August 15, 2016 Hidden Figures trailer The first trailer for the movie Hidden Figures was released recently.
August 4, 2016 Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World Rachel Ignotofsky, illustrator and author of a book featuring fifty women scientists throughout history, had an interview with mental_floss.
June 7, 2016 Hidden Figures An upcoming movie, Hidden Figures, tells the story of African-American mathematicians who helped get America's space program off the ground.
December 11, 2015 in Modern Worthies Katherine Johnson NASA's Computer That Wore a Skirt Katherine Johnson was a "human computer" at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (later NASA), doing the math that would get Alan Shepard, John Glenn, and Buzz Aldrin to space and back.