Here’s a great article about some really impressive women.
Natalie Portman, Oscar Winner, Was Also a Precocious Scientist – NYTimes.com.
I’d known about Hedy Lamar and Danika McKellar, but not Natalie Portman and Mayim Bialek. Very cool stuff, very inspiring.
Phil Plait brings you the moon. It’s a GORGEOUS, high-relief image, constructed from about 1,300 individual images. Click through and check it out. Stunning.
The extraordinary face of the Moon.
Working scientist, SF writer, and blogger Athena Andreadis alerted me today that she has written a post on steampunk, Captain Nemo, and Jules Verne’s important SF work, “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” which has been picked up by the World SF blog.
She is one of the most important writers working online today on the entwined subjects of SF, science, and society. Her essays are always thought-provoking and written with flare and precision. (And she frequently has cool artwork to accompany her posts, as a nifty bonus.) If you don’t have her blog, Starship Reckless, bookmarked, you are missing out.
This is why I like Twitter. Guess I’d better follow @Pogue.
Kevin Gold of RIT posts on Tor.com about AI program Watson’s performance on Jeopardy.