War, Violence, And Technological Change
Rather than hijack Eric Diaz' excellent recent post with lengthy and tangential comments, I'll post my thoughts about the roots of war here.
Source: science20.com
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During Frankfurt from Publishing Scotland: Audiobooks
The season for Publishing Scotland includes the arrival of its first five audiobooks as well as an anniversary for 'Beano.'
Source: publishingperspectives.com
Who Invented the First Computer?
This person of diverse interests also invented the cowcatcher device for trains and held a mathematics professorship at the University of Cambridge.
Source: howstuffworks.com
Doctor Who: A Look at How Dragonfire Planted Seeds for "New Who"
"Dragonfire" is an underrated BBC Doctor Who story that introduced many of the tropes that the revival has taken up since 2005.
Source: bleedingcool.com
CITP Seminar: Kathy Kleiman – Author of Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer
During World War II, the Army hired women to hand-calculate ballistics trajectories for artillery firing tables. But these differential calculus equations took over 2 dozen hours by hand, and the Army needed thousands of them. In an attempt to speed up the calculations, the Army agreed to fund the creation of a truly experimental machine – the world’s first all-electronic, general-purpose, programmable computer with 18,000 vacuum tubes. When the huge Electronic Numeric Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) surprisingly worked, the Army selected women mathematicians to program it to compute the b...
Source: princeton.edu