There is a lot of life left to live after one's children are out of the house.
It might seem an obvious statement, but it was a fact that the university syst...
When planning a trip to the universe's first millionth of a second of existence, there are really only two things the canny traveler needs to keep in mind:
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Prior to the Eighteenth Century, the answer to the question, "Who was allowed to practice medicine?" was relatively simple: Damn near anybody. While those who ...
It is 1942, and Allied bombs are raking the city of Turin, wreaking a thudding vengeance for Il Duce’s cynical alliance with Nazi Germany. Amidst the panic and...
How much of womanhood is a matter of biology, and how much one of culture? Prior to 1929, Freudian psychoanalysis had closed rank determinedly around a biologi...
I am looking at a bookshelf of fading stories. Here are biographies long out of print of women who changed their time (and ours) for the better but whose lives ...
On paper, the octopus looks like a mythical beast we made up by combining all of the most outlandish bits from our favorite fictional characters. It has multip...
In the Seventeenth Century, smallpox ravaged Europe with a persistent ferocity beyond reckoning. At its height, it killed 400,000 Europeans a year, in a manner...
What did Ada Lovelace do?
She is one of the most fetishized scientists today - at conventions when I'm taking sketch commissions she ranks just behind Tesla ...
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.