A Gift Unfathomable: The Piano Artistry Of Martha Argerich
How welcoming is a piano. It has a warm magnetism that pulls at the eager corners of hope - "Sit down. Press a key - a beautiful sound will happen....
Dale DeBakcsy
Breaking Neutral: The Population Genetics Of Tomoko Ohta
We are all mutants, our genes loaded with the steadily acquired variations of three billion years that gradually changed a collection of over-achieving thermop...
Caged By War: The Abbreviated Life Of Aeronautical Engineer And Test Pilot Countess Melitta von Stauffenberg
The last decade of Countess Melitta von Stauffenberg's life was ringed by impossible decisions, choices that you and I will never experience outside of a theor...
From Nebraska’s Fields To The Ocean’s Floor: The Long Road Of Evolutionary Biologist Elma González
There is a theory that curiosity originates in leisure, that only after one has taken care of the big important things like food and shelter can one spare the ...
Killer of Cancer, Slayer of Viruses: The Many Medicines Of Nobel Prize Laureate Gertrude Elion
Generally, our experience of a particular medicine is as a great faceless thing the name of which we don't know until we desperately need it, and the creation ...
From Threepenny To Cabaret: Lotte Lenya, Loss, And The Spirit Of Weimar
When Lotte Lenya stepped on stage for the opening night of Cabaret on November 20, 1966 for the first of what would be over one thousand performances as Fraule...
Disease Fighters: Six Women Who Combated Humanity’s Deadliest Threats
The last two months have seen heroism of unprecedented scale from the medical workers of the world, and among them a cavalcade of women nurses, doctors, emerge...
In Defense Of The Soil: A Century With Hydrodynamic Mathematician Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina
Water is that great, terrible thing. Its chemical properties make it a magnificent solvent and coolant, which is wonderful if you're trying to build a multice...
The Experimentalist: The Tale Of Mary Putnam Jacobi Vs. Proper Victorian Medicine
The Nineteenth century boasts a rich roster of medical women, any one of whom is the stuff of heroes: the trailblazing Blackwell sisters, the cautious Elizabet...
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.