Quote of the Day - Katherine Johnson, turn 100 years old this week
"We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics."
-- Katherine Johnson, calculated Apollo Space Missions by HandI am pro STEM of course. However, I read a brutal article recently about the entire societal infrastructure being brought crashing to its knees via the intertwined/embedded internet. As such, I dust off my abacus and slide rule every once in awhile just in case.
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