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We wished to think cops communication for sponsoring this venules been used in the college of science. The presentation will last one hour including questions and answers please hold the questions to the and. Immediately following the session the authors will autograph books at the bookstore tent on the of all bouffe 141. Books are available for purchase at this location. The of the will be 20 minutes late to signing books with a 20 minute interview with cspan. Text friend 52 04 14 book. I feel like i am in car talk. [laughter] your gift makes a difference to keep the program free of charge with critical literacy programs in our community. If at of respect for fellow audience members i urge you to turn off yourself alone and it is my pleasure to introduce the two authors we have here with us known for a variety of books that i think was reversed one comment i originally a New York Times reporter of psychology and somehow went to the dark side laugh laugh and she has a National Science
One hour including questions and answers please hold the questions to the and. Immediately following the session the authors will autograph books at the bookstore tent on the of all bouffe 141. Books are available for purchase at this location. The of the will be 20 minutes late to signing books with a 20 minute interview with cspan. Text friend 52 04 14 book. I feel like i am in car talk. [laughter] your gift makes a difference to keep the program free of charge with critical literacy programs in our community. If at of respect for fellow audience members i urge you to turn off yourself alone and it is my pleasure to introduce the two authors we have here with us known for a variety of books that i think was reversed one comment i originally a New York Times reporter of psychology and somehow went to the dark side laugh laugh and she has a National Science board publicservice award for and as a microbiologist working with nasa general in the first book that she wrote was called cured
History of women in the sciences. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Welcome to the ninth annual tucson festival of books. We wished to think cops communication for sponsoring this venules been used in the college of science. The presentation will last one hour including questions and answers please hold the questions to the and. Immediately following the session the authors will autograph books at the bookstore tent on the of all bouffe 141. Books are available for purchase at this location. The of the will be 20 minutes late to signing books with a 20 minute interview with cspan. Text friend 52 04 14 book. I feel like i am in car talk. [laughter] your gift makes a difference to keep the program free of charge with critical literacy programs in our community. If at of respect for fellow audience members i urge you to turn off yourself alone and it is my pleasure to introduce the two authors we have here with us known for a variety of books that i think was reversed one comment
Nathalia holt who is here today talk about the research of your new book called rise of the rocket girls. Guest thanks for having me. Host i would like to begin hall you discover this group of women and how you managed to write about this group of women . It is a strange coincidence. My husband and i were expecting our first baby in 2010 having a difficult time coming up with names. One suggested Eleanor Francis and i wasnt sure and tell i googled name Eleanor Francis helene and i was just done by the picture i had no idea that women worked at that time so i found out Eleanor Francis was not alone that jet propulsion is laboratory there were no computers so that a time a computer men to a person that computes. Host how did this group of women come together with that was rare . Just because of macy roberts who started at the jet Propulsion Laboratory near the inception and then made supervisor of the computers and while she had meant that applied she decided she wanted to make it all wo