Sarah Stewart Johnson, Mars, And The Search For Life As We Don’t Know It
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...
Dale DeBakcsy
How A Culture Is Born: The Groundbreaking Anthropology Of Ruth Benedict
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...
Studies In Expectation: The Life Of Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Sometimes the hardest thing about living in the universe is knowing about it. There is real and true terror to be faced in the indifferent march of the u...
Varieties: The Life And Mathematics Of Hanna Neumann
Of all the realms of mathematics, there are few where more people feel more at home than in the safe harbors of algebra. Since the age of eight, we have ...
Death And Time: The Pioneering Biostratigraphy Of Julia Anna Gardner
On a lonely stretch of Florida swamp road, in the year 1920, a model T Ford with no headlights and two hastily replaced tires is trying to make its way through...
It Takes A Forest To Grow A Tree: The Revolutionary Forest Ecology Of Suzanne Simard
Four short decades ago, the prevailing wisdom among forestry officials was the "Free To Grow" model by which, when a forest was clear cut for lumber, the earth...
Master Of Matrices: Olga Taussky-Todd And How One Of Math’s Coolest Objects Refound Its Groove
In high school, matrices don’t get anything near a fair shake. In case it’s been a while, matrices were those rectangular grids of numbers that look some...
Women In Science New Book Release Roundup 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 featuring a prominent woman ...
Lady Of Iron: The Life Of Victorian Industrialist Lady Charlotte Guest
There was a time, during the Golden Age of Railroads, when the name of the small Welsh town of Dowlais was stamped on iron rails that ran the length of the dev...
Dale DeBakcsy
Dale DeBakcsy is the writer and artist of the Women In Science and Cartoon History of Humanism columns, and has, since 2007, co-written the webcomic Frederick the Great: A Most Lamentable Comedy with Geoffrey Schaeffer. He is also a regular contributor to The Freethinker, Philosophy Now, Free Inquiry, and Skeptical Inquirer. He studied intellectual history at Stanford and UC Berkeley before becoming a teacher of mathematics and drawer of historical frippery.