#Isaias has strengthened into a major Category 3 hurricane. Infrared imagery from @NOAA’s #GOESEast (#GOES19) 🛰️ is tracking Isaias as it approaches the northern Gulf Coast, where dangerous conditions are expected—including hurricane-force winds, life-threatening storm surge, flash flooding and possible tornadoes.
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Margaret Hamilton, a computer scientist who helped NASA land on the moon, has died. She was 90.
As a young mathematician at MIT, Hamilton was the first female programmer to work on the Apollo project in the 1960s.
She went on to lead the 100-person team that wrote software for the moon mission.
In recent years, a 1969 photograph of Hamilton standing next to the printed code for the lunar landing went viral on social media.
In 2016, President Barack Obama awarded Hamilton the Medal of Freedom, saying her work "set the foundation" for modern software engineering.
I’m growing increasingly fond of weekends where I don’t have to rush around. Find a coffee shop you like, sit alone for a while, watch the people coming and going outside the window, and steal a moment of peace from your busy life.
A U.S. Marine has been arrested in Japan on suspicion of robbing and murdering a woman. The case threatens to revive tensions over America’s military presence there. https://t.co/qy1JiZfWv6
Andy Warhol: the visionary who turned everyday soup cans into high art and predicted our viral reality. As the pioneer of Pop Art, he used screenprinting to critique consumerism and fame, famously declaring that "in the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes."
On the Golden Gate Bridge, they are responsible for being "blown out by the wind," and at Fisherman's Wharf, they are responsible for being "well-fed and well-hydrated."