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Παρασκευή 9 Νοεμβρίου 2018

… ballerinas of color are finally getting the shoes they deserve. Read of the week!


For years, ballerinas like Paunika Jones, Ashley Murphy, 
and Cira Robinson have had to paint their point shoes to match their skin.
Photograph by Robert Garland, courtesy Wikimedia. CC-BY-SA-3.0

What science guy invented a new kind of point shoe?
Isn’t this a beautiful diagram of the SI units?
Illustration by the Physical Measurement Laboratory of NIST

This isn’t the first time an SI unit has definedand redefined.
Kenyan workers make about $9 a day helping program 
AI for Silicon Valley tech giants.
Illustration by Alejandro Zorrilal Cruz, courtesy Wikimedia. 
Public domain

Back in my day, we read National Geographic in school.
Photograph by St. Cloud Normal School, 
courtesy National Geographic. Public domain
… Borneo may be home to the oldest surviving drawing of an animal.
With a minimum age of 40,000 years, a trio of cow-like creatures, 
seen here in a composite image, is considered to be the oldest figurative 
artwork yet found.
Photograph by Luc-Henri Fage

Were the first artists mostly women?
… schools aren’t using the apps they’re paying for.  
A median of 97.6% of licenses analyzed in the study were never 
used “intensively” (for 10 or more hours between assessments).
Photograph by Lynn Johnson, National Geographic

Use your apps! Make an old-school lesson better with tech.
… a stellar explosion has astronomers saying ‘holy cow’!
Contrary to the slow ramp-up of a typical supernova, 
Cow became stupendously bright essentially overnight, 
leaving astronomers perplexed.
Images courtesy The ATLAS team
Tokens like this one (identifying the location of the time capsule) 
are helping preserve contemporary life in ceramic.
Photograph by Martin Kunze, courtesy Wikimedia. CC-BY-SA-4.0
There are still plenty of caribou in Alaska.
Photograph by Florian Schulz, National Geographic


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