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Gwen Stefani - Misery

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Free my brother

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“They were going to the moon. I computed the path that would get you there. You determined where you were on Earth when you started out, and where the moon would be at a given time. We told them how fast they would be going, and the moon will be there by the time you got there.”—Katherine Johnson

We’re highlighting a couple of important TechMAKERS this week for Women’s History Month. These women have made incredible strides in STEM, despite the challenges they faced entering professional and academic fields that are overwhelmingly male-dominated.

It was only recently, with the release of Hidden Figures, that Katherine Johnson received the public recognition she deserved. There was not much visibility granted to a woman of color working at NASA in the 1960s.

Katherine made innumerable contributions to our space program, but the most important was being part of the team that put an American on the moon. She calculated the trajectory analysis for the mission because the computer they used was known to be faulty. We repeat: Katherine Johnson’s calculations were more trusted than that of NASA’s computers. 

To see our full video profile of Katherine Johnson, head on over to MAKERS. 

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It’s TechMAKERS week over at @makerswomen‘s celebration of Women’s History Month. Which women in STEM do you think deserve recognition?

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PDA+GTA - Hammertime #bigbabyscumbag

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#iwd #battle #hiphop Lets go Familia. Barbarian Wonder-woman @atlanticrecords (at Paterson, New Jersey)

[late-nights-and-daydreams]

“I find myself In a half empty room Filled with half empty people With their chest inside out With their lives upside down. I find myself In the corner where no one dares to breath Scared to wake up the ghosts of yesterday and scared to find hope dead. I find myself In all places inhabitable In all places familiar to home And home is never a good enough place to be. I find myself In all places that remind me of all things dead and all things me. I find myself In a half empty room Filled with half empty people.”

— @ayeshasyedaa

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Always lonely

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“I looked out my window and saw smoke coming from the village across the river. At first I thought it was a casual fire. But then I heard shooting, and I saw people were trying to swim across the river. We knew that our village would be next. I grabbed what I could carry and ran toward the mountain. We hid in the bushes all day. There were thousands of us on that mountain. Anyone who tried to talk was shushed. We looked down on our village and watched them burn our houses. Before they burned mine, they carried everything out. They took all my furniture. They took two hundred bags of lentils. I’m a schoolteacher, but I owned a lot of farmland. I paid taxes on my land for decades. I have all my paperwork. I have all my receipts. But they took it all from me. I wasn’t able to bring a single grain of rice with me. These papers are all I have. They are worthless now. But my hope is that one day they’ll have value again.” ————————————— This week I’m sharing a series of first hand accounts from Rohingya refugees. The Rohingya are a persecuted ethnic minority who have been violently evicted from Myanmar by Buddhist extremists. Over the past year, nearly 700,000 Rohingya have been driven from their homes and are now residing in refugee camps in Bangladesh. Their living conditions are already dire, and monsoon season is approaching. As we share their stories, we are raising money to help build inexpensive bamboo houses for these refugees. (They are currently living in plastic tents.) Bamboo houses can be built for $600 a piece, and we’ve raised enough for nearly 1000 so far. Please consider donating: http://bit.ly/2H0w5lm

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Reality

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Gn

[azraqed]

i go to war

you tug my amour on

and kiss my forehead goodbye

you hand me my sword

you say, ‘I will not know to live without you.’

why did it take so long

so much to realise

that if you loved me

you would have fought with me

tugged your own amour on

strapped your knife to your belt

written your eulogy

painted a welcome mat for death

onto your own forehead

to swipe the soles of his feet on

as he comes for your soul

love

is not watching me suffer through your tears

is not waiting for my puppet body

it is

loyalty, supporting me through your pain

it is willing to hold me even in the throes of death.

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give it a rest #rip

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#noreastern #magic #gird #paper #listeningparty #strobelights #nymetroarea #nj #nyc #electricity #power #water #coned #pseandg #help @djharam @umfang @discwomannyc @xychelsea87 @nas @nasa listening party / strobe lights

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BET

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@discwomannyc You stalkers should checkout my homegirls. They got my back @nyjusticeleague (at Wall Street Bull, New York)

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#rando #imagery Today I made some investments in 24hrs, I made 300% profit. Plus, I never left my home except for class in the morning.

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#research #paper ⚛🔯💰🔬