“#Stanford Professor Andrei Linde celebrates #physics breakthrough…” [#geekgirl]
[I absolutely love Professor Renata Kallosh’s reaction: wonderful (in the true sense of the term).]
“7 of the most amazing women you’ve never heard of… ” [#geekgirl]
[Via salon.com] “For centuries, women all over the world have fought and ruled, written and taught. They’ve done business, explored, revolted and invented. They’ve done everything men have done — and a lot of things they haven’t.Some of these women we know about. But so many others we don’t. For every Joan of Arc, there’s a Mongolian wrestler princess; for every Mata Hari, there’s a Colombian revolutionary spy; for every Ada Lovelace, there’s a pin-up Austrian telecoms inventor.”
#RIP Marina Ginestà, “…the defiant militia girl” [#geekgirl]
[As reported by El País] “Some pictures are touched by fortune, ready to become icons of an era as soon as they are developed. One such image is a photograph taken at the onset of the Spanish Civil War, depicting a dishevelled, attractive young woman with a rifle slung over her shoulder who stares at the camera with a combination of joy and defiance as she stands on the rooftop of a building affording views across Barcelona. The girl, a magnificent symbol of the proletariat’s revolutionary epic and the hopes of a people who had taken up arms, was named Marina Ginestà, and she died in Paris on Sunday at the age of 94.”“Grace Murray Hopper records the first computer bug in her log book…” [#geekgirl]
[From “This Day in History”] “At 3:45 p.m., Grace Murray Hopper records the first computer bug in her log book as she worked on the Harvard Mark II. The problem was traced to a moth stuck between a relay in the machine, which Hopper duly taped into the Mark II’s log book with the explanation: First instance of actual computer bug being found.”