MOMENTUM! Mentorship creates opportunities for everybody!

MOMENTUM! Mentorship creates opportunities for everybody!

Wel­come to Mon­day Momen­tum! I’m Gabrielle Bir­chak. I love physics, and one of the things that fas­ci­nates me is momen­tum, how things actu­al­ly move for­ward, whether it’s a fly­wheel, a steam engine, or a chain of gears. Noth­ing gets going with­out it. Life works the same way: ideas, skills, and oppor­tu­ni­ties don’t move for­ward unless momen­tum is cre­at­ed, pushed, pulled,

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Pride Month Stats: Facts speak louder than fear

Pride Month Stats: Facts speak louder than fear

It’s Flash­card Fri­days at Math! Sci­ence! His­to­ry!, the pod­cast where num­bers aren’t just facts, they’re frame­works for under­stand­ing our world. It is June, and we are kick­ing off Pride Month.  So let’s get our rain­bow flags and cel­e­brate our loved ones who are part of the LGBTQ com­mu­ni­ty. Though it is offi­cial­ly rec­og­nized in June in the Unit­ed States and

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The History and Future of Autodidacts and Citizen Scientists

The History and Future of Autodidacts and Citizen Scientists

Some of us go through life with gnaw­ing thoughts of “I always want­ed to be a _________.” If the word “sci­en­tist” ends this sen­tence for you, but you feel that your goal is out of reach, think again. You can still become a sci­en­tist, even with­out a Ph.D. and even with­out a col­lege edu­ca­tion. Many indi­vid­u­als, called auto­di­dacts, are active

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