A Healer At The Fringe Of Civilization: The Siberian Odyssey Of Doctor Anna Bek
It is the early 1870s and we are heading into the mining town of Gornyi Zerentui, located in the mountainous Transbaikal region on the distant Siberian fringe ...
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“Can You Please Call Us Back”… Why I’m Glad I Forced Myself To Do A Mammogram In The Time Of COVID
By Cheryl Laughlin - 2020 had a certain symmetry built into it. By January 2, 2020, I was fleeing the soul-suck of a demeaning job for a soul-pump of a bright ...
Meet Design Pioneer Sara Little Turnbull. Her Inspiration Shaped The N95 Mask. Her Many Innovations Still Better Us Today.
By Amy Chen - At a time when women in business were few, Sara Little Turnbull (1917 – 2015), design pioneer, corporate influencer, an American original, earned...
A Tribute To Our Sister, Comrade And Friend Helen Harrison… Firefighter, Changemaker, Champion Of Equality
Firefighter and union leader Helen Harrison passed away on April 18, 2020 at the age of 55 from cancer. A champion of equality, Helen worked tirelessly to ensu...
COVID Agents Of Change: All Women-Staffed Education Provider Leads In Delivering Learning Innovation And Community Relief Across Pakistan
By Nathan Martin - COVID-19 may have closed the world's classrooms, but educators continue to find ways to teach and to support their local communities. In Pak...
The First Time I Welded… Penelope Amaya, Age 13, Pens Inspiring Essay On Being Fearless
By Penelope Amaya - It was a rainy Saturday morning in 2019, I was about to go somewhere exciting. I woke up super early because I was excited for this day to ...
Breaking Neutral: The Population Genetics Of Tomoko Ohta
We are all mutants, our genes loaded with the steadily acquired variations of three billion years that gradually changed a collection of over-achieving thermop...
Caged By War: The Abbreviated Life Of Aeronautical Engineer And Test Pilot Countess Melitta von Stauffenberg
The last decade of Countess Melitta von Stauffenberg's life was ringed by impossible decisions, choices that you and I will never experience outside of a theor...
Of Loss And Hope: High School Senior Eliza Stoehrer Writes-Performs Moving Song For Class Of 2020 Students Everywhere
Eliza Stoehrer is a student at Saint Anthony's High School in South Huntington, NY. In March she was readying to enjoy the best part of her senior year, the la...