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Physicist & educator Eugénie Cotton was born #OTD in 1881. A student of Marie Curie, she was the top female physics scholar in France in 1904 & ran the elite École de Sèvres, transforming scientific education for women. Her research focused on the magnetic properties of matter. 🧵 #WomenInSTEM

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#OTD in 2019, Dr. Esther Duflo was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics (along with two colleagues) for their "experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” She is the youngest person and the second woman to win the award. #WomenInSTEM #economics

World-renowned entomologist Dr. Pamela Marrone is a pioneer in biological pest control. In her 40+ year career, she transformed global agriculture by developing nature-based biopesticides as alternatives to synthetic chemical pesticides.🧵 She was born #OTD in 1956. #WomenInSTEM #Entomology #AgTech

British physiologist Dr. Hilda Tracy co-isolated and sequenced gastrin, the first gastrointestinal hormone fully sequenced. Her research at the University of Liverpool transformed our understanding of gastric acid and Zollinger-Ellison syndrome. She was born #OTD in 1927. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky

A.A. MILNE, his son Christopher Robin, and the real Winnie The Pooh — in 1926. The first collection of his stories was published 100yrs ago today. (Milne was inspired watching his son play with a stuffed teddy he called "Edward Bear” & also by an American black bear named "Winnie" at London Zoo)

American poet & essayist Louise Glück died #OTD in 2023. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in #Literature for "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal." US Poet Laureate, 2003-04. #poetry #LitSky #BookSky

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Christopher & Georgianne Walken have been married 57yrs.

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British nurse Edith Cavell was a #WWI resistance leader. She ran escape lines from German-occupied Belgium saving ~200 Allied soldiers. Betrayed by a collaborator, she was arrested, tried, and shot by a German firing squad #OTD in 1915. Quote from the eve of her execution. #WomenInHistory #HistSky

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Astronaut Eileen Collins was the first female Space Shuttle pilot. #WorldSpaceWeek🚀 She piloted the Space Shuttle Discovery during mission STS-63 (1995), a mission that included the first-ever rendezvous between a US Space Shuttle and the Russian space station Mir. #WomenInSTEM

Thank you for leading the team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon. Yours is an amazing legacy & everyone should know your name. Goodnight and godspeed, Margaret Hamilton. 🕯️

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NEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business. with @texastribune.org

I miss having a president. I mean a REAL president -- someone who works and lives the position. Someone who doesn't shame us but instead is always a person to respect and be proud of. Someone like Barack Obama.

"It may irritate you, Inspector, but sometimes women have superior minds.” MURDER MOST FOUL (1964) The glorious MARGARET RUTHERFORD. #BudTingwell

Ophthalmologist Dr. Agatha Aboe led the medical campaign in Ghana to eliminate trachoma (leading infectious cause of preventable blindness globally). It worked. Ghana became the 1st country in sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate the disease, 2018. #WorldSightDay #WomenInSTEM

In 2022, planetary geologist & NASA astronaut Dr. Jessica Watkins became the first Black woman to serve on a long-duration International Space Station mission. She spent 170 days in orbit executing vital medical, biological, and physical sciences experiments. #WorldSpaceWeek🚀 #WomenInSTEM

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English physician & epidemiologist Dr. Alice Stewart is best-known for her pioneering research in the 1950s that established a strong link between prenatal X-ray exposure and childhood leukemia. Her work influenced radiation protection standards. She was born #OTD in 1906. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky

75 Years Ago Today: New York #Giants players Monte Irvin, Willie Mays & Hank Thompson form the first all African American outfield in World Series #history! (October 4, 1951) #MLB #Baseball #Postseason

This Film often has the piss taken out of it for being a rather sedentary piece about 2 people just talking a lot — BUT — it has one of the most brilliantly prescient monologues imho. MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (1981) Have a listen.

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“I recall moments from that night when I was listening to the dense, tumultuous music … only to open my eyes and discover that John Coltrane was intently hitting a cowbell with a drumstick and Pharoah Sanders was the only person playing a saxophone.” John Coltrane in Detroit, June 1966:

Love this clip of Brian Wilson and George Martin discussing ‘God Only Knows’ and Brian’s enthusiasm when he thinks George is making the song better — “I can’t believe this is happening!”

I don't take tips on virtue from a man who used a pic of his stillborn child for a GoFundMe campaign for his children's burial garden named "Lincoln’s Place" when the project was never built, and Ogles repeatedly refused to disclose what happened to the tens of thousands of dollars donated.