Also check these podcasts and audios:
- Lost Women of Science Podcast: The First Lady of EngineeringSeason 3, Episode 1
Yvonne Y. Clark, known as Y.Y. throughout her career, had a lifetime of groundbreaking achievements as a Black female mechanical engineer. The third season of the Lost Women of Science podcast begins at the start of her story, during her unconventional childhood in the segregated South
Women who launch Women who shattered glass ceilings (Audiobook) by Biographies of women creators, innovators, and leaders: Women Who Launch is filled with inspiring true stories of women activists, artists, and entrepreneurs who launched some of the most famous companies, brands, and organizations today and changed the world. It is at once a collection of biographies and a testament of female empowerment
Astrophysics for people in a hurry by There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and bestselling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in digestible chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day. While waiting for your morning coffee to brew, or while waiting for the bus, the train, or the plane to arrive, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry will reveal just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe.
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Hidden Figures (Streaming and DVD) by ISBN: 9780062363619Publication Date: 2016-09-06The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South's segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America's aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam's call, moving to Hampton, Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Even as Virginia's Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley's all-black "West Computing" group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens.
- The First Female Hispanic AstronautIn 1993, Ellen Ochoa wrote her name in the stars – as the first Hispanic woman to enter orbit. She continues to inspire generations of aspiring astronauts today.
- Hedy Lamarr
With her smouldering femme fatale looks, Austrian Hedy Lamarr was known as the most beautiful woman in film. But, that's not all Hedy did. Most impressive of all, she invented a secret communication system designed to allow Allied submarines to guide torpedoes more accurately toward their enemy targets. Although the idea was not taken up by the Allied commanders at the time, her invention did eventually place her amongst the greatest minds at the forefront of modern communication technology. Her invention was developed to form the basis of all our wireless communications today. - The Sun Queen
For nearly 50 years, chemical engineer and inventor Maria Telkes applied her prodigious intellect to harnessing the power of the sun, including designing and building the world’s first successfully solar-heated modern residence. Along the way, she was undercut and thwarted by her male boss and colleagues at MIT, but persevered despite these obstacles. - Sisters With Transistors
SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS is the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today. - IIiana Nossa: Ionosphere
A short film on Columbian Physics and Engineer, Iliana Nossa, who studies the ionosphere - Learn About Astronaut Sally Ride, Who Became The First American Woman In Space In 1983
Sally Ride was one of the first six women to enter NASA's astronaut program. On June 18, 1983, the space shuttle Challenger launched into space with Ride aboard. She became the first American woman in space, and at 32 years old, the youngest American. - Mae Jemison
Learn more about the life and career of Mae Jemison - Madame Mars: Women and the Quest for Worlds Beyond
As a new space age dawns, have women come far enough to go farther than they ever have before? This film tells the story of the role women have played in the exploration of Mars. - Neil deGrasse Tyson: How science literacy can save us from the internet
The internet has become a tool to tribalize us, a place where opinions become identities in a fight to the death of who's right and who's wrong.As information continues to flow in, many of us lack the training to effectively sort opinion from fact. This leads to widespread disinformation.We need science literacy. With an understanding of how things work, or how to question how things work, we empower ourselves to discover the truth.
