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Pittsburgh artist designed Google Doodle honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

TribLIVE’s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. 51 minutes ago Monday’s Google Doodle was designed to show the duality of history and current events, pointing out similarities and differences in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the one that’s taking place today. That’s according to the doodle’s creator. She is artist, Noa Denmon, 25, a Pittsburgh native who now lives in… Source link

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Google Doodle celebrates James Naismith inventing basketball in Springfield

You may recognize a product of Springfield, Massachusetts featured on Google’s homepage Friday. It’s called “basketball.” You may have heard of it. Friday’s Google Doodle is aimed at celebrating the life of Dr. James Naismith, who is best known for inventing the game of basketball in 1891 during his time at the YMCA International Training School, which is now Springfield College. The Google Doodle is a regular feature on the search engine’s homepage where the service’s logo is… Source link

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Google doodle celebrates female Turkish astrophysicist Dilhan Eryurt

It’s the 51st anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Google Doodle program is celebrating by commemorating the scientific legacy of Turkish astrophysicist Dilhan Eryurt. Eryurt lived from 1926 to 2012, studied in Turkey, and worked at, among other institutions, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and the University of California, according to a brief biography compiled by a group of astrophysicists. Eryurt’s research focused on stellar astrophysics, in particular of

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