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Katherine Johnson calculated the route to the moon
Katherine Johnson at NASA, in 1966
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
KATHERINE JOHNSON, the black mathematician who made the calculations that allowed men to walk on the moon, has died aged 101.
Hers was one of the finest mathematical minds in the US.
Using little more than a pencil, a slide rule and her truly brilliant mind she calculated the precise trajectories that let Apollo 11 land on the moon and return to earth in 1969.
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