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Ada Lovelace

Who Was Ada Lovelace?

As we celebrate our favorite women in tech today, take a look back at the woman who wrote the first computer program

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Five Ways to Eat Tahini

A Level Playing Field for Science

I suppose, in a way, I should thank the woman who tried to compliment me when I was in high school by saying that I was too pretty for science

In 1948, a plane carrying Navy pilot Bobby Freeberg disappeared in the jungles of Indonesia but what happened to him after the crash remains a mystery.

An American Who Died Fighting for Indonesia’s Freedom

Bobby Freeberg, a 27-year-old pilot from Kansas, disappeared while flying a supply-filled cargo plane over the Indonesian jungle

Shoshone Falls, Snake River, Idaho. View across top of the falls.

“Framing the West” at American Art Museum

In the fall of 1868, Timothy O’Sullivan peered through the lens of his camera at Shoshone Falls, on Idaho’s Snake River, and captured the roaring waterfall

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