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Less than seven percent of commercial drone pilots are women, according to statistics from planestats.com, and Darcy Rouhani is one of them. A Federal...

The talk covered the history of racism in STEM fields through the lens of colonialism

My Functional Programming journey was filled with dead ends, false starts, failed attempts and frustration. And I suspect that I’m not alone in this struggle. So why is this a common problem and what…

Then on october 31st, 2014, virgin galactics "vss enterprise" the first iteration of "space ship 2" crashed during a test flight killing one pilot and badly injuring the other. those space ian ears will not be forgotten. their sacrifice is in large part what brings us to this point in time. as we await the first fully crewed launch of the civilian space kraft there is a lot more at stake than the shooting of a billionaire and his crew to the edge of space. todays mission to reinvigorate american...

Captivating people. and spacex, you know, has been captivating people. just as, you know, elon musk was inspired by peter diamande and the x prize, just as richard branson was inspired by the apollo 11 landing, even going back decades earlier, peter deamandes was inspired by charles linde burg flying from new york to paris. there will be a continuation of inspiration that happens from this day forward. we see it happening and its thrilling. >> yeah, it is. and its going to be, its going to be so...

Big Bang Theory in Slovakia: Young physicist making science cool Interest in theoretical physicist Samuel Kováčik’s ‘Scientist’ project soars in pandemic. 26. Jun 2021 at 9:00 Radka Minarechová You need to sign in to follow this author: Login | Register Samuel Kováčik (Source: SME) + When someone says the words ‘...

May 10, 2021 Knowledge Graphs (KGs) have emerged as a compelling abstraction for organizing the world’s structured knowledge, and as a way to integrate information extracted from multiple data sources. Knowledge graphs have started to play a central role in representing the information extracted using natural language processing and computer vision. Domain knowledge expressed in KGs is being input into machine learning models to produce better predictions. Our goals in this blog post are to (...

Scientist claims aliens have visited us—and we should invest in searching for extraterrestrials   Show Notes The possibility of alien life has captivated the human imagination for decades and has been at the center of some of our most popular fictional stories. But one scientist has made a controversial claim that aliens are no long a fiction but a reality. Avi Loeb is a theoretical physicist and former chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University. For the past few years, he’s...

A Mom’s Research (Part 2): Texas Freezing and Global Warming Commentary A few days ago, my husband and I were chatting about the freezing weather in Texas and the resulting blackouts. My daughter got grumpy when she heard us and said, “So you don’t believe in global warming?” “Not necessarily. If you want to convince me, answer my questions,” my husband said. “First, is it true that we have global warming? See how cold Texas gets and how much snow we are getting.” “Scientists ...

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