The another addition to help but share the dirty of uprooted this story of the intersection of the Civil Rights Era this space race to the cold war and genders equality. What have been done this date . And the september 8. Far the founder of the few men computer project in the recipient of the Virginia Foundation and the humanities grant for the history of women in the end computing. Virginia woolf would said ahoy from a novice n history was usually a will then. I will say that again. But tonight brilliant women are ominous no more. Made that names of the l. Levin who contributed to this space race finally recede their dues. Now i want to remind everyone that to be here at the book signing the will be here after words and the great hall. And cspan would ask me to say they ask for no flash photography. Did we will cleo to the bcf did invite you to make history with us. It is with great pleasure and honor that i introduce my friend. [applause] thanks for that nbc introduction. Banks to t
Untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race. Hear her journey about writing this remarkable story that combines the rich intersection of the civil rights era, the space race, the cold war and the movement for gender equality. As an anthropologist with an admiration for history, i was curious about this date, september 8th. What happened with nasa on this date. So september 8th, 1967, the surveyor v launched. 1983, sat com vii launched. And today, september 8th, 2016, Margot Lee Shetterly publicly launches her book [laughter] Hidden Figures into the literary world. [applause] so a little bit on margot. I know many of you you know her, or went to school with her. Margot was raised right here in hampton, virginia. She graduated from the university of virginia with a degree in finance. A journalist, independent researcher, entrepreneur and cocreator of an englishlanguage monthly magazine with her husband, aaron, margot is the daughter of one of the first na
As 20 21 begins, cities across the world sing in the new year with smaller than usual events. 2021. There are growing concerns about a new variant of the coronavirus after more analysis confirmed it has a much quicker rate of transmission than the original strain. The variant has not been identified in at least 17 countries around the world after it was originally found here in the uk. It has led to a big increase in cases in britain and hospitals are under severe stress with Emergency Health care staff said to be at battle stations. Our Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes reports. It might be a new year, but there is no letup in the pressure on hospitals in london and the south east. A surge in seriously ill Covid Patients means staff are being pushed to the limit. Intensive care beds are a real pinch point. Some patients have been moved from kent to bristol and plymouth where there is a spare capacity. Thatin where there is a spare capacity. That in itself is not unheard of but docto
Voters, between the ages of 18 to 34, by 2020 theyll be the largest segment of the american electorate. Theyre not part of this trend. White millennials will almost certainly not vote for donald trump, young white people. The children. Heather mcghee, fernand amandi. Well be right back here on saturday after joy reids bonus hour. Well be here, if my voice makes it. Be sure to tune in for that. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Do you know that i have magic throat lozenges that cure everything . Ill go right to your office and steal them. They sell them at my bodega. I think theyre illegal. Thanks for being with us here this friday night, this friday before the election. Its very exciting. Im very excited. When john f. Kennedy beat
midmanhattan with our rca 501 computer. Only onetent of the total vote is in, were going to have what we call projections. Thats estimates on what the final vote will be in a popular and then what the final vote will be in the Electoral College. Heres
Following day, the day after election. But that race was nuts. This is great. Ive got something to show you. This is great. Michael beschloss tipped us off on to this stuff. We went into the archives and found out today. Part of what was nuts about watching the election returns in 1960, was in addition to the drama of the close race and 40 was winning and where and whether or not that was really a concession, do you think that was a concession . In addition to all the native, organic drama of that contest, that night in 1960 was also the night that the tv networks chose to unveil their brandnew mysterious, unknowable computing machines. That was basically the tv side show act that year alongside the election. These gigantic beeping machines that could somehow tell who was going to win. Watch this. In another part of the city, the rca 501 computer is beginning to whirl away digesting these numbers faster than we can even utter them. Im down in wall street in midmanhattan with our rca 50