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- Could you give up flying? Meet the no-plane pioneers https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2019/may/22/could-you-give-up-flying-meet-the-no-plane-pioneers 3 comments
- Meet ELIZA: The Pioneering AI Chatbot of 1966 That Started It All! https://web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/eliza.html 12 comments technology
- SI: Women's wrestling pioneer Lita admires current WWE female wreslers: “They’re fearless in a way that they don’t know there were boundaries and limitations placed on them subconsciously. They have fostered an environment where they meet every challenge and exceed expectations that's infectious." https://www.si.com/wrestling/2023/04/28/lita-wwe-most-wanted-treasures-new-season 6 comments squaredcircle
- Meet Team Trans, the pioneering hockey team for transgender and nonbinary athletes in the Twin Cities https://www.startribune.com/ice-hockey-transgender-nonbinary-sports-minnesota-twin-cities/600260579/ 6 comments upliftingnews
- Meet the pioneers running Kyrgyzstan’s all-woman space agency https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/11356/photography-kyrgyzstan-pioneers-satellite-space-school-all-women 5 comments space
- Tony Brooker, Pioneer of Computer Programming, Dies at 94 | After meeting Alan Turing, Mr. Brooker went to work at the University of Manchester and wrote the programming language for the first commercial computer. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/13/technology/tony-brooker-dead.html 68 comments programming
- Donald Trump, Meet Your Precursor | Andrew Johnson pioneered the recalcitrant racism and impeachment-worthy subterfuge the president is fond of. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/29/opinion/sunday/andrew-johnson-donald-trump.html 16 comments politics
- Meet the Amateur Rocketeer Building Self-Landing Replicas of SpaceX Rockets - Joe Barnard has spent the last three years pioneering DIY landing technologies for amateur rockets and now the aerospace industry is paying attention. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvakmw/meet-the-amateur-rocketeer-building-self-landing-replicas-of-spacex-rockets 7 comments space
- "The man volunteering to be the guinea pig for pioneering head transplant surgery is flying to America this week to meet for the first time the doctor intending to give him a new body." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3117029/i-m-not-going-crazy-cut-head-disabled-man-volunteering-head-transplant-meet-surgeon-time-tomorrow-insists-ll-knife-99-possible.html 9 comments worldnews
- Meet the groundbreaking new technology set to revolutionize privacy and freak out the feds. Send any file up to 60mb encrypted p2p with this pioneering surveillance-proof smartphone app. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/02/silent_circle_s_latest_app_democratizes_encryption_governments_won_t_be.html 3 comments technology
- Meet the NBA’s pioneering new play-by-play voices: Lisa Byington and Kate Scott on their trailblazing paths https://theathletic.com/2863466/2021/10/04/meet-the-nbas-pioneering-new-play-by-play-voices-lisa-byington-and-kate-scott-on-their-trailblazing-paths/ 6 comments nba
- Pirates, pioneers, or petty thieves? Majsan Boström meets Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij, two of the leading figures from file-sharing giant The Pirate Bay. http://www.thelocal.se/14688.html 10 comments technology