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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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Women Making Bold Moves: Take Your Seat At Our Table For A Night Of Learning, Empowerment, And Fun

wyskMarch 26, 2021

In an empowering close to Women’s History Month 2021, Women You Should Know and Poker Divas are inviting women everywhere to take their seats at our table for ...

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Lexie Phillips Makes History As Jack Daniel’s First Woman Assistant Distiller

wyskMarch 19, 2021

Jack Daniel's, the first registered distillery in the United States (circa 1866), has named Lexie Phillips Assistant Distiller, making her the first woman to s...

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Chief Pamela Smith Is Now The First Black Woman To Lead 230-Year-Old U.S. Park Police

wyskFebruary 26, 2021

Yesterday, the National Park Service announced Pamela Smith has been named the new Chief of the United States Park Police (USPP), the nation’s oldest federal l...

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The Princess Narrative, Reinvented: 2021 Calendar Features 12 STEM Royals And The Power (Tools) They Wield To Inspire Girls

wyskDecember 9, 2020

Girls don’t need to choose between being a scientist and being a princess... because being brilliant in STEM and wearing lipstick are not mutually exclusive. T...

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Through A Satellite’s Gaze, The Past: The Career Of Space Archaeologist Sarah Parcak

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 9, 2020

It is an axiom in business that the more mundane the job, the more grandiose the title. Executives seem to believe that we will feel more resigned to a l...

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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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NASA Astronaut Dr. Jeanette Epps Set To Make History As Part Of First Operational Boeing Crew Mission To ISS

wyskSeptember 1, 2020

NASA has assigned astronaut Dr. Jeanette Epps to NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1 mission, the first operational crewed flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraf...

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