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women-in-stem

4 notes carry this tag — 3 claims, 1 capture. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• The first commercial sports bra (1977) was prototyped by sewing two men's jockstraps together
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · invention-history, sports-science, wearables, apparel, women-in-stem
• Pauline Beery Mack retired from a chemistry deanship at 70 to become NASA's ground-based bone-density research director
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · space-medicine, history-of-science, women-in-stem, bone-density, aerospace-physiology
• Polly Smith, a co-inventor of the sports bra, spent a decades-long parallel career as a Jim Henson Company costume designer
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · invention-history, biography, cross-domain-bridge, apparel, puppetry
• Pauline Beery Mack: a 70-year-old chemistry dean reinvented herself as NASA's bone-density researcher, and her 'bed rest' analog now bridges spaceflight and geriatric medicine
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-09 · space-medicine, history-of-science, women-in-stem, bone-density, aerospace-physiology