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Tolerated not only by my wife but by the greatest group of friends anyone ever had. >> you had "big bang theory" that stayed on forever. its huge. and theyre nerds. >> we started to see articles written about how young people were going into s.t.e.m. fields in school because "the big bang theory" made it look cool. >> i need to get to hear whats there. the earliest estimate of the singularity. >> so you are upset about missing out on becoming some sort of freakish self-aware robot? >> by this mu...

Other pandoras box. may i ask you a question before i give it to you? [ laughter ] >> of course. >> why are we saying give it to you like that? >> at the beginning, sheldon is an outcast and intellectual, a geek. by the end, hes found his soulmate. he has friends, hes won a nobel prize. >> i have been encouraged, sustained, inspired, and tolerated not only by my wife but by the greatest group of friends anyone ever had. >> this show stayed on forever. its huge. and theyre nerds. >> we started to...

Well deserved love and attention. more than 20 historically black colleges and universities will be scrubbing student loan debt using federal pandemic funds, and its so necessary. more than 85% of black students reported more debt than their white counterparts. while hbcus only make up 3% of schools, they account for 17% of bachelors degrees earned by black students and nearly a quarter of degrees in the s.t.e.m. fields. since the pandemic, total university enrollments have dropped by 3.5%, but ...

Published: - May 27, 2021 Aerospace engineer and unsung hero Judith Love Cohen worked for NASAs most important projects, including the pioneer Apollo 13 and Hubble missions. The Woman Post | Carolina Rodríguez Monclou Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio tag. Judith Love Cohen did most of her work as an engineer on NASA projects. However, she also spent time as a ballet dancer at the New York Metropolitan Ballet Company. Cohen wrote and published books ...

The gender gap is even wider among students in post-secondary STEM courses. The STEM Equity Monitor reports: When considering university and VET together, in 2018 women comprised only 21% of total STEM course enrolments and 23% of total STEM course completions. In comparison, women comprised 60% of total non-STEM course enrolments and 61% of total non-STEM course completions in 2018. One explanation commonly offered for this gender gap is a lack of confidence among girls and women in their tech...

Dollars in colleges and universities and black businesses. she explained her plan just a short time ago at the national urban league conference in indianapolis. cnns national correspondent is there. and were also joined by tiffany cross, co founder and manager of the beat dc. what is in senator kamala harriss plan? >> well, its basically a mull tie billion investment in two areas that she says will eventually start to address the root problems of what is known as the racial wealth gap, that blac...

Whether a gender disparity or race. must be the result of discrimination, our stem fields are now obsessed with gender equity and race equity. >> also an attack. on competition. and merit. >> it is. >> we dumb down our society, we triballize our society, vulcanize our society, who does this benefit? >> well, it benefits the bureaucracy. lets start with college camp us, it goes to corporations as well. on a college campus, students are taught to hate, taught to think of themselves as victims, thi...

Whether a gender disparity or race. must be the result of discrimination, our stem fields are now obsessed with gender equity and race equity. >> also an attack. on competition. and merit. >> it is. >> we dumb down our society, we triballize our society, vulcanize our society, who does this benefit? >> well, it benefits the bureaucracy. lets start with college camp us, it goes to corporations as well. on a college campus, students are taught to hate, taught to think of themselves as victims, thi...

Welcome back to "velshi & ruhle." time for todays monumental american. mary ross was the first known native american woman engineer whose work helped put people on the moon. born in 1908 in oklahoma, she was the great-great-granddaughter of chief john ross of the cherokee nation. she excelled in math and after college took a job at lockheed aircraft corporation where she worked on several important projects. >> it gives me the chills just hearing about her. ross was selected to be part of a top ...

What must it mean to hear him? we have to not only condemn him and counter what he said, i believe. these are not s-hole countries. africa was the birthplace of civilization. >> civilization. >> where the stem fields were born. which the greeks copied. the great explore a bbu kalli journeyed to central america and met the indigenous people and from whom they descend and establish trade before columbus was herd of in the 1300s. after slavery and colonization the haitians freed themselves and foug...