Brains In Love And Brains Alone: The Social Neuroscience Of Stephanie Cacioppo
One would think that there is no aspect of the brain’s multitudinous biochemical majesty that lies outside of the interest of neuroscientists. There is an emba...
Dale DeBakcsy
Letting Loose The Dogs of Chaos: Mary Lucy Cartwright And Her Pioneering Portrayals Of Functions Behaving Badly
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...
To Battle, And Battle, And Battle: The Many Struggles Of American Red Cross Founder Clara Barton
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...
Genius Overcome: The Destruction of Catherine de Parthenay
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...
Maria Winkelmann And The Guilded Age Of Astronomy
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...
Champion Of Chinese Heliocentrism: How Wang Zhenyi Went From Horseback Martial Artist To Stellar Mathematician
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 ...
Kepler, For the People: Maria Cunitz’s Urania Propitia And The Popularization Of Heliocentrism
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...
The Life Stories Of Birds: How Margaret Morse Nice Ended Ornithology’s Long List Era
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...
Return To Nature: Stella Brewer And The Science Of Chimpanzee Rehabilitation
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...
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.