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What can the transcontinental railroad teach us about anti-Asian racism?


What can the transcontinental railroad teach us about anti-Asian racism?
Chinese immigrants helped achieve ‘one of the greatest engineering feats in U.S. history.’ But their sacrifices are seldom remembered.
Train tracks run through Loray, Nevada. The transcontinental railroad extended through five states and connected America’s coasts.Photograph by Philip Cheung
ByRay Rogers
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Every May, tourists gather in Promontory Summit, Utah, to watch two trains meet nose to nose on tracks first laid more than 150 years ago. The Central Pacific Railroad’s Jupiter, painted blue with red and gold accents, whistles as steam billows against a clear sky and rolling hills. Facing it, the Union Pacific Railroad’s red-and-gold 119, its bell swinging, slows to a stop.  ....

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Trailblazing women in statistics


Trailblazing women in statistics
Lynne Billard
Women have been leaders in the field of statistics for decades, with contributions ranging from theoretical developments to applications in biology, climatology and medicine.
A recent paper by University of Georgia statistics professor Lynne Billard, “Women Trailblazers in the Statistical Profession,” provides a historical introduction to these remarkable scholars from around the globe.
Billard met or knew several of these extraordinary women.
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Florence Nightingale
Born in Italy in 1820, Nightingale began her career as a nurse and played a major role in organizing the care of soldiers during the Crimean War. With her background in mathematics, Nightingale was able to demonstrate that fatalities associated with war wounds were considerably fewer than those from communicable diseases contracted from unsanitary conditions. The implementation of new sanitary practices led to a 40% declin ....

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