It is Friday. Here is some reading and other tidbits for your weekend, if you are so inclined. High Plains Farmers Race to Save the Ogallala Aquifer By restoring soils and grasslands, farmers in the Texas Panhandle are conserving the last water beneath their…
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Monday Tidbits to Start Your Week Off
Here is a hodge podge of reading links I have been saving in my tidbits folder for you: Astronomers strike gold – and platinum – as they watch two neutron stars collide Kodak’s First Digital Moment In Amish Country, the Future Is Calling “Lizzie…
Weekday TidBits and Links for You
Sherman Alexie on Not Being “The Kind of Indian That’s Expected” : On what it means for Trump to treat the entire country like a reservation — and writing a memoir about a great woman who was not a great mother. If Republicans Love…
Who Said Girls Can’t Jump?
From the NYTimes Sunday Magazine, “Who Said Girls Can’t Jump?“: The resistance to women in ski jumping makes frustratingly little sense when you recognize what female jumpers can do. “The gap between men and women in ski jumping is so small, you can’t believe…
Ada Lovelace Day: Year 2, I Nominate Caitlin Kilroy & Victoria Chowney
Today is the 2nd Annual Ada Lovelace Day, in where I am to blog about a woman in technology that I admire. After reading Vikki (aka Victoria) Chowney’s Ada Lovelace Day post this morning, I decided that I would like to write about two…
Ada Lovelace Day :: Cousin Lynn
Photo by Ms. Jen at the family Easter lunch 2007. For Ada Lovelace Day, I would like to celebrate the achievements of my Cousin Lynn and the other women of her generation in tech. According to family lore, in the early 1960s, Cousin Lynn…
Fighting Camera with camera
Sat 07.29.05 – BlogHer – It is way too early to see a TV crew.