A marvelous and heartwarming 40th birthday party for Apple’s Lisa (arguably the computer world's most important flop) earlier this week at the Museum. youtu.be/oCvQbGXPtBU #AppleLisa #CHMLive
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Fascinating evening Museum marking 40th b-day of the Lisa, Apple’s greatest flop.
Moderated by my wife , fascinating stories of early days , the brilliance of Steve Jobs, & how Apple took the lessons of Lisa to inform the genesis of the Mac.
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Happening soon! More people will tune in than people who bought Lisas!
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Is it true that without the Lisa there would be no Mac? Was it in fact Apple's most important flop? Live tonight at 7pm PT for the Apple Lisa’s 40th birthday at the @ComputerHistory
Museum. bit.ly/3VDZmsx I'm moderating, w/@StevenLevy @danllewin
#AppleLisa #CHMLive
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Is it true that without the Lisa there would be no Mac? Was it in fact Apple's most important flop? Live tonight at 7pm PT for the Apple Lisa’s 40th birthday at the
Museum. bit.ly/3VDZmsx I'm moderating, w/
#AppleLisa #CHMLive
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oh wow! Please let us know whom we should be featuring on
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Bookalanche! Took on the moderately mad task of moving the #WomenInScience books to new shelves since they have outgrown their old ones and about a third of the way in my stacking hubris caught up with me.
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“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.” Eleanor Roosevelt
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Check out the first Short about Leona Zacharias, who helped solve a blindness epidemic among babies in the 40s
The new podcast by & Amy Scharf tells the remarkable stories of forgotten women scientists
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The USDA has the largest fungi collection in the world — and that’s partly thanks to a female mycologist named Flora Patterson. If you love foraging, fungi and — this episode’s for you.
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Our second Short is live. It’s about a mycologist named Flora Patterson, who greatly expanded the #USDA's #fungus collection and may have saved a few species of trees along the way.
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#mycology #WomenInSTEM #mushrooms #fungi
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A delightful #podcast this morning from on Flora Patterson, a mycologist who helped ensure Washington, DC, became known for its cherry blossoms. Also, there's mushroom "catsup" in there 🍄🥫... scientificamerican.com/article/this-o 🎧on
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Our second Short is live. It’s about a mycologist named Flora Patterson, who greatly expanded the #USDA's #fungus collection and may have saved a few species of trees along the way.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/los
#mycology #WomenInSTEM #mushrooms #fungi
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In our first LWoS Short, explains Retinopathy of Prematurity, a disease that can cause blindness and impacts thousands of people – including – and how Leona Zacharias helped root out the cause.
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In the 1940s, some premature newborns were going blind after being born with perfectly healthy eyes. Leona Zacharias (a and alum!) was part of the team searching for a solution. in .
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So true about the primordial forces.
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Saw "The Banshees of Inisherin" last night. It's very funny, sublimely acted, and *very, very dark.* But it's real art, the Irish equivalent of the short stories of Bruno Schulz or Issac Bashevis Singer, where primordial, nearly biblical forces play out in the human world. #film
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Amazing podcast about Dr. Leona Zacharias ( ): played a key role in studying the root cause of retinopathy of prematurity in the 1940s.
Thanks, (): I’ve studied ROP for 20 years but never knew this.
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A fascinating scientist dealing with the times was a woman who had one good moment as a grandmother, and it happened to coincide with her science. The Finkbeiner Test: it's complicated.
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In the 1940s, when premature newborns were going blind after being born with perfectly healthy eyes, Leona Zacharias was part of the team that worked to root out the cause.
Our first Short tells her story:
@sciam @prx #WomenInSTEM
scientificamerican.com/article/leona-
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Fabulous episode of , produced & narrated by my wife . Katie tells the story of her grandmother, a complex woman who helped unravel a tragic mystery of the 1940s: Why were premature babies going blind? Great listen.
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Without the #AppleLisa, there would be no Mac or iPhone. Join , , #BruceDaniels, , #WayneRosing, #AnnetteWagner & myself to explore the Lisa’s impact on 1/31 at 7pm Museum: bit.ly/3VDZmsx #AppleLisa #CHMLive
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A blindness epidemic among premature babies, and a brilliant biologist whose story hits close to home here at Lost Women of Science…
Our first Short comes out tomorrow, wherever you get your podcasts.
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Introducing Lost Women of Science Shorts.
The new series launches this Thursday, January 12th.
Learn more at lostwomenofscience.org/shorts
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made the beautiful art for Season 3 of Lost Women of Science.
You can read about Traci and hear her discuss the meaning behind these pieces in our latest newsletter: us6.campaign-archive.com/?u=226012b76c9
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Happy publication day to and her splendid novel,"In the Time of Our History." John Scognamiglio Books.
#family #tradition #IranianAmerican #generations
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My favorite novels of 2022 in the order I read them … All are great.
Next five:
Horse, Geraldine Brooks
The Boys, Katie Hafner
Shrines of Gaiety, Kate Atkinson
Anxious People, Fredrik Backman
The Last Chairlift, John Irving
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Oh wow!
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Replying to @katiehafner and @deborahkalb
I’ve had people to whom I sold The Boys stop me on the street to tell me how much they liked it!
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A really wonderful book.
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New Arrival for the #WomenInScience bookshelves! Kathy KIeiman's book on six women who programmed ENIAC, the world's first programmable general use computer.
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Counting down the top 10 most-viewed posts of 2022 on my book blog...here's #5, a Q&A w/@katiehafner! bit.ly/3PXfoM0
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Katy Butler on the shameful practice of degrading women in court.
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THANK YOU to everyone who has given to Lost Women of Science this year.
Your tax-deductible donations have made our research and advocacy for women in STEM possible.
lostwomenofscience.org/donate
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Thank you ! I'm so proud to be considered a "much weirder" version of Anne Tyler. But not too much weirder, I hope.
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Fabulous review of my wife @katiehafner's novel "The Boys" in @StarTribune. It captures why Ethan is such an indelible character.
I never considered Katie particularly weird, but "think of Katie Hafner as Anne Tyler, but much weirder" is pretty splendid. startribune.com/review-the-boy
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Easily one of the most delightful stories ever to ride the radio waves: The physics of Santa's annual heroic achievement. String theory! #physics
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That must have been some jolt. Here in San Francisco the dog and I slept through it but it woke up my sound sleeper of a husband.
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#earthquake Just felt quite a jolt on Berkeley/Oakland border
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Proving Ground: A great book by Kathy Kleiman, who knew to look harder at this one photograph. The lesson: Make no assumptions. #WomenInSTEM
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THE BOYS by is featured in Apple Books' "Best of" Sale running now through December 20th!
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Happy 75th, transistor!🎂
Does anyone know of any women who contributed to this innovation? Official story is that 3 men at Bell Labs built it—but experience has led us to be suspicious when men get all the credit. Write to us! lostwomenofscience.org/contact-us
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On Monday, Dec. 5: A new installment of the Virtual STEM Poetry Series @FarmingdaleSC. Past readings by and Next up: , then , & more. farmingdale.edu/library/resear
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Today, we're bringing you this special guest episode from Portraits, a podcast from . Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu was a towering figure in science whose parity experiment shattered our understanding of the physical world.
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Dec. 7, 7pm EST, the great Gary will be in convo with my wife, author/journalist . Topics: writing about a pandemic; the crapshoot that is your review; toggling from nonfiction to fiction, & more.
Admission free, link:
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Proud to have an essay in this "cheeky new book" from . news.slashdot.org/story/22/11/27 #computing #programmers
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