Kristen Rogers looked at the people of colour involved in NASA’s history for CNN including Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr. and Dr. Mae Jemison.
Urban Coders Guild are empowering their students to digitally rebuild Tulsa’s Black Wall Street
The non-profit organisation is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma and provides STEM education to middle and high school students from underrepresented communities.
Tshepo Dipheko and his chemistry in the kitchen
Delicious chemistry indeed!
Discriminator: an interactive documentary about facial recognition algorithms trained on Flickr's facial database
Webcam on!
Black women made $0.90 for every $1 a white man in the same tech role made last year
A ~3.45% increase on last year’s figure
Science Shouldn’t Come at the Expense of Black Lives
Science should help, not hinder.
Imperial College London to launch a mentoring scheme for Black students
The scheme is said to cost around £20m.
Links about the 2021 solar eclipse
And not a Jaffa Cake in sight!
Can a black hole suck in another black hole?
You won’t BELIEVE the answer!
Nicoline Sørensen on women’s soccer and engineering
Sørensen is a remote student at the Technical University of Denmark and speaks four languages.
What Danny Guo learned by relearning HTML
HTML does not stand for HoTMachineLearning.
Virtues of a roundabout
And not a Zebedee in sight!
Tipping the balance for Black engineering
‘Approximately 1.6 million individuals work in engineering, but only 3% of those are Black/African American women or Latinx women.’
Remember when Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion in 2008?
Imagine if Microsoft had actually been successful.
A viral history of viruses
Thanks, French guy who made milk safer to drink and a bunch of other important immunologists!
TIL: Louis Vuitton once 'made' a handheld computer
The 2000s were a wild time for fashion and tech.
Hospitals in Osaka, Japan are struggling with new COVID-19 wave
It’s not looking good for Japan right now.
Marcia Wendorf on F1's changes since 1950
For Interesting Engineering, Marcia Wendorf examined how much Formula 1 has changed over the last 60 years.
What can you do after you've had the COVID-19 vaccine?
The pandemic isn’t over just because you’re over it. But there are things you can do after you’ve had your jab(s) to keep yourself and everyone else safe.
Can DOS viruses ruin modern PCs? Yes.
For some viruses, there’s no escape.