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Lisa Yaszek. Lisa Yaszek is an American academic in the field of science fiction literature, particularly the history and cultural implications of the genre and underrepresented groups in science fiction, including women and people of color. [1] She is a Regents professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia ...
The Royal Society Science Books Prize is an annual £25,000 prize awarded by the Royal Society to celebrate outstanding popular science books from around the world. [1] It is open to authors of science books written for a non-specialist audience, and since it was established in 1988 has championed writers such as Stephen Hawking, Jared Diamond, Stephen Jay Gould and Bill Bryson.
Synopsis. Shetterly started working on the book in 2010. [2] The book takes place from the 1930s through the 1960s, depicting the particular barriers for Black women in science during this time, thereby providing a lesser-known history of NASA. [3] The biographical text follows the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson ...
2023 was the hottest year on global record — and that’s not the only reason this year made climate history.. For instance, countries at the Cop28 climate summit struck a historic deal to fight ...
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock. In 2019, Jenny Odell drew our collective attention to the attention economy's downsides with her book How to Do Nothing.Saving Time, due in March ...
Each year, Goodreads, members cast votes for their favorite books, which are then curated into a list of around 15 of the year's best page-turners.This year, nearly 6 million (!) votes were cast ...
The first black recipient, Ralph Bunche, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950. W. Arthur Lewis became the first black recipient of a Nobel Prize in one of the sciences when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1979. The most recent black laureate, Abdulrazak Gurnah, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021.
The contributions of women in climate change have received increasing attention in the early 21st century. Feedback from women and the issues faced by women have been described as "imperative" by the United Nations [1] and "critical" by the Population Reference Bureau. [2] A report by the World Health Organization concluded that incorporating ...