Tag Archive for 'Isaac Asimov'

Ada Lovelace Day

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Kim
12 months ago
in Activism, Blogging, Culture, Feminism, History, Science and Technology
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It’s Ada Lovelace Day – a day dedicated to blogging about women in science and technology.

Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines.

This is not really my field, but the woman herself is quite fascinating – and Catriona has some great links about her life and work at Circulating Library. Continuing the local linking theme, The Memes of Production looks at the representation of female scientists in Isaac Asimov’s fiction, concluding that there’s definitely a need for this sort of celebration!

What book are you currently reading?

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tigtog
1 year, 5 months ago
in Books, Writers & Writing and Life
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Is it good so far?

I’ve seen this meme around a few blogs lately, and although I mostly refuse to do memes “properly” (i.e. I tend not to tag other people to post on the same meme) this one struck me as a good one.

My style of reading these days is to have about half a dozen books on the go, stashed in various areas of the house for when & where the yen strikes me to read a chapter or three. They are usually about half speculative fiction (science fiction and fantasy), one good mystery novel, one historical fact or fiction, and one popular science. At the moment, I confess, I’m not really stretching myself.
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