How America’s First Female Codebreaker Outwitted Criminals, Spies, and History Countless women throughout history have been overshadowed by gender biases, their achievements attributed to men or overlooked entirely. Elizebeth Smith Friedman (1892-1980) is one such extraordinary figure whose groundbreaking work in cryptology remained hidden for decades. Born in Indiana, Illinois (USA), Friedman displayed an early […]
Mark Pollock is blind and paralysed and testing robotic legs as part of his mission to find a cure for paralysis. He is using his personal experience of a devastating spinal cord injury to spur change around the world. What is Mark’s story? At the age of 22 he became blind. Yet this did not deter him from competing in endurance […]
