#Marie Tharp

[oliviawhen]

Super honored to have worked on this interactive visual novel Doodle celebrating geographer and cartographer Marie Tharp!! She has an incredible story. This project was also done entirely in watercolor! It also as voice over by three contemporary female scientists working in geology and Earth science!  [Check it out here.] Many many thanks to Alyssa Winans who painted the majority of the interactive scenes, that inherently needed lots of iteration. Also Anthony Irwin who did the UX/UI, and many things that were not UX/UI. ALSO our engineers Gemma and Jonathan who put Everything together, and even managed to teach us how to do some basic eng things so we could have more control. It has been one of my favorite things I’ve worked on!

[apotatomashedbybts]

‪Celebrating Marie Tharp #GoogleDoodle‬ https://g.co/doodle/fyka8ta

[aquamarine-dream-queen]

Congratulations to Marie Tharp for publishing the first complete world map of the ocean floors!

[dieguin-san-theartist2009]

"Happy Marie Tharp Day" / Feliz Día De Marie Tharp :D

[googledesign]

[francisofgotham1]

It was actually both of them.

Alfred Wagner (born 1880) - the man seen as the originator of the continental drift - first suggested the idea in 1912 during a lecture in Frankfurt, Germany. Later that same year, he made a long article arguing his theory. He faced some resistance, but many in Europe were already in favor of it in the late 1920s. In the US, though, it took much longer to catch on.

Marie Tharp (born 1920) made groundbreaking work on mapping the Atlantic Ocean Floor between 1946 and 1952, which eventually led to the overall acceptance of Wagner's theories across the globe. In fact, the whole reason why her findings were rejected (apart for sexism) was because it was support continental drift.

So, while Tharp's work definitely led to solidifying the theory as correct, it was Wagner that created and founded the theory to begin with.

God could you imagine how mad geologists must have been to slowly watch the "hey all the continents kinda fit like puzzle pieces :)" guy get proven right

[victoriaassanelli]

Grasping Mysteries: Girls Who Loved Math, by Jeannine Atkins

Simon & Schuster - 2020

[joe-england]

Let's talk about the Navy renaming ships....

Damn.  Robert Smalls kicked all kinds of ass!

[weekendviking]

Marie Tharp for the Win.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Tharp

Her stunning oceanography work with Bruce Heezen gave us all these stunning maps, and combined with and building on the work of excellent maniacs like Harry Hess just before and during the war (he entered the US navy to do his doctorate on gravity anomaly study over deep ocean trenches (which we now know are the subduction zones), but could only do it from a submarine and they wouldn't let him borrow one without enlisting, then the war happened so he was stuck driving submarines and later troop ships, and re-purposed his anti submarine sonar for ocean bottom mapping...) really nailed home the mechanism for continental drift that had been growing in support but needing hard oceanographic proof since the '30s

girls don’t want a man girls want a detailed map of the indian ocean floor from the october 1967 national geographic that they can put on the bottom of the bunk above them and look at to go to sleep

[oliviawhen]

A quick timelapse video for the opening scene in the Marie Tharp doodle! The editing and anim is all in PS, then transferred to Animate where it can be made into an interactive. It’s a lot faster for me to just paint without worrying about if it’s perfect, and then clean up later.

[thehorrorkid17]

An appreciation moodboard for sister Rosetta tharpe.

[callmeanxietygirl]

#UnDíaComoHoy pero de 1920 nació Mary Tharp, la geóloga que dio luz y color al fondo oceánico.

#MásCiencia #MujeresEnLaCiencia

[nonesuchrecords]

Rhiannon Giddens is a host of the new PBS conversation series Arts Talk, which premieres today, with all episodes available to stream now on PBS.org and the PBS app. Giddens welcomes singer, songwriter, and producer Elvis Costello and actor and singer Brian Stokes Mitchell as her guests on the show to discuss their careers and share personal memories. You can watch them here. Guests on other episodes are Seal, Min Jin Lee, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Jimmy Kimmel, and Twyla Tharp in interviews led by Misty Copeland, Henry Winkler, and Ann Curry. Giddens new album, You're the One, is due August 18.

[matildazq]

Review: Marie and Rosetta, Northlight Theatre, Skokie, IL

[queerasfact]

Black History Month: Rosetta Tharpe

“All this new stuff they call rock ‘n’ roll, why, I’ve been playing that for years now.”

—Rosetta Tharpe, London Daily Mirror, 1957, quoted in Gayle Wald’s Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Known as the godmother of rock and roll, Rosetta Tharpe had her first hit song in 1938 and continued to perform almost up until her death in 1973.

As the first gospel musician signed to Decca records, Rosetta brought the music of her Black, working-class gospel church to the world. Her sound - especially her distinctive guitar-playing - was a pioneering influence on rock and roll, with Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, and Chuck Berry all citing her as an inspiration.

Rosetta never spoke publicly about her sexuality, but friends remember that she was attracted to women and men, and that she and her musical partner Marie Knight were lovers.

Learn more

Image: Black-and-white photo of Rosetta, a young, smiling Black woman in a long dress, holding a guitar