Wednesday 7 June 2023

Dutchman's Puzzle

 

When Judith Love Cohen was in school, she showed an affinity for math and science. Her high school guidance counselor advised her to go to a nice finishing school, but she continued studying math in college – while dancing with the New York Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company. At 21, Judith moved to California to work as a junior engineer with North American Aviation. She took night classes to complete a master's degree at USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Later, she worked for NASA. Judith was there August 28, 1969, when she went into labor. She left for the hospital with a computer printout of the problem she was trouble-shooting – the key to the Abort-Guidance System which would enable the Apollo 13 crew to return safely the following April. Later, Judith called her boss to say she’d sorted the problem, and had given birth to a baby boy. Judith named the baby Thomas Jacob, but you know him as Jack Black.

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