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Historia: 100 mujeres que cambiaron el mundo
Un repaso de los grandes hitos de la historia que han sucedido gracias a nosotras.
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No es la primera (ni la última) vez que las mujeres marcan un antes y un después en la Historia.
A lo largo de la historia, muchas mujeres han luchado por conseguir un espacio destacado en un mundo que parecía ser dominado por los hombres.
Muchos avances y costumbres han cambiado a lo largo de los años gracias a su esfuerzo que, de una forma u otra, ha marcado un antes y un después
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BOOKS | REVIEWS: Half Lives
Long before scientists split the atom, quacks and con artists were splitting the profits.
by New York Daily News
Jul. 17 2021 @ 4:59pm Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium by Lucy Jane Santos. (Pegasus Books/TNS)
Half Lives
by Lucy Jane Santos; Pegasus Books (336, $27.99)
Long before scientists split the atom, quacks and con artists were splitting the profits.
Marie and Pierre Curie s pioneering scientific work was 50 years old before America dropped the A-bomb. But the onslaught of atomic gadgets, radioactive tonics and other potentially lethal nonsense?
That followed almost immediately.
Lucy Jane Santos Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium digs into the element s weird history. It begins with hungry curiosity and self-sacrificing dedication.
10 Ridiculous Things The Victorians Did In The Name Of Science
The words “Victorian science” bring to mind sober men with ridiculous facial hair peering through microscopes. What it doesn’t bring to mind are certifiable lunatics trying to fly into space, electrocute their genitals, and teach dogs the alphabet. Yet that’s exactly what researchers of the day were up to.
10 Trying To Take A Hot Air Balloon Into Space
If scientist James Glaisher had had his way, the first manned spaceflight would have taken place 100 years before Yuri Gagarin’s. That’s because 1862 was the year that Glaisher and Henry Coxwell set off in their hot air balloon for the “aerial ocean” above. Their government-funded flight took off from Wolverhampton on September 5. Almost immediately, things went horribly wrong.
Review: Radium s radical radioactive history | the entertainer gazettetimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazettetimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.