Makers

3 weeks ago | makers.com | Peter Valdes-Dapena

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links."Women account for just 4% of drivers in the top professional categories of racing today. Even that represents real progress from just 1.5% a few years ago. Some of women’s success as drivers has to do with simple economics, says Aurora Straus, one of the drivers who helped start the DART Car racing team. My mother was a doctor, just like my father.

1 month ago | makers.com | Dylan Stableford

Blue Origin completed its latest spaceflight Monday with a historic all-female crew. The mission, NS-31, was the 11th human flight for Jeff Bezos’s space tourism company and 31st overall. It included six women: aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe; activist Amanda Nguyen; CBS Mornings host Gayle King; pop singer Katy Perry; film producer Kerianne Flynn; and Lauren Sánchez, an author, TV host turned philanthropist and Bezos’s fiancée. ✨ Weightless and limitless.

1 month ago | makers.com | Danielle Pergament

I’m interviewing Olivia Munn tomorrow. I texted a friend. Don’t you know her? He texted back in seconds: We aren’t in touch now but worked/socialized back in the day. I genuinely liked her. She was smart, nice, didn’t take herself too seriously. We’d run into each other at big parties and take a breather and make fun of this person or that. Three grey dots.

2 months ago | makers.com | Tim Hines

If I could say what my North Star is, what my purpose is, it is to utilize pop culture and high quality art to elevate disability narratives or really the story of different, to mainstream discussion. I was born legally blind. I had much better sight when I was younger than I do now, but I do remember when I was about 6 or 7, a social worker came to my parents and said, you know, your daughter is going to need to start using a cane.

2 months ago | makers.com | Jake Kring-Schreifels

In the spring of 2022, Lakers president and controlling owner Jeanie Buss turned on HBO’s Winning Time and was transported back to the start of her career. The well-received but short-lived series, based on Jeff Pearlman’s book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s, traced how her father, Dr. Jerry Buss, bought a floundering NBA franchise and quickly turned it into a world-class operation.