“Obviously Bold.” A Feminist Generation Keeps Marching

“Obviously Bold.” A Feminist Generation Keeps Marching

Pod­cast tran­scripts Wel­come to Math! Sci­ence! His­to­ry! I’m Gabrielle Bir­chak, your host. For Women’s His­to­ry Month, I want­ed to fea­ture one bril­liant thing, one clean win, and one woman whose work still qui­et­ly runs the world, even if most of us do not real­ize it. Today’s “one bril­liant thing” was a sort­ing sys­tem. A clas­si­fi­ca­tion scheme. A way to take the universe,

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Black Holes from Theory to Reality

Black Holes from Theory to Reality

This post con­tains a spon­sored link. I have received com­pen­sa­tion for includ­ing it in this post. Imag­ine a place in the uni­verse where time stops, where space folds into itself, and where not even light can escape. A place that devours every­thing, mat­ter, radi­a­tion, even infor­ma­tion. Now imag­ine the sci­en­tists who tried to explain it… and were laughed at, ignored, or

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