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This week on the Bosses Who Brunch podcast, we traveled to New Orleans for CollisionConf, where we met Soraya M'rini of Belgibeer. We talked with Soraya about being a woman in a traditionally male space (including the investor at the conference who didn't believe she knew anything about beer) and got some insight into the distinctly Belgian market. Listen to the podcast here!

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Announcing the Bosses Who Brunch podcast! In our first episode, we talk with Laura West and Sophia Berman of Trusst Lingerie. These ladies are using bridge engineering principles to redesign a product that has not been updated in nearly a century -- women's bras. Listen to the conversation here: http://whitehatmag.com/2016/08/04/episode-1-laura-west-sophia-berman-trusst-lingerie/

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Chien-Shuing Wu was a woman in science who completely changed our understanding of physics. 

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In 1925, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin discovered the composition of the sun in her PhD thesis. The astronomy community didn't believe her findings until four years later, when a male colleague published the discovery as his own.

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“Humans are allergic to change. I try to fight that.” - Grace Hopper

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New brain research shows you really need to stop bragging about how little you sleep.

And it has implications for how we treat Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and more. Photo by peterned (cc).

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According to a report from Dutch NGO Fern, there’s a lot of coal mining still happening in our forests, and we know very little about where its happening or its effects.

Read about the report here. Photo copyright Mihai Stoica.

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The Paris COP21 notable for the large number of businesses who traveled to France in order to make sure their voices were heard by policy-makers and government officials. 

Watch a chat with two entrepreneurs in North America, from PK Clean and Tzoa here!

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Africa is currently one of the fastest developing regions in the world, with six of the world’s top ten fastest growing economies hailing from the continent. As economies reach GDP growth rates of 6% and 7%, the continent finds itself in need of an influx of foreign investment, venture capital, and smart public-private partnerships to build the infrastructure needed to sustain such growth.

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What does the Paris agreement on climate change mean, and will it be effective?

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On January 1, 2016, the United Nations’ new development agenda came into effect. So what are the Sustainable Development Goals, and what do they mean for the future of the world? Read about it here!

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Have you read our first edition yet? It’s free! Get it here!

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Chrisella Herzog, WhiteHat Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, sat down with P3 Utah to talk about her vision for the magazine on the P3 People Podcast.

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Apple’s clash with the FBI over breaking into a user’s iPhone has reopened an ongoing debate: what right to privacy do we have in our digital communications? We asked a digital rights attorney for her thoughts on the global digital privacy conversation.

Read the interview here!

Image by Surian Soosay (CC license).

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Will the Paris Climate Agreement stop climate change? Not by itself.

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Want to write for WhiteHat Magazine?

CALL FOR ARTICLES: WOMEN IN STEM (SPRING 2016)

WhiteHat Magazine is looking for articles to be published Spring 2015 in our annual Women in STEM edition. Topics we are looking for include, but are not limited to:

• Research, inventions, or innovations by women in STEM fields • Profiles of women entrepreneurs, founders, or innovators, especially women of color or women located outside of the United States • Challenges addressing diversity in STEM fields

Find out more here!

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Do you know where your computer goes after you get rid of it? Most people don’t.