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Sunday Afternoon Thread: 2018 Gone But Not Forgotten
This week we pay homage to musical artists we lost in 2018. Dennis Edwards (February 3, 1943 – February 1, 2018) … [Read more...] about Sunday Afternoon Thread: 2018 Gone But Not Forgotten
Friday Afternoon Thread: Holiday Songs
Saturday Open Thread: Black Geniuses That Inspire
David Harold Blackwell (April 24, 1919 – July 8, 2010) was an American statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and Bayesian statistics. He is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem. He was the first African American inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, the first black tenured … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: Black Geniuses That Inspire
Friday Open Thread: Black Geniuses That Inspire
Percy Lavon Julian (April 11, 1899 – April 19, 1975) was an African American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine, and a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols such … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Black Geniuses That Inspire