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A striking digital composite celebrating Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer. On the left is a vibrant, colorized restoration of her iconic 1838 portrait, showing her in a deep purple velvet gown with white lace accents and an elegant headdress. She gazes with sharp, visionary intelligence toward the right of the frame. Occupying the right side of the image is the intricate mechanical hardware of the Analytical Engine trial model - a complex assembly of vertical brass rods, interlocking gears, and polished metal dials. Floating subtly over the mechanical parts is a translucent overlay of her handwritten 1843 Bernoulli algorithm (Note G), showing the logical mathematical table that served as the world's first software. The composite beautifully illustrates the transition from 19th-century mechanical engineering to the birth of modern computing, representing Ada’s unique philosophy of "Poetical Science." The lighting unifies the historical portrait and the brass machinery into a single, cohesive moment of discovery. Credit: Seriously Scientific.

Remembering Ada Lovelace on International Women's Day!

A century before computers, she saw that machines could do more than just math.
By writing the first algorithm for the Analytical Engine, she became the world’s first programmer and predicted the digital age we live in today!💻
#WomenInScience

A striking digital composite that bridges two centuries of scientific history. On the left, a colorized version of the famous 1842 oil painting shows Mary Anning looking resolute in her practical cloak and bonnet, holding her geological hammer. On the right, the image transitions into a modern, high-definition photograph of a complete Ichthyosaurus fossil from a museum exhibition. The fossilized skeleton is embedded in dark, textured shale, showing the creature's long snout, massive ribcage, and distinctive paddles. The composite creates a "then and now" effect, placing the 19th-century pioneer right next to the raw evidence that proved the world was once ruled by extinct reptiles. The lighting on the colorized painting is matched to the museum spotlights on the fossil, making it look as though Anning is standing inside the display itself. This unique artwork highlights her role as the woman who bridged the gap between myth and the modern science of paleontology. Digital composite by Seriously Scientific.

Remembering Mary Anning on International Women's Day!

In the 1800s, the word "dinosaur" didn't even exist.

With just a hammer and chisel, Mary unearthed "sea monsters" from shale cliffs, providing the raw evidence that proved extinction and founded the science of paleontology! 🦕⛏️ #WomenInScience

A highly detailed, digitally colorized archival photograph of the pioneering experimental physicist Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu. She is positioned in the center of a complex mid-20th-century physics laboratory. Dr. Wu is smiling warmly and looking directly into the camera with an expression of calm, approachable brilliance. She has neatly styled dark hair and is wearing a crisp white laboratory coat over a dark, high-collared shirt. The digital colorization process brings realistic, warm skin tones and vibrant depth to the historic scene. Surrounding her is a spectacularly intricate maze of scientific equipment used for her groundbreaking parity violation experiments. The apparatus includes gleaming silver metal cylinders, delicate glass vacuum tubes, thick electrical wiring, large magnetic coils, and heavy steel framing. The lifelike color highlights the contrast between her confident posture and the massive technical complexity of the supercooled machinery she mastered to rewrite the laws of physics. At the bottom, a credit line reads: Original photograph by the Smithsonian Institution Archives, digital colorization by Seriously Scientific.

Remembering Chien Shiung Wu on International Women's Day!

Physicists thought the universe was perfectly symmetrical. By freezing radioactive atoms near absolute zero, Wu proved them wrong!

She found nature is actually "left-handed," fundamentally shattering the Law of Parity! 🧲⚛️

#WomenInScience

A highly detailed, digitally colorized close-up portrait of the pioneering physicist and chemist Marie Curie. She is looking directly into the camera lens with an incredibly intense, intelligent, and focused expression. The fingers of her left hand are gently resting against her cheek and neck. She has curly, textured brown hair pulled back loosely. She is wearing a dark blue, utilitarian dress with fine vertical pleats on the shoulder. The warm, realistic skin tones and soft lighting of the colorization process give this historic archival photo a highly modern, lifelike feel. Original archival photograph by Henri Manuel. Digital colorization by Seriously Scientific.

Remembering Marie Curie on International Women's Day!

Marie spent years working in a dank, leaky shed boiling down tons of toxic pitchblende to extract a 0.1 grams of pure radium.

She physically proved that atoms break apart, laying the exact foundation for cancer treatments! ☢️🔬

#WomenInScience

British chemist Dorothy Hodgkin in her laboratory in 1964. She is sitting at a wooden desk, wearing a blue cardigan and green skirt, resting her chin on her hand as she looks thoughtfully toward the camera. On the desk beside her sits a black and gold microscope and a glass display case containing a large, complex crystal structure model. To her left, bookshelves are packed with scientific texts, including a prominent red spine titled "Penicillin Crystal Structures." This image captures the Nobel Prize winner in the environment where she produced the world’s first 3D atomic maps of essential medicines like penicillin and insulin. The scene highlights her intense intellectual focus and the physical tools of her pioneering work in X-ray crystallography. Digital restoration and colorization by Seriously Scientific.

Remembering Dorothy Hodgkin on International Women's Day!

While Fleming found the mold, Hodgkin solved the 3D atomic puzzle of Penicillin.

Using X-ray crystallography, she mapped the molecule's structure, allowing it to be mass-produced and saving millions of lives! 🔬🗺️

#WomenInScience

African American chemist Alice Ball in her laboratory around 1915. She is wearing a white lab coat and a patterned blue scarf, holding a glass test tube and using a pipette to precisely transfer a liquid from a small vial. This scene represents her development of the "Ball Method," where she transformed thick Chaulmoogra tree oil into a soluble, injectable treatment for leprosy. The dark wooden laboratory bench is filled with period-accurate glassware, glass stir rods, and amber-colored bottles containing the raw oil. In the background, a metal centrifuge and laboratory cabinetry are visible. The image captures the specific moment Alice created the medical breakthrough that saved thousands from forced exile. Digital restoration and colorization by Seriously Scientific.

Remembering Alice Ball on International Women's Day!

At just 24, this brilliant chemist developed the first effective treatment for leprosy.

Her 'Ball Method' made Chaulmoogra oil injectable, saving thousands of people from lifelong isolation and exile. 🧪💉

#WomenInScience

A digitally restored, archival composite image celebrating Rosalind Franklin. On the left is a black and white portrait of the British chemist and X-ray crystallographer. She has dark, softly curled hair and is wearing a dark, tailored dress, looking thoughtfully off-camera with a focused expression. On the right side is a clear, highly enhanced reproduction of 'Photograph 51'. This is her famous X-ray diffraction image of crystallized DNA fibers. The scientific image features a dark circular background with a distinct, striking arrangement of fuzzy black spots forming a perfect 'X' shape converging in the center. The heavy dark smudges at the very top and bottom of the circle indicate the repeating bases of the genetic code. The specific angle of the 'X' physically proves the double-helix structure of the DNA molecule. At the bottom, a professional credit line reads: King's College London and Seriously Scientific.

Remembering Rosalind Franklin on International Women's Day!

Without her mastery of X-ray crystallography and the iconic 'Photo 51', discovering the DNA double helix would have been impossible.
She measured the secret of life. Her exact math made gene editing possible! 🔬🧬

#WomenInScience

Sold by Amazon it says

Question for the #Amazon shoppers.. I’m trying to order something from the Netherlands and have it delivered to a drop box in Vegas.. every selection says “temporarily unavailable”

Is that because I’m seen as outside country? Any thoughts?

I feel like a slide master these days. Creating technical, market overview, and competitive slides for three sessions of an internal kickoff in Vegas, for various topics.

Not having to present doesn't mean I can't support others: enterprise browsing, DEX, and VDI. Can't say I'm bored.

yep, only thing to hope for is Russia sending some of the home-built ones back to Iran...

... can we tell the toddler there is another dictator with drones that needs removal??

Can we get a boycott here as well??? please please, pretty please. All of Europe now hoping for a boycott; what a summer that would be. No adult-children in restaurants.

Literally

Added…

You’re not on the list?. Let me add you. -may be tomorrow though.

We all have been doing this EUC thing for a while 😉😂

Звернення Президента у четверті роковини початку повномасштабного вторгнення Росії в Україну YouTube video by Зе!Президент

Krachtige video van Zelensky, vier jaar na het begin van de invasie.

Sorry. Not a gamer.

The Soviet Union was a very weak state in those days. They tried to conquer Finland in 1939 and failed like they fail today in Ukraine

Sadly, for Trump, ships don’t conquer countries. Boots on the ground will. We have seen how well that went in Iraqand Afghanistan.

Iemand verkoopt een telraam. Tientallen door de bocht zeg maar. 😂😂

The most shocking about this is that they still got a working (flying at least) A-50…

folks so obsessed with penises should do themselves a favour and get out of the closet... There is no shame in being attracted to men. homosexuality is normal. We won't judge them..

Yesterday I had a "maintenance" day at my daughter's new apartment. While fixing some cabinets in the kitchen, a Japanese Adult calendar was found behind the fridge.

It was "sticky", so I guess the previous owner of the apartment "used" it.. I asked, but my daughter didn't want it on the wall - LOL

Both albums are great and I listened to both of them this weekend

1904: check the laughing person in the back. Things never changed.

It’s worse… every second 😉😂

#Windows-life waiting on a clock app to update

All the reasons you need to stay the hell away from there. You may look to darks skinned for your safety. The bars in Europe have plenty of parties and better food and beers. No need to risk your life for a World Cup.

..haha you, me and a lot of people… often, after many redactions, I delete the intended email. Couldn’t find a politer way of saying it.

ik ben daar skeptisch over, het zou mooi zijn dat er minder energie nodig is omdat we met andere chips of slimmer gaan werken. Ik vermoed dat we nieuwe markten vinden en meer gaan gebruiken. maar 10ha grote datacenters zullen we niet meer zien, kleiner en krachtiger zullen ze zijn.