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Putting Tools In More Girls’ Hands: NYC Nonprofit That Teaches Girls Construction Skills Launches Boston Chapter

wyskJune 1, 2022

Tradeswoman-Founded Tools & Tiaras Inc. Meets Growing Demand For Programming, Expands To Show Girls (Ages 6-17) In The Greater New England Area That "Jobs ...

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Book Review: Letter To A Young Female Physician by Suzanne Koven

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 14, 2021

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 ...

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Studies In Expectation: The Life Of Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Dale DeBakcsyJune 16, 2021

Sometimes the hardest thing about living in the universe is knowing about it. There is real and true terror to be faced in the indifferent march of the u...

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It Takes A Forest To Grow A Tree: The Revolutionary Forest Ecology Of Suzanne Simard

Dale DeBakcsyMay 27, 2021

Four short decades ago, the prevailing wisdom among forestry officials was the "Free To Grow" model by which, when a forest was clear cut for lumber, the earth...

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Book Review: Volcanologist Jess Phoenix’s ‘Ms. Adventure: My Wild Explorations in Science, Lava, and Life’

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 31, 2021

Science communication is all too often a matter of reporting end states. Scientist X has discovered Thing Y, and we should be happy/anxious/enraged about...

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One Woman Against The Black Death: The Saga Of Dr. Edith Pechey-Phipson And The Fight For Medical Women in India

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 21, 2020

In 1896, the city of Bombay recorded its first case of bubonic plague, a disease which would grow to claim ten million lives over the following decade as the g...

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Paola Prestini And The Birth of Classical Music’s New Way Forward

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 30, 2020

Picture a composer.What you've probably brought to mind is an image of a tortured soul, locked away in a dim attic, quill in trembling hand, trying despera...

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A Scientist Takes The Helm: The Story of German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 29, 2020

In 1989, Angela Merkel was a quantum chemist with a respectable reputation for applying statistical mathematics to chemical analysis. In 1991, she was a ...

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The Fourth Castle: The Unfathomable Resiliency Of Pioneering Oceanographer Kathleen Crane

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 22, 2020

Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second ...

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