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This Fact Is Overdue #11

References

Bey, S. (2017) Augusta Savage: Sacrifice, Social Responsibility, and Early American Art Education. Studies in Art Education, 58(2).

de Leon, C. (2021) The Black Woman Artist Who Crafter a Life She Was Told She Couldn't Have. New York Times.

Hayes, J. (2018) Augusta Savage Renaissance Woman. Jacksonville, FL: Cummer Museum.

Leninger-Miller, T. (2014). Modern Dancers and African Amazons. in Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance. University Press of Mississippi.

Lepore, J. (2015) Joe Gould's Teeth. New York: Alfred Knopf.

Tanzer, G. (2019) Graven Images. Daytona, FL: Taylor and Seale Publishing.

 

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This Fact Is Overdue #10

 

Eunice Foote presents a landmark paper and gets forgotten for 200 years.  

Listen here:  Greenhouse Effects  

REFERENCES

Foote, E. (1857) Circumstances affecting the heat of the sun’s rays

https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002152491/page/381/mode/2up?view=theater

Holt, K. (2015) Victorian Era: the American West.

http://www.kristinholt.com/archives/898

McNeil, L. (2016) This Suffrage-Supporting Scientist Defined the Greenhouse Effect But Didn’t Get the Credit, Because Sexism. Smithsonian Magazine.

NASA (2019) What is the greenhouse effect?

https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/19/what-is-the-greenhouse-effect/

Oritz, J and R. Jackson (2020) Understanding Eunice Foote’s 1856 Experiments Notes and Records Royal Society

Perkowitz, S. (2019) If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist. Nautilus, issue 78.

Sorenson, R. (2011) Eunice Foote’s Pioneering Research on CO2 and Climate Warming. Search and Discovery #70092. Tulsa, OK: AAPG.

UCAR (2021) Greenhouse Effect.

https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/how-climate-works/greenhouse-effect

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I am amazed to have hit the 500 mark! Thank you for keeping me company on this journey.

 

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This Fact Is Overdue #9

Algorithms, Dr. Safiya Noble, and an upcoming movie, Coded Bias.

REFERENCES

Geist, E. (2016) It Is Already Too Late To Stop the AI Arms Race. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 72(5), 318-321.

Noble, S. (2018) Algorithms of Oppression. New York: NYU Press

Noble, S. (2018) Close-Up: Black Images Matter. Black Camera: An International Film Journal 9(2), 147-160.

Online Etymology Dictionary. https://www.etymonline.com/word/algorithm

Schwab, K. (2021) AI Has a Big Tech Problem Wired,  Mar-Ap, pp11-13.

Smuha, N. (2021) From a Race to AI to a Race to AI Regulation. Law, Innovation, and Technology : https://doi.org/10.1080/17579961.2021.1898300

REFERENCES

Geist, E. (2016) It Is Already Too Late To Stop the AI Arms Race. Bulletin of the Atomic Scienctists 72(5), 318-321.

Noble, S. (2018) Algorithms of Oppression. New York: NYU Press

Noble, S. (2018) Close-Up: Black Images Matter. Black Camera: An International Film Journal 9(2), 147-160.

Online Etymology Dictionary. https://www.etymonline.com/word/algorithm

Schwab, K. (2021) AI Has a Big Tech Problem Wired,  Mar-Ap, pp11-13.

Smuha, N. (2021) From a Race to AI to a Race to AI Regulation. Law, Innovation, and Technology : https://doi.org/10.1080/17579961.2021.1898300

 

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This Fact Is Overdue #8

Dr. Jane Hinton

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Dr. Jane Hinton and the development of Mueller-Hinton agar.

Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/diane-t-sands/support

REFERENCES

Basset, M. (2020) BLACK HISTORY MONTH: CELEBRATING THE WORK OF BLACK MICROBIOLOGISTS.
https://microbiologysociety.org/blog/black-history-month-celebrating-the-work-of-black-microbiologists-4.html

Bastian, H. (2020) Dr. Jane Hinton
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/jane-hinton-1919-2003/

Calidas, D. (2017) How Jane Hinton cultivated gonorrhea and saved us from antibiotic-resistant bugs
https://medium.com/@idrscientist/how-jane-hinton-cultivated-gonorrhea-and-saved-us-from-antibiotic-resistant-bugs-782cf78dcef5

Kassinger, R. (2019) Slime. Boston: Mariner Books. Pp.122-5.

Microbigals (2020) Jane Hinton: Co-developer of Mueller-Hinton Agar
https://www.microbigals.com/post/jane-hinton-co-developer-of-mueller-hinton-agar-one-of-the-first-black-americans-to-earn-a-vet-md

Mitchell, E. (2020) Dr. Jane Hinton: Co-Developer of Mueller-Hinton Agar http://blog.eoscu.com/blog/jane-hinton

Mueller, J.H. and J. Hinton. (1941) A Protein-Free Medium for Primary Isolation of the Gonococcus and Meningococcus. Experimental Biology and Medicine https://doi.org/10.3181/00379727-48-13311

This Podcast Will Kill You ep. 25: Put your hands together for Gonorrhea!
https://thispodcastwillkillyou.com/2019/04/30/episode-25-put-your-hands-together-for-gonorrhea/

Wikipedia. Jane Hinton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Hinton

 

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I have had over seven days of washer dryer drama. I have learned so much about plumbing and electrical details. 220 outlets come in so many varieties! And no one tells you this before you buy an appliance that needs one. 

 

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