Anadiomene wydało po polsku książki Elaine Morgan:
"Pochodzenie kobiety" 2007
"Blizny po ewolucj
A tak do kompletu: czy wiecie, że Elaine Morgan jest autorką scenariusza do serialu BBC o swojej współjubilatce Marii?
(serial dostał nagrodę BAFTA)
Marie Curie (TV Mini Series 1977– ) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
I autobiografia:
Knock 'Em Cold, Kid. Knock 'em Cold, Kid is the autobiography of award-winning Welsh writer Elaine Morgan. Born in the Rhondda Valley in 1920, Elaine...
Druga (a raczej pierwsza) książka o Elaine:
https://www.amazon.com/Elaine-Morgan-Years-Towards-Origins-ebook/dp/B08MB9LMJ4
Druga (a raczej pierwsza) książka o Elaine:
This is my celebration of Elaine's very full and impressive life. It recounts the relatively modest origins of a Welsh heroine in the Rhondda Valley in South Wales. It’ll rejoice in how she won her place at Oxford University, knocking ‘em cold with her wit. Whilst pointing out that her degree wa...
Dziś 103. urodziny Elaine.
(a także urodziny Marii Curie, i rocznica Rewolucji)
Z tej okazji dwie książki o Elaine, Daryla Leeworthy i Algisa Kuliukasa.
Elaine Morgan (1920 - 2013) was a pioneer. As we celebrate her centenary in November 2020, Daryl Leeworthy, author of 'Elaine Morgan: A Life Behind the Scree...
jakby to powiedzieć..... kto by pomyślał? :D
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/17/europe/early-europeans-seaweed-dental-plaque-scn/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0XO7GGUAp7i_Eydx5pX95_o-6TCGj4XM8MI2KniPdIaDItrRhTVqvlDds
Virtually absent from most present-day Western diets, seaweed and aquatic plants were once a staple food for ancient Europeans, an analysis of molecules preserved in fossilized dental plaque has found.
Humans have crafted garments for more than 40,000 years—and ancient tools suggest that warmth wasn’t their only concern.
:)
https://www.facebook.com/scibabe/posts/898271085197139
In my dating life, I more than once found myself on a date with someone who I remember quite fondly as an impressive set of ge****ls with a superfluous man attached.
Which reminds me of this sea monster.
Today’s Moment of Science… The mating ritual of the anglerfish.
In the bathypelagic zone between 1,000m and 4,000m below sea level where no light penetrates, existence treads at a consistent, chilling 4-5 degrees Celsius. A few hundred million years of complex species evolving in this watery hell has gifted life with new and amazing glowy things in the name of survival. Give or take three out of every four critters in the pelagic zone, i.e. the open ocean above the sea floor, is bioluminescent.
In the case of this dreamy nightmare, only the female anglerfish will help you see the light. Hanging over their head is a built-in fishing pole, or illicium, with a lure full of glowing bacteria at the end. This serves a few purposes; it both draws in prey and helps signal to males “I’m sixty times your size and I still have room for you on the side of my abdomen… fellas.”
Depending on the species, females can grow up to about a meter long, while males only get up to a few centimeters. When a male stumbles across a female in this abyss typically by following his well developed sense of smell to her pheromones, he does the only thing he possibly can; hangs on for dear life. With his teeth.
When the male bites, an enzyme is released that dissolves their skin, allowing them to fuse. Their circulatory systems merge, with the female’s diet now providing fuel for her lover/parasite. In some species, the female can support up to eight bo**ie calls at a time, continually supporting them to be ready whenever she’s in the mood to fertilize some deeply upsetting caviar. My band name.
“But Ms. Auntie SciBabe,” I hear you wonder into the deep blue ocean, “how do two critters merge outside of a Cronenberg movie without some organ rejection shenanigans?”
Right you are to ask, but bet there’s shenanigans. Most species have immune systems that create T-cells, specially designed to recognize the difference between ‘you’ and ‘non-you’ cells. The genes responsible for making T-cells and functional antibodies are no longer active in the more, uh, slutty anglerfish species. Species that just attach to one mate had some of these genetic changes, and those that attach reversibly can still mount an antibody response.
Given that almost all vertebrates have this type of adaptive immunity, this is still a bit of a head scratcher. How is it surviving without being able to make T-cells? Apparently just fine, so what the f**k do we know?
Though no organs are rejected, not everything makes the cut. Males lose quite a bit of themselves in this most delicate of reproductive tradeoffs. The price for parasitism can mean being reduced to their most necessary bits, becoming little more than gills and testicles.
When contacted for comment, the male anglerfish said “don’t care, had s*x.”
This has been your Moment of Science, suggesting that the next parody of Jordan Peterson utilizes the anglerfish in place of the lobster.
https://www.facebook.com/amightygirl/posts/725886362902372
Just in time for Halloween, it's Zombie Marie Curie! A fun and thoughtful look at women and science from cartoonist Randall Munroe of xkcd.
Polish physicist and chemist Marie Skłodowska-Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and remains the only person to have won Nobel Prizes in multiple sciences (chemistry and physics). Her daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, also went on to later win a Nobel Prize in chemistry, making the Curies the family with the most Nobel laureates to date.
To introduce young children to the extraordinary Marie Curie, we highly recommend the board book "Marie: My First Marie Curie" for ages 1 to 3 (https://www.amightygirl.com/my-first-marie-curie) and the picture book "I Am Marie Curie" for ages 4 to 8 (https://www.amightygirl.com/i-am-marie-curie)
For older kids, we recommend "Who Was Marie Curie" for ages 8 to 12 (https://www.amightygirl.com/who-was-marie-curie) and the activity-packed "The Science and Technology of Marie Curie" for ages 9 to 12 (https://www.amightygirl.com/science-technology-marie-curie)
For a stunning visual biography for adult readers, check out "Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout" at https://www.amightygirl.com/radioactive-love-and-fallout
To inspire children and teens with stories of more trailblazing women of science who have made important discoveries, visit our blog post, "Ignite Her Curiosity: Children's Books to Inspire Science-Loving Mighty Girls," at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=13914
To see more from xkcd , the popular webcomic of "romance, sarcasm, math, and language," visit http://xkcd.com
Nie byłoby dobrze...
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-million-years-elephant-evolution-humans.html?fbclid=IwAR24HtlGIV20sjCXtyTFFPHEk4YKzIKIGJq5h7LEMHF1CIVZe5pE5-vNC50
In 2013, University of Michigan researcher Bill Sanders was invited to the Arabian Peninsula by an international team studying fossils and fossil sites in Abu Dhabi.
Virtually absent from most present-day Western diets, seaweed and aquatic plants were once a staple food for ancient Europeans, an analysis of molecules preserved in fossilized dental plaque has found.
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Assyrian Wall Relief Panel; shows a soldier diving using an inflatable bag made of goat skin. It is oldest record of a diver. It is about 3000 years old.
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My “everything in Australia can end your life” schtick might be getting tiring. But an Australian-grade evolutionary arms race to survive has created an animal kingdom so beyond belief that when people first saw this creature, they thought it the work of a taxidermist who was spitting in God’s face.
Today’s Moment of Science… The Custard Maker.
The first time a European saw a preserved platypus around the turn of the nineteenth century, they basically looked at it and said “f**k you, no.” It looked like someone played a practical joke on you with a duck bill attached to the face of whatever in God’s name this was. I’ve seen it referred to as a ‘duck-beaver hybrid,’ which is visually accurate but evolutionarily not. To figure out what the platypus is, you’ve gotta go back several branches on the evolutionary tree, well over a hundred million years.
In the mammal family, there are three orders: placentals, marsupials, and monotremes. The vast majority of mammals are placentals, a distinction being that the placental fetus develops in the uterus. Most marsupials- but not all- have pouches for their young to develop in. Then there’s this as***le, the monotreme.
Monotremes are the only order of mammals that lay eggs, and the term is derived from Greek meaning ‘one hole.’ This refers to the hole the platypus uses to s**t, p**s, and f**k. Efficient buggers. They nurse their young, but the milk delivery system is unique. Instead of a centralized area on the chest for milk to flow through- a ni**le, if you will- the mammary glands just kinda secrete milk through the pores across the monotreme chest.
You may have heard of its spiny cousin with a four-headed p***s and an anteater’s nose, the echidna, but probably not. The echidna deserves a bit more respect and at least four dick jokes.
The male platypus has venomous spurs on their hind legs that’s strong enough to kill a small animal. If you one day make the ill-fated decision to try picking up one of these five pound rascals in the wild? It won’t kill you, but the pain’s been described as “excruciating.” Play Australia games, win Australia prizes.
So how can we have so much variation amongst mammals? Time. This little guy is older than some dinosaurs. It’s hard to pinpoint the number of millions of years we’re working with here, but an estimate on when monotremes split from other mammals is typically set at 160 million years ago, with animals we might recognize to be the platypus appearing about 110 million years old. The echidnas branched off from the platypus somewhere between 50 and 20 million years ago, going from a semi-aquatic species to a land animal that’s a decent swimmer.
Just in case they weren’t weird enough, they glow under UV light, and we don’t have a f**king clue why.
This has been your Moment of Science, worried and titillated about the next thing I'll learn about Australia.
To już dziś :)
Drugie wydanie, tym razem Wydawnictwo Literackie, w serii rekomendowanej przez Olgę Tokarczuk.
Tłumaczka jest zachwycona :)
Wywrotowa i niepokorna hipoteza wodnej małpy w mistrzowskiej książce Elaine MorganEkscentryczne i feministyczne wyzwanie rzucone męskiej opowieści o ewolucji
Mighty Girl pisze:
Jeanne Villepreux-Power went from being the dressmaker for a princess to inventing the world's first aquarium and becoming one of the most groundbreaking marine biologists of her day -- yet few people know her name today. To read the inspiring story of this "Hidden Figure" of science -- who was born on this day in 1794 -- visit https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=26020
Her inspiring story has been told in the excellent picture books "The Girl Who Built an Ocean" (https://www.amightygirl.com/girl-who-built-an-ocean) and "Secrets of the Sea: The Story of Jeanne Power, Revolutionary Marine Scientist" (https://www.amightygirl.com/secrets-of-the-sea), both for ages 5 to 9
For older kids, we recommend "The Lady and the Octopus: How Jeanne Villepreux-Power Invented Aquariums and Revolutionized Marine Biology" for tweens and teens, ages 10 and up, at https://www.amightygirl.com/lady-and-octopus
For more books about trailblazing female scientists to inspire children of all ages, check out our blog post, "60 Books to Inspire Science-Loving Mighty Girls," at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=13914
And if you'd like to encourage your own budding scientist, check out our top picks of science toys and kits in our blog post, “Top 60 Science Toys for Mighty Girls" at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=10528
Jeanne Villepreux-Power began her adult life as a dressmaker, but rose to become one of the preeminent marine biologists of her day.
No dobrze, wygląda na to, że pora się pochwalić:
Wydawnictwo Literackie przygotowało nowe wydanie "Pochodzenia kobiety" (w moim przekładzie)
https://www.wydawnictwoliterackie.pl/produkt/5181/pochodzenie-kobiety?fbclid=IwAR1vzAdoEINvK_vDneUpFh8ZjjAM-_GIc-9LbS9hOC3HKsbM0IXI4ULNA7I
Wywrotowa i niepokorna hipoteza wodnej małpy w mistrzowskiej książce Elaine MorganEkscentryczne i feministyczne wyzwanie rzucone męskiej opowieści o ewolucji
o dżumie
A także o tym, że Marija Gimbutas miała rację przynajmniej częściowo.
Towards a New European prehistory: genes, archaeology and language. The L'Orange lecture 2019.Speaker: Professor Kristian Kristiansen (University of Gothenbu...
o chromosomach
https://johnhawks.net/weblog/when-did-human-chromosome-2-fuse/?fbclid=IwAR2CimL-IXCJeIOkhHb3x9nLdI1Rj9yL8czLcYoiBelwgFb0v0aVftEPUsQ
More and more, it looks like this event happened shortly before a million years ago, in the common ancestors of Neandertal, Denisovan, and African ancestral humans.
Natural selection changed just 13 genes to separate your Felix and Fluffy from their African wildcat ancestor.
The rotating shoulders and extending elbows that allow humans to reach for a high shelf or toss a ball with friends may have first evolved as a natural braking system for our primate ancestors who simply needed to get out of trees without dying.
A w tę niedzielę na WHAT Talks RICHARD WRANGHAM
Much like Williams et al. (2023: African apes and the evolutionary history of orthogrady and bipedalism, Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 181: 58-80), I infer that the LCA of australopiths and African apes was a form of African ape that was so similar to chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas that it ha...
Ancient protein sequences identify the s*x of Paranthropus robustus fossils and hint at evolutionary relationships.
A to książka dla dzieci Judy Kaul
https://www.amazon.fr/Were-First-People-Swimmers-Introduction/dp/1492850195/ref=sr_1_30?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=2LM9WS1ZOXK94&keywords=Elaine%20Morgan&qid=1689172926&sprefix=elaine%20morgan%2Caps%2C84&sr=8-30&fbclid=IwAR3WrV_CqZClBwQHvrf4QutlcG73hVwSeieIeCWhk6O9uHHoF9CEBHQB6v8
Your child asks, “Where did we come from?” and you wish you had a scientific explanation of human evolution to answer the question. Or you’re grown up and you’re still curious. How did our species become so different from the other great apes, or for that matter, from other mammals? More tha...
50 osób walijskich
They are the men and women whose achievements have shaped history and whose names will resonate for centuries to come, not just in Wales but around the world
Feminist, screenwriter and propounder of the aquatic ape theory of human evolution
https://www.facebook.com/amightygirl/posts/659419469549062
Known as the "Australian Mermaid," swimmer Annette Kellerman took the world by storm at the turn of the twentieth century, not just as a skilled long-distance swimmer, but also a daring stunts woman, vaudeville performer, silent movie star, and swimsuit innovator who was once arrested for "indecency" due to her one-piece suit!
Originally a therapy for legs weakened by rickets as a child, swimming became a passion for Kellerman -- but often with a dramatic twist. Dressed as a mermaid, she earned money as a teen by diving into a glass tank of underwater creatures. As a young woman, she swam 26 miles (42 km) of the Thames River – making her the first woman to do so; repeatedly attempted the cross the English Channel (without success, but with no shortage of gumption), and was arrested for indecency in 1907 for wearing a fitted, one-piece bathing suit on Revere Beach near Boston, Massachusetts (in place of the contemporary costume with pantaloons that she considered far too impractical).
In later years, she incorporated theatrics and risky dives into performances throughout the US, including on Hollywood's screens. Always a revolutionary, synchronized swimming is considered the brainchild of the talented Ms. Kellerman, as is the one-piece swimsuit. Her one-piece suit became so popular that it was known as the “Annette Kellerman” and was the first step toward the invention of modern swimwear.
Annette Kellerman's story is also told in the new picture book "Annette Feels Free: The True Story of Annette Kellerman" for ages 4 to 8 at https://www.amightygirl.com/annette-feels-free
She's also featured in the inspiring picture book "Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World" for ages 5 to 9 at https://www.amightygirl.com/shaking-things-up
For an excellent picture book about girls and women who refused to take no for an answer and broke barriers in sports of all kinds, we highly recommend "Girls With Guts!" for ages 6 to 9 at https://www.amightygirl.com/girls-with-guts
For a fantastic introduction to 50 pioneering female athletes, we also recommend the illustrated biography "Women in Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win" for ages 9 and up at https://www.amightygirl.com/women-in-sports
For girl-empowering books celebrate the joys and growth that comes with summer, visit our blog post "50 Mighty Girl Books About Summertime Adventure, Growth, & Discovery" at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=19393
Proszę bardzo, oto na gwiazdkę Tom Brenna:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr6LcnG03UY
Professor Tom Brenna tells the story of the peculiar cheesy wax, called vernix caseosa, which is often found covering newborn human babies but very few other...
The Gendered Ape, Essay #4
IS R**E IN OUR GENES?
The violence of men against women is one of the most blatant and dangerous aspects of gender inequality, an issue often ignored by men but of obvious concern to women.
Photograph: Sexual dimorphism is the difference in size and appearance between the s*xes. An adult male chimpanzee (left) next to an adult female. Whereas males are hairier and heavier than females, the average size dimorphism in chimpanzees and bonobos is only slightly larger than in our species. Photograph by Frans de Waal.
In many primates, males are bigger and stronger than females. The same applies to humans, in which the two genders show little overlap in upper body strength. In one German study, highly trained women athletes reached only the average physical strength of untrained men.
The evolution of s*xual dimorphism in size and strength is thought to be driven mostly by male-male competition. The main purpose of greater male size is not dominance over females, but competition with rivals. In humans, this competition is reflected in the homicide statistics of most countries, including the US, in which male-on-male murders prevail.
Nevertheless, male violence against females is common. In our societies, spousal abuse, r**e, and femicide are either on the rise or more frequently reported. It is a domain in which the human species stands out by its exceptionally high incidence. Since it often occurs between individuals who are close, one contributing factor is the habit of human families living in relative isolation in huts and houses. These arrangements, which are unique among primates, facilitate male control. During the Covid crisis and its lock-down policies, domestic abuse increased worldwide.
We don’t use the term “r**e” in relation to other animals, and instead speak of “forced copulation.” This behavior is wholly absent in bonobos for the simple reason that the females collectively dominate the males. But also in chimpanzees, which are male-dominated, it is exceedingly rare. Even though I must have witnessed at least one thousand chimpanzee copulations, I have never seen this behavior.
Male chimpanzees do intimidate fertile females, sometimes quite violently. This is more common in East African chimpanzees, which are the ones we hear most about, while rare or absent in West Africa. As documented by Swiss primatologist Christophe Boesch, Western chimpanzee communities are more cohesive. Since they spend more time together, the gender power balance has shifted towards the females. When females travel and groom together, rather than being spread out over the forest, they form a block of shared interests. They call on each other for help. This puts a halt to brutal male tactics. According to Boesch, violent s*xual harassment and coerced matings are absent in Taï Forest in Ivory Coast.
In sum, forced copulation is highly exceptional in our closest ape relatives whereas s*xual violence does occur but is subject to species and cultural differences. If females are around to support each other, they develop a movement like the bonobos. Bonobos have effectively curbed male s*xual violence. But also in chimpanzees, we can recognize this potential for female solidarity.
In captive chimpanzee colonies, for example, where females are together all the time, social life is tightly regulated, and males can’t get away with obnoxious behavior. I have seen males bluff with all hair on end at females who are reluctant to mate, but there always comes a point when other females jump in to save the screaming victim. They go after the unrelenting male and teach him to behave.
In contrast, in a primate without any social networking, such as the largely solitary orang-outan, females are on their own. Orang-outans are exceptional in that forced copulation by adolescent and young adult males is not uncommon. The females prefer s*x with fully grown males.
So, if you ask me if our ancestors were rapists, I’d say that chances are low given the behavior of our two closest ape relatives, and given that our forebears likely lived in tight-knit communities marked by female networking.
We don’t know this for sure, though, and alternative views do exist, most prominently the one of Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer in their 2000 book “A Natural History of R**e,” which proposed r**e as an evolved adaptive strategy, also in humans. They see r**e as a fertilization strategy for certain males, who spread their genes this way.
Their argument relies on the rather small number of species marked by forced copulation (e.g. ducks, scorpion flies, orang-outans, humans), whereas if r**e really were such a great strategy, it should be widespread in the animal kingdom. It isn’t. I criticized their book in The New York Times (see below), and some anthropologists have moreover noted that men who r**e in small-scale human societies risk being expelled or killed by the woman’s relatives. R**e may have been a rather maladaptive strategy in ancestral communities.
Apart from focusing on how to protect women against male violence (such as through sisterly networking), society has the task to educate boys in a way that discourages such behavior. Call me old-fashioned, but I am no big believer in gender-neutral upbringing: sons are no daughters, and vice versa. Boys need an education that recognizes future gender differences in physique. Respect for women ought to be drilled into them.
Quoting from my book: “If descriptions of primate and human behavior teach us anything, it’s that sons will grow up to be more prone to violence. They will also acquire considerably greater body strength than daughters. Every society needs to come to grips with this dual potential for trouble and find ways to civilize its young men and steer their aggressive drive into a constructive direction. To make sure they become sources of strength rather than abuse, boys need to acquire emotional skills and attitudes geared specifically to their gender. They need to learn that strength comes with responsibility.”
FURTHER
My NYT review of “A Natural History of R**e,” archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/02/reviews/000402.002waalt.html
Anthropologist/primatologist Barbara Smuts has written interesting reviews on the issue of inters*xual violence: Smuts, B. B. (1992). Male aggression against women: An evolutionary perspective. Human Nature 3: 1-44.
For further details and references to the literature, read “Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist” (Norton, 2022). A video about the book can be seen here: https://fb.watch/ffbauZBzNb/
O stygofaunie
In an increasingly thirsty world, scientists warn of the risk of losing the strange creatures that live in groundwater.
Jeśli tego jeszcze nie udostępniałam, to niesłusznie:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC18762/
Long postmenopausal lifespans distinguish humans from all other primates. This pattern may have evolved with mother–child food sharing, a practice that allowed aging females to enhance their daughters’ fertility, thereby increasing selection ...
"Forget ‘man the hunter’, it’s hardworking grandmothers, babysitting apes, children with more than one daddy, who are the new Darwinian heroes. "
https://libcom.org/article/gender-egalitarianism-made-us-human-response-david-graeber-david-wengrows-how-change-course?fbclid=IwAR2WMDGa4XyCsKr4Orzc5ndnilbTJvHa13XLxu9XUCQBXlYNNHqEMoUg3lo
In an ambitious recent article in Eurozine David Graeber and David Wengrow try to rewrite the narrative of human history. They attack the ‘myth’ that humans had once enjoyed equality and freedom in hunter-gatherer bands, until the invention of farming sent us down the road to social inequality.
This trailblazing mathematician built the geodetic model of the Earth that became the foundation for GPS.
Irena Sendler led a secret operation to successfully smuggle Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto, saving them from almost certain death
To dziś, zaraz, Tom Brenna
https://whattalks.com/home
These are also ideas worth spreading, but only about human evolution and specifically ideas about waterside hypotheses of human evolution.
Pisałam o niej nie raz i nie dwa, ale o Adzie nigdy dość ♥️
10 grudnia 1815 roku urodziła się pierwsza programistka albo przynajmniej osoba za nią uważana. Bo nie wiadomo na pewno, czy to ona była autorką pierwszego algorytmu programistycznego, czy pierwszego spisanego algorytmu programistycznego. Niektórzy historycy twierdzą też, że nie ona sama ten algorytm stworzyła, tylko po prostu go spisała, a jego autorem był w rzeczywistości twórca maszyny liczącej, na potrzeby której ten algorytm powstał - Charles Babbage. Ale od początku.
Ada była córką znanego poety, lorda George'a Byrona. Jego małżeństwo z matką dziewczynki, Annabellą Milbanke, trwało krótko, jednak nawet po rozstaniu oboje byli zgodni co do tego, że małą trzeba trzymać z dala od poezji. Dlatego Annabella, która sama fascynowała się matematyką, od małego wysyłała córkę na zajęcia z rachunków. Jej nauczycielką była m.in. znana wówczas matematyczka Mary Somerville. Trochę wbrew planom matki, nastoletnia Ada pisała wiersze (a jednak!), flirtowała i imprezowała na potęgę. Dzięki temu zresztą poznała Babbage'a, który na przyjęciu w swoim domu pokazał pierwszą wersję swojej maszyny liczącej. Zafascynowana nią panna Milbanke zaprzyjaźniła się z matematykiem i przyglądała się postępom w jego pracach nad maszyną, a gdy wyszła za mąż za barona Williama Lovelace'a, oboje wspierali Babbage'a finansowo.
Mąż wspierał też naukowe pasje Ady. Ona sama, po urodzeniu trójki dzieci, chciała bardziej zaangażować się w projekt swojego przyjaciela. Babbage powierzył jej tłumaczenie wykładu poświęconego jego maszynie, który w oryginalne był wygłoszony po francusku. Ada dokonała przekładu i uzupełniła go o własne notatki poświęcone sposobowi działania maszyny. To był właśnie pierwszy spisany algorytm.
Autorstwo Ady potwierdza odnaleziona korespondencja pomiędzy nią a Babbage'm. Lovelace nie chciała robić szumu wokół tego osiągnięcia. Nigdy np. nie wygłosiła wykładu na ten temat, choć Babbage ją do tego namawiał. Ada mogła uważać, że arystokratce nie wypada zajmować się takimi rzeczami i nie chciała być bohaterką skandalu.
Zmarła w wieku zaledwie 36 lat, prawdopodobnie na raka szyjki macicy. Na jej cześć język programowania stworzony w latach siedemdziesiątych w USA do celów wojskowych nazwano ADA. Także jedna z bohaterek popularnego cyklu książek dla dzieci "The Questioneers" Andrei Beaty, dziewczynka, która w przyszłości chce zostać naukowczynią, nazywa się Ada Maria (to po Skłodowskiej-Curie) Twist (po polsku książka ukazała się jako "Ada Bambini, naukowczyni" i polecam ją z całego serca, mój syn zna ją na pamięć)
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