The Professor And The Frogs: The Ecology And Herpetology Of Margaret Stewart
Amphibians today are experiencing a population crisis of unprecedented scale. Frogs are going extinct, according to the most conservative estimates, at t...
Dale DeBakcsy
The People’s Soprano: Jenny Lind And The Price of Perfection
There will never again be a musician as universally adored and adulated as soprano Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale. Everywhere she went, even facing ...
Food’s Bright Future: Leah Garcés And The Long Struggle To Replace Factory Farming
Vegans and meat consumers do not typically enter into common cause. To the meat eater, vegans are bleeding heart, elitist scolds, and to the vegan, meat consu...
Siblings In Cognition: Diana Reiss And The Study Of The Dolphin Mind
One of the most persistently amazing things about modern science has been its ability to cut humanity loose from the limitations of our immediate caveperson co...
Forgetting Elizebeth Friedman: How America’s Greatest Cryptanalyst Lay Unnoticed For A Half Century
When World War I came at last to the United States, the armed forces found themselves in the embarrassing predicament of having no idea whatsoever on how to de...
Born Not Taught: Marian Koshland And The Source Of Antibody Variation
The human body is a truly wonderful place to live, if you can fit in it. It's warm and protected and, because humans are so clever at finding all the bes...
Fearless Memory: Our First Three Decades With Lera Auerbach, Composer, Pianist, Poet, Artist
One of the things that consistently blows my students' minds is the fact that there are still classical composers living today. After being taken through...
Valentina Tereshkova: The First Woman In Space
"It is I, Sea Gull!"The words, full of meaning both personal for the speaker and cultural for the country listening below, were the first spoken by a woman...
Spherical Triangles and Domineering Males: The Saga Of Mathematician Grace Chisholm Young
When Grace Chisholm, at age 28, married the mathematician William Henry Young, she had every prospect of a brilliant career before her. The previous year she ...
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.