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September 14, 2016 01:30 pm PDT
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When "computers" were young, brilliant black women mathematicians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK8xHq6dfAo
Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures recovers the lost history of the young African American women who did the heavy computational work of the Apollo missions, given the job title of "computer" -- her compelling book has been made into a new motion picture. (more…)
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