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Dream Big Mural Celebrates Teen Changemaker And Aspiring Astronaut Taylor Richardson

wyskSeptember 12, 2019

Wow! Wow! Wow! This inspiring mural on the Upper Eastside of Jacksonville, Florida was created by some incredible students from James Weldon Johnson, a Duval C...

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Teen Honors Mom In Winning Doodle For Google Illustration

wyskAugust 14, 2019

Congratulations to high school senior Arantza Peña Popo, who was announced as the winner of the US 2019 Doodle for Google national competition. This ye...

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The Woman Who Invented the Modern Concert: Clara Schumann, Master of the Piano

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 24, 2019

In mid-nineteenth century Europe, two colossi of the keyboard crisscrossed the continent, leaving masses of ecstatic fans in their wake, and they could not hav...

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4-Year-Old Picks Out “Boy Craft”, Proves Toy Maker So Wrong By Building HER Own Monster Truck

wyskJune 19, 2019

Meet 4-year-old Norah. She’s a girl who’s really into trucks, dinosaurs, baseball, superheroes, and all things "cool", as she likes to say. Her mom, Jennifer R...

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Mushrooms, Fossils, And A Pen To Draw Them With: Beatrix Potter, Naturalist

Dale DeBakcsyMay 22, 2019

"I don't know what to write to you, so I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter." In 1893,...

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Botanist, Artist, Nurse, And Teacher: Sara Plummer Lemmon’s Western Legacies

Guest ContributorApril 23, 2019

By Wynne Brown - It was most likely a bitter cold December day in 1869 as the wooden side-wheeled steamer churned through the New York City harbor. Sara Plumme...

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Vulvas: Officially Scarier Than Satan

Guest ContributorApril 10, 2019

A cartoon from the 1800s shows the devil being chased off by a woman lifting her skirts, because vulvas are apparently worse than the source of all evil. By...

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Downloadable STEM Role Models Posters Inspire Global Frenzy, Released In 7 Additional Languages

wyskMarch 8, 2019

Last month we featured a downloadable set of eight stunning and brilliantly inspiring STEM Role Models posters commissioned by Nevertheless podcast, and illust...

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12-Year-Old Artist and Author Lends Her Talent To Paint Portrait Of A Woman Everyone Should Know

wyskFebruary 26, 2019

Trisha Rao has been painting since the age of 2, and has always loved to express herself through art and poetry. Now 12, she’s created over 300 acrylic paintin...

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