Post #2190605
2022-12-30 20:25 UTC
The NYT had to change the first line from “She made a mean beef stroganoff…” to “She was a brilliant rocket scientist…”
This was only nine years ago!
Replies (4)
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@mcnees@mastodon.social 2022-12-30 23:57
Anyway, Yvonne Brill’s hydrazine resistojet, first used on a satellite in 1983, is still an industry standard.
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@KeithDevlin@fediscience.org 2022-12-30 20:39
@mcnees@mastodon.social I'm not confident the NYT would get it right even today. It's a sorry shadow of what it once was 🙄
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@Drquuxum@tech.lgbt 2022-12-30 21:08
@mcnees@mastodon.social Hmm, I wonder why I don't recall seeing her mentioned in John D. Clark's "Ignition!"...I WONDER. (I don't wonder at all)
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@AnnFinkbeiner@sciencemastodon.com 2022-12-30 22:09
@mcnees@mastodon.social It's my whole claim to fame, being the Finkbeiner of the Finkbeiner Test.