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From Nebraska’s Fields To The Ocean’s Floor: The Long Road Of Evolutionary Biologist Elma González

Dale DeBakcsyApril 29, 2020

There is a theory that curiosity originates in leisure, that only after one has taken care of the big important things like food and shelter can one spare the ...

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13-Year-Old Artist Creates Hero Award For All To Share With Healthcare Workers On COVID-19 Frontline

wyskApril 28, 2020

Hero Award: Thank you heroes on the frontline…for saving our lives while putting yours on the lineIn a creative show of appreciation for medical profession...

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Essential Risk: NYC Plumber Judaline Cassidy On Working In Building Trades During COVID-19 Crisis

wyskApril 16, 2020

Judaline Cassidy has been a plumber in NYC for more than two decades. She is a master of her craft, and a champion of equality in the still male-dominated cons...

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Killer of Cancer, Slayer of Viruses: The Many Medicines Of Nobel Prize Laureate Gertrude Elion

Dale DeBakcsyApril 15, 2020

Generally, our experience of a particular medicine is as a great faceless thing the name of which we don't know until we desperately need it, and the creation ...

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We’re Packaging Care For Those Experiencing Homelessness In Ottawa During COVID-19 Crisis

Guest ContributorApril 8, 2020

By Taijah Cox-Armstrong - When the world begins to fall apart, we humans need to stick together. My name is Taijah Cox-Armstrong. I’m in my second year of coll...

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Girl Coded App For Best Friend With Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Inspires Creation Of True Hero Hospital Doll

wyskApril 7, 2020

At 18 months old, Grace O’Malley was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2 (SMA2), a disease that affects "the motor nerve cells in the spinal cord, ta...

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Fact v Fiction: “And The People Stayed Home” Viral Poem By Kitty O’Meara (2020), Not Kathleen O’Mara (1869)

wyskApril 6, 2020

"And the people stayed home." This is the opening line of an untitled poem that’s gone wildly viral. Social media posts shared now 10s of 1,000s of times by pe...

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Disease Fighters: Six Women Who Combated Humanity’s Deadliest Threats

Dale DeBakcsyApril 1, 2020

The last two months have seen heroism of unprecedented scale from the medical workers of the world, and among them a cavalcade of women nurses, doctors, emerge...

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In Defense Of The Soil: A Century With Hydrodynamic Mathematician Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 25, 2020

Water is that great, terrible thing. Its chemical properties make it a magnificent solvent and coolant, which is wonderful if you're trying to build a multice...

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