap Cigars Legitimized Quantum Mechanics | SciShow
https://youtu.be/Mo1v8P7l4I4
#physics #history #science #education
Ricardo
From the cover of Vogue to Hitler's bathtub: Lee Miller | Great Art Explained
https://youtu.be/Azyz3Gr2Ivc
#photography #art #history
Sheril Kirshenbaum
Pioneering geologist & oceanographer Marie Tharp changed our understanding of the ocean.
When Tharp sought a geology job at Columbia in 1948, women couldn’t go on research ships. So she was hired to assist male grad students.
Back then, many scientists still assumed the bottom of the ocean was featureless. Tharp figured out how to use data to create sketches of the ocean floor. Her hand-drawn maps helped develop plate tectonic theory. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/marie-tharp #science #history
CarveHerName
Over on the blog we talk about how there is no known photo of Charlotte E Ray, but that doesn't stop people using photos of other, real Black women from history and claiming they are Ray. We've used illustrations instead.
#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistory
https://carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-e-ray-and-143-years-of-progress/
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CarveHerName
#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Marie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.
The Academy originally planned to award only Pierre and Henri Becquerel. Pierre insisted that Marie should also be included.
nixCraft 🐧
How SSH port became the default TCP/22
https://www.ssh.com/academy/ssh/port#the-story-of-getting-ssh-port-22 #linux #unix #history
Ricardo
The Most Useful Curve in Mathematics | Welch Labs
CarveHerName
#OnThisDay, 13 Jan 1976, Sarah Caldwell takes up the baton at the New York Met Opera, becoming the first woman to conduct an opera there.
CarveHerName
#OnThisDay, 7 Jan 1939, French physicist Marguerite Perey discovers element 87, which she later names francium. It was the last element to be discovered naturally.
Perey was a student of Marie Curie, and was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize but never received it.
#WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM #ScienceHistory #History #Histodons
Sheril Kirshenbaum
“Man the Hunter has dominated the study of human evolution for nearly half a century & pervaded popular culture. [But] it was the arrival of agriculture that led to rigid gendered roles & economic inequality. Hunting belonged to everyone.”
The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt & Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong1/ #science #history
Sheril Kirshenbaum
Mary Anning was born in 1799 in Great Britain. Her family lived in poverty, selling fossils to make ends meet.
Scientists of Anning’s day could not believe that a poor young woman could posses her knowledge & talent. She has been described as 'the greatest fossilist the world ever knew' yet many people are still unaware of her incredible contributions.
The majority of Anning’s discoveries ended up in museums & collections without credit. https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/anning.html #science #history
Ricardo
They've outdone themselves with this one!
4.5 Billion Years in 1 Hour | Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7TUe5w6RHo
#science #history #Hearth #animation
Ricardo
To Scale: TIME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOVvEbH2GC0
#time #history #science
Sheril Kirshenbaum
“Vote NO on Woman Suffrage” 🙄
Not ancient #history, but just a century ago.
Source: State Archives of North Carolina
Ricardo
Maths, the answer is maths
Why Are We So Obsessed With X? | Be Smart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq_ZgV4OURI
#science #mathematics #history #algebra
Sheril Kirshenbaum
Alan Turing was a mathematician & cryptographer who was a leading code-breaker in the team that decrypted Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine during WWII. He inspired modern computing & what became AI.
Instead of being hailed as a genius & hero, Turing was convicted as a homosexual & forced to endure chemical castration. He died by suicide at 41 in 1954.
The British government didn’t apologize until 2009 & Queen Elizabeth II finally pardoned him in 2013. #history #science
Sheril Kirshenbaum
In 1916, 23 yr old chemist Alice Ball discovered a breakthrough in treatment for Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease). She was the 1st woman & 1st Black chemistry professor at UHawaii.
Tragically, Ball passed away months after her discovery due to complications from a lab accident.
What happened next? Arthur Dean, head of her dept, continued the work publishing Ball’s process as “Dean’s method.”
Fortunately, a colleague spoke up & the name was changed to “Ball’s method.” #HistoryRemix #science #history
Sheril Kirshenbaum
Evolution doesn’t look how it’s depicted in pop culture. We often picture the famous “March of Progress” illustration where a series of apes stand in line leading to a modern human.
But evolution is not linear. It branches & divides without an intended direction or endpoint through natural selection.
Ricardo
Warning: long but fascinating video!
Shocking History & Physics of AC Transformer | Kathy Loves Physics & History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4XVlWqXUTU
#Physics #history #electricity
BTW, if you're not subscribed to Kathy's channel yet, what's wrong with you!? 😜
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