In high school Yvonne Brill was told by her physics teacher that women couldn’t amount to anything. At the University of Manitoba she was told that the engineering department wouldn’t admit women. Later, a colleague told her that she should expect to…
In high school Yvonne Brill was told by her physics teacher that women couldn’t amount to anything. At the University of Manitoba she was told that the engineering department wouldn’t admit women. Later, a colleague told her that she should expect to…
Sophie Kowalevski believed it was a mistake of the uninformed to confuse mathematics with arithmetic. Arithmetic was just a pile of “dry and arid” numbers to be multiplied and divided. Mathematics was a world of elegant possibilities that “demand[ed] the utmost imagination.”…
Hedy Lamarr knew what was expected of her, and be coming the inventor of a secret communication system—that would usher in technologies like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS—was not it. But no one really pegged her for a Hollywood film star, either. Lamarr…
There are some certain topics that we have not been neutral - and we can not - ever since the first day we established our publication platform. We admit that we are positively discriminating when it comes to these certain topics.…
