Book Review: Letter To A Young Female Physician by Suzanne Koven
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 ...
Books
Women In Science New Book Release Roundup 2021
There was a time when those of us in the Women In Science (WIS) book-verse considered it a banner year when TWO new major releases featuring a prominent woman ...
Trailblazers Jennifer Pharr Davis And Haley Blevins Teach Kids How To Explore The Outdoors In New Interactive Book
What happens when two great friends - Jennifer Pharr Davis, a record-setting hiker who has covered over 14,000 miles of long distance trails on six different c...
Book Review: Volcanologist Jess Phoenix’s ‘Ms. Adventure: My Wild Explorations in Science, Lava, and Life’
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...
Ivory And Bone: Agatha Christie And Her Three Decades Of Archaeology
In a tent in Iraq, an Englishwoman attempts to sleep as mice crawl over her body and cockroaches look on from the walls. She is exhausted, having divided...
Biplanes, Airships, Submarines: My Talk With Dr. Nina Baker About The Engineering Legacy Of Hilda Lyon
One of the great things about writing this column is the fact that, from time to time, I get to talk with remarkable people about other remarkable people. ...
What You Should Know About Mary Shelley On Frankenstein Friday
A celebration of the legacy of Frankenstein and an homage to its WYSKy creator, author Mary Shelley....
Book Review: Diving Once More Into the Cosmic Ocean… Ann Druyan’s ‘Cosmos: Possible Worlds’
In 1980, PBS broadcast a series that defined for a generation what Science Communication could and must be. Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, co-written by Carl...
The Woman In The Window: A.J. Finn’s Best-Seller Headed To The Big Screen With Amy Adams Starring
Gillian Flynn declared the book, "Astounding. Thrilling. Amazing." Stephen King said it was, "Unputdownable." Ruth Ware called it, "A dark, twisty confection."...