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79¢. By some calculations, that’s how much a woman earns for every dollar a man earns. It represents the wage gap.

For some women—women of color, trans women—it’s as low as 43 cents. Maybe worse.

$15.00. That’s the cost of this tote bag that fights the wage gap.

All profits go to UltraViolet, an advocacy group working to expand women’s rights—especially women of color and LGBTQ+ women.

(via May-Britt Moser - Biographical)

Prize motivation: "for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain" ; Field: physiology, spatial behavior

Discovered the Brain's Positioning System.

Why We’re Learning To Lean Out

This is a post from Denise Chan, Content Marketing Manager

We’ve been doing something new at Bitly lately. We’ve been making more of a priority to lean out as a team. We realized that, for all the talk about how startups should do more, faster, there’s a lot more value to slowing down and taking a moment to sit back and allow your long-term objectives to fall into focus.

There will always be competing opportunities that vie for our attention, but if we don’t make it our number one priority to address fundamental challenges, everything else will be done in vain. That’s why, our CEO, Mark Josephson asks the Bitly team one question every day:

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Reinventing the Wheel

Planning a trip to the Moon? Mars? You’re going to need good tires…

Exploration requires mobility. And whether you’re on Earth or as far away as the Moon or Mars, you need good tires to get your vehicle from one place to another. Our decades-long work developing tires for space exploration has led to new game-changing designs and materials. Yes, we’re reinventing the wheel—here’s why.

Wheels on the Moon

Early tire designs were focused on moving hardware and astronauts across the lunar surface. The last NASA vehicle to visit the Moon was the Lunar Roving Vehicle during our Apollo missions. The vehicle used four large flexible wire mesh wheels with stiff inner frames. We used these Apollo era tires as the inspiration for new designs using newer materials and technology to better function on a lunar surface.

Up springs a new idea

During the mid-2000s, we worked with industry partner Goodyear to develop the Spring Tire, an airless compliant tire that consists of several hundred coiled steel wires woven into a flexible mesh, giving the tires the ability to support high loads while also conforming to the terrain. The Spring Tire has been proven to generate very good traction and durability in soft sand and on rocks.

Spring Tires for Mars

A little over a year after the Mars Curiosity Rover landed on Mars, engineers began to notice significant wheel damage in 2013 due to the unexpectedly harsh terrain. That’s when engineers began developing new Spring Tire prototypes to determine if they would be a new and better solution for exploration rovers on Mars.

In order for Spring Tires to go the distance on Martian terrain, new materials were required. Enter nickel titanium, a shape memory alloy with amazing capabilities that allow the tire to deform down to the axle and return to its original shape.

These tires can take a lickin’

After building the shape memory alloy tire, Glenn engineers sent it to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Mars Life Test Facility. It performed impressively on the punishing track.

Why reinvent the wheel? It’s worth it.

New, high performing tires would allow lunar and Mars rovers to explore greater regions of the surface than currently possible. They conform to the terrain and do not sink as much as rigid wheels, allowing them to carry heavier payloads for the same given mass and volume. Also, because they absorb energy from impacts at moderate to high speeds, there is potential for use on crewed exploration vehicles which are expected to move at speeds significantly higher than the current Mars rovers.

Airless tires on Earth

Maybe. Recently, engineers and materials scientists have been testing a spinoff tire version that would work on cars and trucks on Earth. Stay tuned as we continue to push the boundaries on traditional concepts for exploring our world and beyond.  

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com.  

Yahoo Finance Adds Cryptocurrency Trading Capabilities

Last year, Yahoo Finance added over 100 cryptocurrency quote pages across all platforms globally, giving audiences the unique ability to track coins and stay informed on the digital currency craze.

Yahoo Finance is now allowing users to act on that information, and trade cryptocurrency directly through its platform. The new feature, launched this week on the iOS app, allows users to buy and sell a variety of cryptocurrencies by linking their account – via an integration with our partners at TradeIt –  including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Dogecoin.  Android, desktop and mobile web are coming soon.

“As the leading provider of financial data, insights, and editorial content, we are constantly looking for ways to better serve audiences on the Yahoo Finance platform,” said Joanna Lambert, General Manager of Finance & Tech at Oath. “We first launched our integration with Trade It one year ago, allowing people to trade on Yahoo Finance for the first time ever.  We’re excited to expand this offering to cryptocurrencies, further connecting our passionate community of investors with relevant utilities on our trusted platform.”

Log in to Yahoo Finance to learn more.

Where these vertical take-off and landing jets are going, they don’t need roads.

Giveaways

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Health on Flipboard

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Leading our Wellness email today is story from @npr, “Patients Cared For By Female Doctors Fare Better Than Those Treated By Men.”

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