Technology

Great interview with inventor of Kevlar, Stephanie Kwolek (RIP)

Like | robinna | Jun 23, 2014 | Creativity, History of Technology, Innovation, Interviews, STEM, Technology, Women in Technology

I love this story. RIP, Stephanie Kwolek. “I love learning and I’m love learning new things, making discoveries… while her mother encourage creativity and even a future in fashion design,  her father was a naturalist and inspired stephanie’s curiosity about the outdoors.     I had a father who was very much interested and plants and trees. I spent a lot of time just roaming ...

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Mexico’s statement to support OA

Like | robinna | Jun 17, 2014 | open access, Technology

Just last week, Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto announced via his official webpage the enactment of reforms to several federal law frameworks concerning science, technology and education that will allegedly “insert Mexico into the Information and Knowledge Society”. The legislation changes, he claimed, would:• Give access to Mexicans open access to the scientific and academic production that is financed trough public money. • Allow online ...

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