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Photo: Tambay A. Obenson"This is the kind of wonderfully atypical Civil Rights-era story that gets me excited!" according to Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act.Margot Lee Shetterly. Photo: NASA/David C. BowmanAuthor Margot Lee Shetterly’s book, "Hidden Figures," which actually won't be published until next year, via HarperCollins, has been optioned for Ted Melfi to direct (he's the director of last year's acclaimed dramedy "St. Vincent," which starred Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, and Naomi Watts. Terrence Howard played a supporting role in the film, which was Melfi's feature directorial debut).Shetterly's "Hidden Figures" tells the untold true story of the African American women mathematicians - Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan, Kathryn Peddrew, Sue Wilder, Eunice Smith and Barbara Holley - who worked at NASA during the Civil Rights era. The book will tell their story through the personal accounts of 4 specific women that then-NASA staffers referred to as "the colored computers." Shetterly, whose father was one of the first African American engineers employed by NASA, is a journalist.According to Deadline, the book was optioned and developed by producer Donna Gigliotti (producer of Oscar-caliber fare like "Shakespeare In Love" and "Silver Linings Playbook"), with Allison Schroeder penning the screenplay adaptation, which Fox is in talks to acquire, with an early 2016 production start date eyed.Unfortunately, the book won't be out until next year; but I did come across the following statement from the author on her motivations for writing it: "You've heard the names John Glenn, Alan Shepard and Neil Armstrong. What about Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan, Kathryn Peddrew, Sue Wilder, Eunice Smith or Barbara Holley? Most Americans have no idea that from the 1940s through the 1960s, a cadre of African-American women formed part of the country’s space work force, or that this group—mathematical ground troops in the Cold War—helped provide NASA with the raw computing power it needed to dominate the heavens...Check out the author's website here, which is where I lifted the above statement.Read more... Source: Indie Wire (blog)

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"Space  Throughout history the misuse of the concept of space has wreaked havoc in physics. Judging by the many strange comments on articles at MyNews24, confusion about this insidious ‘thing’ called space is rife." reports Sean Brennan. Mosaic from Pompeii depicting Plato's academyBefore I begin, I wish to state unequivocally that space is nothing.  I also wish to also state that I am not saying that there are no known or as yet undiscovered particles in our universe amongst the spaces between larger entities.To understand how we think of space, let us look at the history of the concept. The ancient Greeks had assumed that the universe was finite. But when the Greek atomists put forth the idea of empty space as a separate reality, distinct from matter, they were driven to accept the idea of an infinite universe. For what could possibly limit the extent of empty space?If empty space was nothing and yet a reality, there didn’t seem any sense to the claim that it could stop. After all, nothingness has no edge or boundary, so what could possibly stop, or end? Those clever Greeks didn’t want to look like idiots and say that the nothingness only extended so far and beyond that; was really, really nothing,(like their present economic situation)Go to this link, and ask yourself; what is all that black stuff, outside of the galaxies, stars and space that surrounds this artists inflating universe depiction? http://cdn.phys.org/newman/gfx/news/hires/2015/bigbang.jpg Many misconceptions arise because the people that study our universe have to think of it as an entity in order to get their heads around this thing and depict it as such to explain their theories. I think that they cause more confusion than anything else when it comes to the common man’s understanding of the concept of the universe. Does keeping the common man happy and correctly informed rank very highly on theoretical physicists agendas?It was Aristotle that recognized that we do not start off with the concept of empty space. We rather start off by observing entities, (objects), their relative arrangement, and the changes in the arrangement. These observations then give rise to the concept of place, or position. The concept of space then merely means a sum of places.Let’s look at an example. You have an empty room, and you ask your wife what she wants to do with the space. This is a perfectly valid use of the concept of space. What you mean is; you have a sum of places; how are we going to place items in respect to one another within the surrounding walls of the room. What you definitely don’t mean is; that we have space here, do we want to move this space to the kitchen, where more space would be handier, or should we leave it where it is!This example may sound stupid, but Aristotle showed that it was this very same silliness that characterized his predecessor’s views on space. They treated space as if it were a thing with its own separate existence apart from bodies. What really is happening; is that the concept of space derives from the earlier concept of place, which refers to relationships among physical entities. Space does not exist apart from bodies (objects), simply because relationships do not exist apart from entities that are related. The distance between the tip of your nose and your screen as you read this, is a space...Next i will look into Einstein’s space, and the concepts of space-time and fields. Read more...References: http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/ssavitt/Courses/Phil462A/Aristotle%20on%20Space.pdfWhat is Space by David Harriman. (Lecture/adaptation)  https://einstein.stanford.edu/index.htmlLeonard Peikoff. "Philosophy: Who Needs It" (book)http://www.catholicstand.com/kalam-cosmological-argument-fails/ Source: News24 

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The face of the "average" college student is changing. Seventy-five percent of today’s students (mostly adult learners) are juggling some combination of family commitment, job, and education, while commuting to campus, according to Complete College America.1 Growing demands placed on working adult learners can make higher education seem unattainable, inflexible, and unrealistic. For too many people […]

Photo: Geoffrey Mock"To understand Newton's genius, Duke professor recreates the intellectual world of 1700." according to Geoffrey Mock, Manager of Internal Communications, Duke Today.The argument that Isaac Newton was the greatest scientist ever gets a lot of support these days, but there’s one important person who might disagree: Newton himself.NewtonIn his new book "Newton," Duke philosophy professor Andrew Janiak makes the case for considering Newton as Newton himself did - a "natural philosopher." This isn't just a quirk of language; Janiak says it's essential to understanding his remarkable achievements.Born on Christmas Day in 1642, Newton benefited from what we call the Scientific Revolution, but Janiak writes that the word "scientist" didn't come into use until more than two centuries later. There was no consensus on issues such as the value of math or experimental results in describing the world. The great thinkers of the time closely tied their study of the world with philosophical discussions of the nature of matter and their belief in God.The one consensus of the great thinkers of the time was that the world ran on mechanistic principles and that the role of the scholar was to describe the method of the workings of the world, much in the way they would describe the workings of a clock. Descartes, for example, believed planets moved around the sun because of a vortex in which particles carried the planets in their orbit.Janiak said Newton's genius was to ignore all this. His major work, "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy" - frequently referred to as "Principia" - represents a break from the beliefs of the time and constitutes Newton's defense against criticisms from leading philosophers of the day, particularly Gottfried Leibniz and his followers.Portrait of Isaac Newton, around 1715. Photo: English School via Wikimedia CommonsBelow, Janiak discusses his book in a conversation with Geoffrey Mock of Duke Today. Read more... Source: Duke Today

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"Not everyone can say they had a teacher that was recognized by the White House itself. That is not the case for former students of Melissa Colonis’ math class." continues wlfi.com. http://wlfi.com/2015/07/13/local-math-teacher-recognized-by-white-house/Colonis, now a calculus and algebra teacher at Jefferson High School, was recognized for her work at Tecumseh Junior High School where she taught seventh-grade math. She was awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, and News 18 This Morning spoke to her about the accomplishment.Two teachers were chosen from each state, and Colonis said she learned of her big win at the beginning of July while on a college tour with her son and husband.When we asked her why she taught, Colonis said she thinks that’s what she was meant to do.Read more... Source: wlfi.com