10 Ways Women Can Beat Back Misogyny In The Tech World: Part 3
In this third and final installment, we examine a series of positive ways that women in tech can rise up against an institutional climate of separation.
Bell Laboratories
A Brief History Of Silicon Valley … Or … The Soil That Sprouted Tesla
Pop quiz: You arrive at the annual church picnic in your brand new Tesla. You park amidst a variety of gasoline, hybrid, and plug-in hybrid vehicles. Having the only pure electric vehicle at the event, you are soon surrounded by a crowd of gawkers, cooing and praising your beautiful automobile. … [continued]
Photovoltaics Miniseries #9: Saved by Silicon – Part 2
This ninth entry of Photovoltaics Miniseries celebrating the UN’s 2015 Year of Light features JohnPerlin, author of Let It Shine: The 6000-Year Story of Solar Energy, looking further at the impact of the semiconductor revolution and its principal material, silicon.For those who may have missed an episode in this miniseries, here … [continued]
Celebrating The 60th Anniversary Of The First Practical Solar Cell — From Powering Ferris Wheels…
By John Perlin, author of Let It Shine: The 6000-Year Story of Solar Energy. Photo’s courtesy of AT&T archive. Sixty years ago on April 25, 1954, Bell Laboratories demonstrated to the world one of the most significant breakthroughs ever recorded in the history of solar energy and of electricity – the first solar … [continued]
