40. Judith Love Cohen — a.ka. Jack Black’s Mom

Judith Love Cohen

Judith Love Cohen

If you type “Judith Love Cohen” into your search bar, the headlines about her can be summed up in three words, “Jack Black’s mom.” But did you know she was also a prolific author, an aerospace engineer who helped the Apollo 13 mission, and, for a time, a professional ballerina in New York City? Join us for our latest mini episode, inspired by a meme that sent us down a rabbit hole of amazingness.

Discussed in this episode: 

Judith Love Cohen

Snopes.com

Jack Black

Corps de Ballet for the New York Metropolitan Opera

Hubble Space Telescope

Apollo 13

Society of Women Engineers

Engineer of California magazine

You Can Be a Woman Engineer by Judith Love Cohen

The “Green” series

Edith Lewis

Willa Cather

The Only Wonderful Things by Dr. Melissa Homestead

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