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

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 11, 2023

Our concept of living in a universe with a knowable and predictable future has taken two stunning blows in the last century, first from quantum mechanics in th...

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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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The Inspiring Teacher We Met… On Twitter

wyskApril 21, 2015

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An Ode To Astronomer Nancy Roman By 16-Year-Old WriteGirl Marina Orozco

wyskMarch 15, 2016

“I chose to write about Nancy Roman because she helped open the gates for women in math and science."...

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“Her Impact”: 14-Year-Old Adds Her Voice To Post-Election Conversation In Powerful Essay

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"I want to be president, but I don’t want to be first; I wanted Hillary to be first." - Emma Crowell, age 14...

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Happy Birthday To Me… Now Here’s My Gift To You!

wyskOctober 24, 2011

Brenda Berkman, retired FDNY Captain and devout volunteer, celebrated her 60th birthday by recruiting friends to join her in giving back with a day of service at Girls Prep Lower East Side Elementary School, the first all-girls charter school in New York City. ...

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Mad Men Season 5 Premieres March 25… What Will They Be Wearing

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The long-awaited Season 5 of AMC's Mad Men will debut with a special 2-hour premiere on Sunday, March 25. Read Women You Should Know's exclusive interview with Janie Bryant, the Emmy Award Winning costume designer and mastermind behind the signature look and historically accurate style of the ensemble cast of characters on Mad Men....

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She’s Taking On New York City To Fight A 150 Year Old Injustice To Women

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"The fact that no real women are honored by statues in the Nation’s most famous and most important park is not simply an oversight."...

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Women In Science New Book Release Roundup 2021

Dale DeBakcsyMay 5, 2021

There was a time when those of us in the Women In Science (WIS) book-verse considered it a banner year when TWO new major releases featurin...

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Guns N Taxonomy: The Vertebrate Biology Of Annie Alexander

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 20, 2019

As a rule, our favorite flavors of scientist are the theoretical and experimental – we tend to like them either sitting in a chair creating...

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Dr. Carolynn L. Smith And The Astounding Richness Of Animal Communication

Dale DeBakcsyMay 15, 2019

You’re a rooster who’s down on his luck. Your comb is a bit shabby, your fighting skills aren’t up to snuff, and we’re not even going to me...

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