Why Girls Rule

You have to checkout Super Awesome Silvia’s Mini Maker Show, she makes all sorts of cool stuff like model rockets, sidewalk chalk, Arduino electronics, LED toys, and much more.

Super Sylvia IS SUPER AWESOME!

Visit Super Awesome Silvia’s Channel on YouTube and check out the different episodes on the right side. She also has a page here , where there’s even more stuff.

Episode 1 – Drawdio
Episode 4 – Molding & Casting for Toy Duplication
Episode 7 – Build the MiniPOV

If you don’t know what a Maker is, visit Make Online and school thy self. If you dig it, you should subscribe to Make Magazine and start Making some stuff!

Kathleen Annie Pannonica de Koenigswarter was her full name, but Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey & Charlie Parker just called her ‘Nica’. She was the The Jazz Baroness, she supported jazz musicians when nobody else would. In fact Charlie Parker died in her mansion. Those jazz musicians are considered american legends now, and if they didn’t have Nica to help them, they might not have ever been so noticed.

NPR piece (6 min audio)
WNYC piece (25 min audio)
Thelonious Monk – Pannonica
Wikpedia

Emily Bear is a young pianist (born 2001), at 2 years old her grandmother (herself a concert pianist) recognized her talent and has been nurturing it.

She is also an award winning composer, with over 120 works to her credit. She has made multiple appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, played at the White House for President Bush, and played a complete Mozart concerto from memory with the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra.

News story
YouTube
Wikipedia

Margaret Dunning is 101 years old, and she still loves to drive her 1930 Packard roadster. Not only that, she changes the oil and spark plugs herself!

Oh, and she says that Henry Ford was a family friend who used to stop in and have dinner. Which is just kind of jaw-dropping.

NY Times (with video)
MSNBC