{"id":3791,"date":"2017-01-04T05:18:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T10:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/?p=3791"},"modified":"2017-01-04T05:27:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T10:27:13","slug":"kaku-on-hidden-figures-stem-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/kaku-on-hidden-figures-stem-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"KAKU ON HIDDEN FIGURES STEM STARS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2016\/12\/saluting-a-new-guard-of-stem-stars-part-4\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-article-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/kaku-vanity-fair-stem.jpg\" alt=\"Click to Open Article\" title=\"Click to Open Article\" width=\"450\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full noborder\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/tag\/vanity-fair\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/vanity-fair-logo-250.png\" alt=\"Click to Show Only Vanity Fair\" title=\"Click to Show Only Vanity Fair\" width=\"250\" height=\"54\" valign=\"bottom\" class=\"alignleft size-full noborder\" \/><\/a>&quot;<strong>Hidden Figures<\/strong>&quot; is a powerful new feature film that reveals the untold true story of three women of African-American descent who contributed greatly to the <strong>USA<\/strong>&#8216;s victory in the space race during the mid-20th century as so-called &quot;human computers&quot; for <strong>NASA<\/strong>. The movie, in theaters January 6th, inspired <strong>IBM<\/strong> and <strong>Vanity Fair Studios<\/strong> to join forces in saluting the new guard of stars in the fields of <strong>Science<\/strong>, <strong>Technology<\/strong>, <strong>Engineering<\/strong>, and <strong>Mathematics<\/strong> (collectively known as <strong>STEM<\/strong>). As a world renowned popularizer of science and advocate for talent and resources to support and advance STEM fields, <a href=\"http:\/\/mkaku.org\"><strong>Dr. Michio Kaku<\/strong><\/a>, was invited to expand on the subject, to put a spotlight on today&#8217;s STEM stars, and, as with the film, to inspire future generations to take up STEM studies and contribute to the advancement of humankind. <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2016\/12\/saluting-a-new-guard-of-stem-stars-part-4\"><strong>READ NOW!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Hidden Figures&quot; is a powerful new feature film that reveals the untold true story of three women of African-American descent who contributed greatly to the USA&#8216;s victory in the space race during the mid-20th century as so-called &quot;human computers&quot; for NASA. The movie, in theaters January 6th, inspired IBM and Vanity Fair Studios to join [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[180,58,1],"tags":[371,565,163,561,563,464,389,560,370,92,162,562,535,536,559,564],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3791"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3810,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions\/3810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}