https://padlet.com/abrown260/eklj1u92hpg5rfdk Share your enthusiasm en-us 2021-10-11 23:03:04 UTC 2024-03-29 00:56:26 UTC hello@padlet.com abrown260 https://padlet.com/abrown260/eklj1u92hpg5rfdk/wish/2490400104 "In 1679, just a year after the birth of her second daughter, Dorothea, Maria Sibylla published her first scientific book, The Wonderful Transformation and Singular Flower Food of Caterpillars … Painted from Life and Engraved in Copper. In each illustration, Maria Sibylla painted the entire life cycle of her subject, from egg to larva (caterpillar), to pupa (chrysalis), to butterfly or moth. She painted all of these different stages around the plant that was the subject’s main source of food, and wrote a short text describing her observations. This was not just a book of illustrations, but a book intended to share what she had learned with others. Her work impressed male scientists and established Maria Sibylla as an important new voice in the growing field of entomology, the study of insects."
https://wams.nyhistory.org/early-encounters/dutch-colonies/maria-sibylla-merian/#]]> 2023-02-21 23:54:52 UTC https://padlet.com/abrown260/eklj1u92hpg5rfdk/wish/2490400104 https://padlet.com/abrown260/eklj1u92hpg5rfdk/wish/2496762379 “To get a perfect American accent or British accent, that’s very hard. But to speak confidently and fluently so that other people can understand you, that can be fixed. And if there’s a lot of benefit in doing so, then why not?” Of the approximately 1.5 billion English speakers globally, the World Economic Forum estimates over 1 billion are non-native or learning English as a second language. So Van decided to do something about it, dreaming up a tech-enabled tool that could accurately detect users’ broken English and provide easy-to-follow solutions at a fraction of the cost of a tutor. 
When ELSA won South by Southwest’s 2016 start-up competition, causing the app to go viral, amassing 30,000 users within 24 hours, and granting the team access to user data from across the world. In 2019, Google’s AI-focused Gradient Ventures took total funding raised to more than $12 million and granted ELSA access to Google’s team of technical staff to help build out its backend infrastructure.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/15/how-artificial-intelligence-app-elsa-founder-won-googles-investment.html]]> 2023-02-27 17:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/abrown260/eklj1u92hpg5rfdk/wish/2496762379 https://padlet.com/abrown260/eklj1u92hpg5rfdk/wish/2497122607 Fatima Jinnah played a huge role in supporting her brother Quaid-e-Azam with his struggle to establish an independent Muslim Nation and partition of India in 1947. 
"Fatima Jinnah, widely known as Māder-e Millat, was a Pakistani stateswoman, politician, dental surgeon and one of the leading founders of Pakistan. She was the younger sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founding father and the first Governor General of Pakistan."]]> 2023-02-27 22:49:23 UTC https://padlet.com/abrown260/eklj1u92hpg5rfdk/wish/2497122607 https://padlet.com/abrown260/eklj1u92hpg5rfdk/wish/2505638297 Frida Kahlo Was a Mexican painter. She was known for her self portraits and paintings inspired by nature and artifacts of Mexico. Although she was disabled by polio as a child, Kahlo had been a promising student headed for medical school until being injured in a bus accident at the age of 18, which caused her lifelong pain and medical problems. During her recovery, she returned to her childhood interest in art with the idea of becoming an artist. A severe bus accident at the age of 18 left Kahlo in lifelong pain. Confined to bed for three months following the accident, Kahlo began to paint. She started to consider a career as a medical illustrator, as well, which would combine her interests in science and art. Her mother provided her with a specially made easel, which enabled her to paint in bed, and her father lent her some of his oil paints. She had a mirror placed above the easel, so that she could see herself. Painting became a way for Kahlo to explore questions of identity and existence. She explained, "I paint myself because I am often alone and I am the subject I know best. "She later stated that the accident and the isolating recovery period made her desire "to begin again, painting things just as [she] saw them with [her] own eyes and nothing more."]]> 2023-03-06 18:41:41 UTC https://padlet.com/abrown260/eklj1u92hpg5rfdk/wish/2505638297 https://padlet.com/abrown260/eklj1u92hpg5rfdk/wish/2505890710 Affectionately called “R.B.G.” by her supporters, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has inspired generations of women to break gender barriers. Even after facing gender discrimination as she pursued her academic goals, Ginsburg forged ahead and became the second woman--and first Jewish woman--to serve on the Supreme Court.

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