The Concerns Of The Earth, And Above: Mae Jemison’s Life In Medicine And Space Travel
There is a bit of political wisdom we have lived with for half a century now, which says that spending money on space travel, while social problems still exist...
Dale DeBakcsy
Spectral Lines From A Dying Nation: The Molecular Spectrometry Of Hertha Sponer
It is hard to imagine a time and place outside of Charles Dickens’s Revolutionary France that more embodies the spirit of the Best of Times and Worst of Times ...
A Doctor At Sky’s Edge: Susan Anderson And The Practice Of Medicine On America’s Last Frontier
Seventy miles west of Denver, in a small town nestled 8,574 feet above sea level there rests the town of Fraser. Today an enclave of 1,400 hearty souls it was...
Queen of Scythes: The Protoindustrial Revolution Of Louisa Catharina Harkort
In the late 1750s and early 1760s, the Seven Years’ War, an intercontinental struggle that would largely determine the power structure of the world for the nex...
Janaki Ammal And The Fight For India’s Botanical Future
Caste. Race. Gender. These were the three categories that, in early twentieth century Madras, combined to determine the boundaries of an individual’s potent...
Book Review: Letter To A Young Female Physician by Suzanne Koven
Walking into a doctor’s office, most of us feel that we are crossing into the domain of some manner of super being, an individual who has stared steadily into ...
Global Warming And Nuclear Fallout: The Foundational Geochemistry Of Saruhashi Katsuko
On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in the deserts of Alamogordo, New Mexico. At the time, it was not clear what might...
Impossible Creatures, And How To Make Them: The Topological Legacy of Mathematician Mary Ellen Rudin
There’s a lot to like about plain old, everyday space. No matter where you are, there’s always a way to get to where you need to go, and you can always f...
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
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.