Geraldyn “Jerrie” Cobb (1931-2019)

scored in the top 2% of ALL candidates on Mercury program screening tests
7k flying hours
1st woman to fly #ParisAirShow
ferried military aircraft in WWII
set 3 world #aviation records
#pilot, flight instructor, mechanic, aviation executive

#NASA restricted the Mercury program to military test pilots, effectively men only

NASA photograph GRC-1960-C-53088 "Pilot Jerrie Cobb Trains in the Multi-Axis Space Test Inertia Facility"
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She flung roses into the audience one by one, then flung the basket, then flung the castanets. Critics noted she could sing everything except notes. Cole Porter came anyway. Florence Foster Jenkins — the most devoted musician who ever performed in spite of her gifts.

https://oddlet.com/p/0wv

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New review: Complementing other recent books on the Challenger expedition, The Wake of HMS Challenger brings a focus all of its own to the subject and firmly stands on its own two feet as a thoroughly enjoyable work of science history.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2026/03/31/book-review-the-wake-of-hms-challenger-how-a-legendary-victorian-voyage-tells-the-story-of-our-oceans-decline/

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☀️ 🇧🇷 🗞️ Eclipse on paper: The 1919 total solar eclipse in Brazilian newspapers

"In this article, we offer an analysis of the 1919 eclipse coverage across Brazilian newspapers at national, state, regional, and local levels, published respectively at the cities of Rio de Janeiro, Belém do Pará, Camocim, and Sobral, to reveal how much locality shaped the contents and styles of news."

Carolino, L. M., & Simões, A. (2026). Eclipse on paper: The 1919 total solar eclipse in Brazilian newspapers. History of Science, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00732753261419603

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Science #HistSci #Brazil #Newspaper #Academia

https://jacobin.com/2022/03/dada-movement-radical-weimar-republic-political-art
#Dada #Dadaism

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He proposed germ theory two centuries before Pasteur, built one of Europe's first public museums, and enjoyed the patronage of four popes. He was also wrong about nearly everything — including the hieroglyphics he had chiseled, in stone, into a fountain that still stands in Piazza Navona. Meet Athanasius Kircher: the most confident man in seventeenth-century Europe.

https://oddlet.com/p/vlo

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