Celebrate Eddie Mabo
Legendary human rights activist Eddie Mabo is featured in today’s Google Doddle! Among his many achievements is being part of the 1967 Referendum that removed two racist elements from the Australian Constitution and successfully leading the legal recognition of Indigenous land rights through Native Title in 1992.
Read more on his legacy as one of Australia’s most important leaders: http://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/articles/eddie-koiki-mabo
Two STEM women on Google Doodles this week! Biochemist Dorothy Hodgkin, the only British woman to win Science Nobel prize (in 1964), was on UK’s Google Doodle on Monday. Today we have mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi. The committee of the Académie des Sciences wrote that Agnesi’s work embodied “skill and sagacity.” (http://goo.gl/2YSMhO). I pusblished the following on Agnesi’s work on STEM Women. Continue reading Maria Gaetana Agnesi: The Witch of Agnesi Curve
The Other Sociologist 