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Brains In Love And Brains Alone: The Social Neuroscience Of Stephanie Cacioppo

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 18, 2023

Letting Loose The Dogs of Chaos: Mary Lucy Cartwright And Her Pioneering Portrayals Of Functions Behaving Badly

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 11, 2023

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To Battle, And Battle, And Battle: The Many Struggles Of American Red Cross Founder Clara Barton

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 14, 2022

Clara Barton was on this planet for nine decades, and spent roughly seven of those locked in institutional struggles that would have broken and gutted a person...

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Genius Overcome: The Destruction of Catherine de Parthenay

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 7, 2022

The life of Catherine de Parthenay (1554-1631) was dominated by national religious conflict and her decision to take a pivotal role of resistance at the all-co...

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Maria Winkelmann And The Guilded Age Of Astronomy

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 16, 2022

Back in the age when historians favored hard and fast lines between different Eras of world history, 1543 stood as the gold standard boundary between the Old w...

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Champion Of Chinese Heliocentrism: How Wang Zhenyi Went From Horseback Martial Artist To Stellar Mathematician

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 26, 2022

An arrow hits a target as a fifteen year old girl on a horse goes galloping victoriously by. It is not an unusual sight in late eighteenth century China ...

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Kepler, For the People: Maria Cunitz’s Urania Propitia And The Popularization Of Heliocentrism

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 12, 2022

When Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) rewrote our conception of how heavenly bodies move by replacing the ideal and eternal circles of classical philosophy with ell...

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The Life Stories Of Birds: How Margaret Morse Nice Ended Ornithology’s Long List Era

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 4, 2022

When you headed out into the field as a 19th century ornithologist, you had one of two things in mind as to what constituted your profession: (1) to look for b...

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Return To Nature: Stella Brewer And The Science Of Chimpanzee Rehabilitation

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 31, 2022

Our interactions with our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, the chimpanzees, have rarely been entirely honorable. We dress them up in amusing hats, teac...

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Geology For The Future: Marcia Bjornerud And The Stories That Rocks May Tell

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 25, 2022

Scientific education in the United States has been characterized in the last two decades by a dizzying program of modernization and experimentation. An average...

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“Bordering on the Marvellous”: The Astronomical Menagerie of Williamina Paton Fleming

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 27, 2022

When William Huggins became the first human to examine the spectrum of a star in 1864, he could little have imagined the magnitude of the project he had brough...

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Girls

This 6 Year Old Surfer Is Making Big Waves

wyskAugust 25, 2014

Quincy Symonds may just be the best surfer and skater on the planet. Prepare to be inspired....

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Halloween Horror Story: Feminist Dad’s Scary Visit To The Girls’ Costume Aisle

Guest ContributorOctober 23, 2013

Faced with an endless sea of sassy, pink cuteness, and a total lack of scary, tough, or professional looks, this father of two ask why girls aren't given more and better Halloween costume choices....

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Tech Tuesday: GoldieBlox Breaks Into Toys R Us [VIDEO]

wyskJuly 2, 2013

"It’s about time we opened our girls’ minds beyond the pink aisle at the toy store. It’s time to build a new story so our girls can help build our future.”...

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