NASA Recorded The DNA Of One Twin (Mark Kelly) Astronaut On Earth, And His Identicaltwin Before, During,
NASA recorded the DNA of one twin (Mark Kelly) astronaut on earth, and his identicaltwin before, during, and after Scott Kelly spent a year in space. It looks like there are differences, but we don't know what that entails yet!
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Lovelace’s friend Charles Babbage designed a concept for a machine he called the “Analytical Engine” – essentially a mechanical computer that would have relied on punch cards to run programs. He recruited Lovelace to translate some notes from one of his lectures, but while Lovelace was translating she added to the notes herself.
The notes grew to three times their original length, as Lovelace described what many call the first computer program. Because of funding issues, the machine was not built during her and Babbage’s lifetimes.
But Lovelace’s published article on the Analytical Engine later became a source of inspiration for Alan Turing’s work to build the first modern computers in the 1940s.
Women are sometimes considered outsiders in the science and technology fields, but Lovelace and many of the female computer programmers who followed her are proof that this paucity is a function of society, not capability. We forget or never learn about the female “computers” who programmed early mechanical machines in World War II, or that the women’s magazine Cosmopolitan once ran articles suggesting that women were perfectly suited for programming.
If the lack of acknowledgement of women’s contributions to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields grinds your gears, then Ada Lovelace should be one of the first names you go to right that wrong.
Further reading:
Wikipedia profile
10 Things You May Not Know About Ada Lovelace
What if there were more women in tech?
Why we ALL need to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day
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