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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: Hidden Figures
Description: I’ve always been something of a nut when it comes to the space program…but even though I’ve read all the books, seen all the documentaries, and watched all the movies, I was still surprised to learn something new with the movie “Hidden Figures”…
This was a 2016 film based on a book of the same name…it told the true story about black female mathematicians who worked at nasa during the hottest period of the space race…
They were “computers” in the original sense of the word: people who computer things complex things like flight trajecto...