Tuesday, July 24, 2018
WOW! Black Girl Magic!
An excerpt from BlackAmericaWeb -
Meet The First Black Woman To Earn A PhD In Nuclear Engineering From MIT
By Jamai Harris
30-year-old Mareena Robinson Snowden walked across the commencement stage at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on June 8 and became the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the university.
https://blackamericaweb.com/2018/07/24/meet-the-first-black-woman-to-earn-a-phd-in-nuclear-engineering-from-mit/
Meet The First Black Woman To Earn A PhD In Nuclear Engineering From MIT
By Jamai Harris
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30-year-old Mareena Robinson Snowden walked across the commencement stage at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on June 8 and became the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the university.
https://blackamericaweb.com/2018/07/24/meet-the-first-black-woman-to-earn-a-phd-in-nuclear-engineering-from-mit/
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“I’m a German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose,” wrote Mr. Ozil, who was born in Germany to parents who had immigrated from Turkey.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/world/europe/mesut-ozil-germany-soccer.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/world/europe/mesut-ozil-germany-soccer.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Monday, July 23, 2018
We Should All Know Her
An excerpt from Wired -
MEET THE WOMAN WHO ROCKED PARTICLE PHYSICS—THREE TIMES
By JOSHUA ROEBKE
IN 1963, MARIA Goeppert Mayer won the Nobel Prize in physics for describing the layered, shell-like structures of atomic nuclei. No woman has won since.
One of the many women who, in a different world, might have won the physics prize in the intervening 55 years is Sau Lan Wu. Wu is the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an experimentalist at CERN, the laboratory near Geneva that houses the Large Hadron Collider. Wu’s name appears on more than 1,000 papers in high-energy physics, and she has contributed to a half-dozen of the most important experiments in her field over the past 50 years. She has even realized the improbable goal she set for herself as a young researcher: to make at least three major discoveries.
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-woman-who-rocked-particle-physicsthree-times/?mbid=nl_072318_daily_list_p
MEET THE WOMAN WHO ROCKED PARTICLE PHYSICS—THREE TIMES
By JOSHUA ROEBKE
IN 1963, MARIA Goeppert Mayer won the Nobel Prize in physics for describing the layered, shell-like structures of atomic nuclei. No woman has won since.
One of the many women who, in a different world, might have won the physics prize in the intervening 55 years is Sau Lan Wu. Wu is the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an experimentalist at CERN, the laboratory near Geneva that houses the Large Hadron Collider. Wu’s name appears on more than 1,000 papers in high-energy physics, and she has contributed to a half-dozen of the most important experiments in her field over the past 50 years. She has even realized the improbable goal she set for herself as a young researcher: to make at least three major discoveries.
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-woman-who-rocked-particle-physicsthree-times/?mbid=nl_072318_daily_list_p
Say What?
An excerpt from the Washington Post -
Why some accents don’t work on Alexa or Google Home
By Drew Harwell
Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant are spearheading a voice-activated revolution, rapidly changing the way millions of people around the world learn new things and plan their lives.
But for people with accents — even the regional lilts, dialects and drawls native to various parts of the United States — the artificially intelligent speakers can seem very different: inattentive, unresponsive, even isolating. For many across the country, the wave of the future has a bias problem, and it’s leaving them behind.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/classic-apps/why-some-accents-dont-work-on-alexa-or-google-home/2018/07/19/80e33222-855f-11e8-8f6c-46cb43e3f306_story.html?utm_term=.d89f2840cf04
Why some accents don’t work on Alexa or Google Home
By Drew Harwell
Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant are spearheading a voice-activated revolution, rapidly changing the way millions of people around the world learn new things and plan their lives.
But for people with accents — even the regional lilts, dialects and drawls native to various parts of the United States — the artificially intelligent speakers can seem very different: inattentive, unresponsive, even isolating. For many across the country, the wave of the future has a bias problem, and it’s leaving them behind.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/classic-apps/why-some-accents-dont-work-on-alexa-or-google-home/2018/07/19/80e33222-855f-11e8-8f6c-46cb43e3f306_story.html?utm_term=.d89f2840cf04
Sunday, July 22, 2018
Again and Again and Again
This is what it's like for a black business owner in a gentrifying SF neighborhood: Racist graffiti and calls to the police for unlocking your own store. pic.twitter.com/F9lVsIaKM7— AJ+ (@ajplus) July 20, 2018
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