Posts tagged ‘history’

She was a great humanizing influence upon the early Web and one of its ultra-connected nodes.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Branca Edmée Marques, sometime student of Marie Curie.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is early twentieth century archaeologist, Annette Laming-Emperaire.

Do women and startups mix? Was Battlestar Galactica that good? Is dressing up in Leia’s slave costume empowering? All linkspammed today.

A mathematics Olympian, 1960s computer programmers, a writer who is so sick of tokenism he’d rather be erased, and more!

Today’s xkcd comic is about Marie Curie, Lise Meitner, and Emmy Noether: “Just remember that if you want to do this stuff, you’re not alone.” Discuss. Transcript below the fold, courtesy of Cheryl Trooskin-Zoller:

Betsy Leondar-Wright and ana australiana write about the impenetrability of middle-class activism to working class people, and about how the sidelining of middle-class subcultures isn’t equivalent to systemic oppression: It’s not “them” — it’s us!, ...