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Maria Winkelmann And The Guilded Age Of Astronomy

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 16, 2022

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

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 26, 2022

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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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The Plant Matriarch Of The Pacific Slope: Sara Plummer Lemmon

Dale DeBakcsyJune 29, 2022

For thirty years, from the sweltering deserts of Arizona to the mountainous forests of Northern California, there traipsed a duo of botanists, broken in health...

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Achtung, Brainy: Grace Lindsay And The Mathematical Modeling Of The Human Brain

Dale DeBakcsyJune 22, 2022

You are placed in front of a screen that is black save for one spot of red in the center, and are told to focus strictly and solely upon that red dot. Yo...

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How Fossils Get That Way: Paleontologist Anna “Kay” Behrensmeyer’s Years Amidst Rock And Bone

Dale DeBakcsyJune 15, 2022

When it comes to bones, immortality is far from a sure thing. We generally think that the road from bone to fossil is a straight-forward and all but assu...

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Between The Children And Catastrophe, A Woman: Dr. Frances O. Kelsey’s Victory Over Thalidomide

Dale DeBakcsyJune 8, 2022

In September of 1960, the American pharmaceutical company Richardson-Merrell submitted their application to the FDA for the approval of Europe’s new wonder dru...

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Girls

Founded By 11-Year-Old Mandi Simon, “Simon Says Give” Celebrates Kids By Helping Them Celebrate Their Birthdays

wyskMay 18, 2015

"Simon Says Give is a company that I started because I wanted a better world for people to live in."...

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GoldieBlox Takes On Barbie With New Action Figure

wyskNovember 6, 2014

"She's not perfect. She's not a genius. She's not a beauty queen. She's really curious and she's messy and she's willing to take risks." ...

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Where’s Gamora? Superhero-Crazy Anya And Stella Scour Toy Aisles To Find Her [VIDEO]

wyskAugust 12, 2014

Watch what happens when girls try to buy action figures at a typical toy store....

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Entertainment

Fix-It Friday: Fixing For The Holidays With A Twist (Of Lemon)!

Norma VallyDecember 18, 2015

Norma "Toolbelt Diva" Vally, our home improvement pro and DIY guru, shares some home "fixes" that rank on the top of her to-do list, namely, fixing holiday cocktails....

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Comedian Laura Lexx Destroys Sexist Heckler

wyskMarch 22, 2016

Although it’s hard to hear exactly what the heckler is saying, Laura’s hilarious responses make it pretty clear as to what she was dealing with....

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Martha Carucci Bravely Shines A Spotlight On Alcoholism By Sharing Her Journey To Sobriety

Guest ContributorAugust 17, 2017

"I drank to numb. I drank to escape. I drank to celebrate, mourn, relax and to feel better. Name an occasion and I drank to it."...

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Women In Science

An ER Doctor In Space: The Story of Astronaut Rhea Seddon

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 8, 2020

The first astronaut class to include women candidates, announced in 1978 and self-dubbed the TFNG, or Thirty-Five New Guys, brought six wom...

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Anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons (1875-1941) And The Mechanics Of Cultural Change

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 28, 2018

Culture is not a thing. It is a negotiation, an ongoing tumult of borrowings and innovations hung upon a skeleton of previously accumulated...

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Born Not Taught: Marian Koshland And The Source Of Antibody Variation

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 18, 2019

The human body is a truly wonderful place to live, if you can fit in it. It's warm and protected and, because humans are so clever at...

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