THE VIDEO SHELF · diversity in science
Neil Degrasse Tyson on being Black, and Women in Science
A short clip of Neil deGrasse Tyson answering a question about why there are not more women in science. He describes the resistance he faced as a Black kid pursuing science and the systemic barriers many people encounter.
Why HN readers recommended it
Linked in diversity-in-tech threads as a personal, thoughtful answer on systemic barriers for minorities and women in science.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- D- Angel
- Topic
- diversity in science
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2017
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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While it's true that women and men aren't the same, I think that there are good reasons to believe the level of inequality we have now is not due solely to natural inclination. This video of Neil deGrasse Tyson on minorities and science is apropos: …
rflrob on Hacker News · 2014-07
In 9th Grade Girls SolderingMedicine has many more barriers to entry: schooling, debt, etc. I'm a white high school dropout, but I got a developer position at age 27 after rushing through a CS degree later in live which took about ~3 years. I work 40 hours a week …
some-guy on Hacker News · 2016-02
In Why Tech Degrees Are Not Putting More Blacks and Hispanics into Tech Jobs
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