By The Downey Patriot
Lil’ Libros Publishing has acquired world rights to a bilingual five-board book STEAM series, Dr. Ochoa’s Stellar World, researched and written by Dr. Ellen Ochoa, American engineer who became the first Latina woman to go to space. Continue reading First Latina to go to space announces bilingual STEAM board book series
By CATHY FOLEY, PRAJVAL SHASTRI AND SARAH MADDISON, The Wire
All around the world, there is an extreme gender imbalance in physics, in both academia and industry. Continue reading We Must Include More Women in Physics – It Would Help the Whole of Humanity
By , The Verge
Instagram is making it easier to address people by their defined pronouns. The company announced today that it’s allowing people to add up to four pronouns to their profile, which they can then choose to display publicly or only to their followers. (Users under 18 will have this setting turned on by default.) Continue reading Instagram will let people list their pronouns on their profiles
By Julia Musto, Fox News
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission is set to launch for the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday morning. Continue reading NASA, SpaceX Crew-2 prepare for another historic flight
By Michelle Fox, CNBC
Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has a lot more on his mind these days than the sport. Continue reading Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is helping to teach STEM skills to Black and Latino students
The internet has created an abundance of information and entertainment, and it’s great. But we don’t yet have perfect ways to find movies, books, music, information and activities that we might like — and especially those that push us out of our comfort zones.
Transportation history was made today in the Nevada desert, where Virgin Hyperloop tested human travel in a hyperloop pod for the first time. Continue reading First Passengers Travel Safely on a Hyperloop
There is a good chance that most people reading this have tuned into at least one live video over the last week. It’s something that is becoming increasingly popular Continue reading Create a Live Video Community (and Why You Would Want to)
The LGBTQ+ community has made tremendous strides in the last decade. Since 2010, almost 30 countries have passed same-sex marriage laws around the world, Continue reading What Strides have the LGBTQ+ Community made in Diversity?
This past March, we celebrated Transgender Visibility Day. While this holiday can be used for people who identify as transgender to come out to their peers and celebrate being their true selves, it is also used to educate the public on the struggles of the transgender community. Continue reading What You Need to Know to be the Best Ally to All Genders
