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The Concerns Of The Earth, And Above: Mae Jemison’s Life In Medicine And Space Travel

Dale DeBakcsyApril 6, 2022

Spectral Lines From A Dying Nation: The Molecular Spectrometry Of Hertha Sponer

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 2, 2021

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A Doctor At Sky’s Edge: Susan Anderson And The Practice Of Medicine On America’s Last Frontier

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 17, 2021

Seventy miles west of Denver, in a small town nestled 8,574 feet above sea level there rests the town of Fraser. Today an enclave of 1,400 hearty souls it was...

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Queen of Scythes: The Protoindustrial Revolution Of Louisa Catharina Harkort

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 3, 2021

In the late 1750s and early 1760s, the Seven Years’ War, an intercontinental struggle that would largely determine the power structure of the world for the nex...

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Janaki Ammal And The Fight For India’s Botanical Future

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 28, 2021

Caste. Race. Gender. These were the three categories that, in early twentieth century Madras, combined to determine the boundaries of an individual’s potent...

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Book Review: Letter To A Young Female Physician by Suzanne Koven

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 14, 2021

Walking into a doctor’s office, most of us feel that we are crossing into the domain of some manner of super being, an individual who has stared steadily into ...

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Global Warming And Nuclear Fallout: The Foundational Geochemistry Of Saruhashi Katsuko

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 6, 2021

On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in the deserts of Alamogordo, New Mexico. At the time, it was not clear what might...

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Impossible Creatures, And How To Make Them: The Topological Legacy of Mathematician Mary Ellen Rudin

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 23, 2021

There’s a lot to like about plain old, everyday space. No matter where you are, there’s always a way to get to where you need to go, and you can always f...

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48 Years Ago Today: Billie Jean King Defeated Bobby Riggs In Battle Of The Sexes

wyskSeptember 20, 2021

More than 50 million Americans tuned in to watch, making it the most viewed U.S. tennis match of all time. More importantly, King's victory made it a game-changer for women’s tennis....

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Sarah Stewart Johnson, Mars, And The Search For Life As We Don’t Know It

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 15, 2021

The Red Planet has not always been kind to those who have given their lives to its study. Before the rise of rover-based observation, Mars had a particul...

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How A Culture Is Born: The Groundbreaking Anthropology Of Ruth Benedict

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 1, 2021

Cultures are strange creatures. What you can do and say, who you can love and when, who you may kill and how, are all subject to the accretion over the c...

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Empowerment Starts Within You… High School Senior Shares Her Powerful Perspective

Guest ContributorMarch 7, 2019

By Liz, a high school senior at Milton Hershey School - It has taken a lot for me to become the woman I am today, and I still have a long w...

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Sixth Graders Write, Record Anti-Bullying Song To Inspire Confidence In Other Girls

wyskFebruary 10, 2016

Lexi & Maddy were "tired of boys telling them they did things ‘like a girl.'" So they channeled their frustrations into creative energy and wrote a song....

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Welcome to Samantha Garvey’s Lemonade Stand Of Life

wyskJanuary 30, 2012

Samantha Garvey, a gifted, 17 year old high school senior, determined to fulfill her childhood dream of becoming a marine biologist and driven by the desire to help her family have a better life, was named a semifinalist in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search while her family was homeless....

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Giveaway: A Good, Healthy Book To Curl Up With

wyskNovember 15, 2011

Giveaway. Women You Should Know is giving away one copy of Leslie Goldman's book Locker Room Diaries: The Naked Truth About Women, Body Image, and Re-imagining the "Perfect" Body. ...

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Brilliant Cartoon Sums Up Trump And Clinton Campaigns In 19 Identical Lines, Read In Reverse Orders

wyskAugust 2, 2016

While the 19 lines of copy Joe Heller included are identical for both candidates, their meaning changes significantly based on the order in which you read them....

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