Amy Shira Teitel

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Amy Shira Teitel (born March 7, 1986 in Toronto , Ontario , Canada) is a Canadian-American popular science writer and journalist.

Life

Amy Shira Teitel was born in Toronto, but has lived in California for several years. She completed a BA in the History of Science and Technology from the University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia . Amy Shira Teitel is a writer and space historian. Under the channel name "Vintage Space" she deals with the history of space travel on YouTube and in podcasts . She has also written and commented on articles for The Daily Beast , National Geographic , Discovery News, Scientific American, Ars Technica , Al Jazeera English, and Popular Science . She co-hosts the Discovery Channel's online DNews . Amy Shira Teitel describes herself as a "professional space nerd, " and according to The Sydney Morning Herald, the popularity of her YouTube channel has also led her to become something of a "science show girl on mainstream television".

Career

writer

Her first book, based on her research for her master's thesis "Breaking the Chains of Gravity" (Bloomsbury 2015), tells the story of the emerging space program in the USA. It was her debut book, and Kirkus Reviews called it a "must see" for anyone interested in the early history of space exploration. “ Booklist called it a“ good debut author. ”The book describes the early rocket pioneers in the late 1920s up to the founding of NASA. As a Jewish writer, she got into a difficult situation when she heard about her childhood hero Wernher von Braun , the was a Nazi and was a member of the SS , wrote: "It was about getting the story right. I am very passionate, but I also had to be careful not to arouse the wrath of my family. "There have been allegations that some of her earlier writings contained plagiarism.

Video and other media

She has written for The Daily Beast , National Geographic , Discovery News, Scientific American , Ars Technica . and Al Jazeera English. She is a co-host for the Discovery Channel's online DNews channel . According to The Sydney Morning Herald , the popularity of her YouTube channel "[...] made her sort of a girl for science shows on mainstream television." She also hosts a weekly show on her own YouTube channel, "Vintage Space." "; it also hosts a weekly podcast under the same name, both of which cover the history of space travel around the world.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Introduction: Amy Shira Teitel By Bora Zivkovic on June 4, 2012, Scientific American
  2. ↑ -of-science / wp / 2016/07/15 / the first woman-Space-Shuttle-Commander-Will-Sprechen-am-GOP-Convention-huh. The first female space shuttle commander will speak at the GOP convention. Huh? By Sarah Scoles, July 15, 2016, The Washington Post
  3. ↑ Why this Canadian space blogger wrote a book about the origins of NASA with Amy Shira Teitel on "Breaking the Chains of Gravity" By Matt Giles, Jan 13, 2016, Popular Science
  4. ↑ a b Amy Shira Teitel
  5. ↑ Bacon is really out of this world. In: Winnipeg Free Press. April 14, 2014, archived from the original on January 28, 2018 ; Retrieved December 19, 2016 .
  6. ↑ a b AMY SHIRA TITLE Popular Science , Author Biography
  7. ↑ 'Science Presents DNews' Welcomes President (and Science Enthusiast) President Obama
  8. ↑ a b c -mit-rocket-science-Nazi-history-20160707-gq0xus.html As a Jewish space historian and YouTube star battling the Nazi history of rocket technology by Andrew Masterson, The Sydney Morning Herald , July 9, 2016
  9. ↑ The True Story of How the Nazis Invented the Space Program Ezra Glinter, Jan 25, 2016, Forward
  10. ↑ The chains of gravity break Bloomsbury
  11. ↑ Break the chains of gravity
  12. ↑ direct = true & db = lfh & AN = 111787305 & site = ehost-live good author debut
  13. ↑ Robert A. Lee: Book Review: Breaking the Chains of Gravity . Archived from the original on June 2, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 19, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nss.org
  14. ↑ Plagiarism in several articles on space history
  • Breaking the Chains of Gravity The Story of Spaceflight before NASA. By: Amy Shira Teitel. Published: 30-11-2017 ISBN 978-1-4729-1124-7 Publisher: Bloomsbury Sigma

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personal data
SURNAME Teitel, Amy Shira
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-American popular science writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario, Canada