Posts Tagged ‘Nellie Bly’
Tidbits and notes posted on FB and Twitter. Part 230
Note: I take notes of books I read and comment on events and edit sentences that fit my style. I pay attention to researched documentaries and serious links I receive. The page of backlog opinions and events is long and growing like crazy, and the sections I post contains a month-old events that are worth refreshing your memory
La haine est proche de l’amour, quand le mepris lui est etranger
Female reporter/journalist Maryse Choisy (1903-1979). Removed her tits to cover the Greek monasteries
Female reporter/journalist Mireille Maroger (1905-1937). Visited the prisons of exiled people in Cayenne
Female reporter/journalist US Nellie Bly (1864-1922). Covered the asylums “10 days in an asylum”
Female reporter/journalist Martha Gellhom (1908-1998). “Mes saisons en enfer” , “5 voyages cauchemardesques”, ” J’ai vu la misere”, “L’Amerique en crise”
Muhammad Ali’s famous words when he refused to take part in the Vietnam war. It’s time to remember these words as the world is busy bombing Syria. Sabyasachi Chatterji‘s post.. March 22 at 10:57pm ·
“There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced.” David Hume
Female Genius Changes the World, One Big Idea at a Time
This Team of Female Astronomers Revolutionized Our Understanding of Stars
This video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y’s 7 Days of Genius Festival.
The most fundamental knowledge we have of stars comes from a team of Harvard astronomers working at the turn of the 19th century. This team, known as the “Harvard computers” for their ambitious calculations, was composed entirely of females.
As astronomer Anna Frebel explains, male researchers were interested in galaxies — the day’s hot topic. As a result, women pioneered the field of stellar research. Their methods of cataloging stars and determining their chemical composition are still taught at universities today.

