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Artist Cynthia Young Paints Courageous “Women Who Have Guided Us On Our Path” In New Series

wyskMarch 10, 2021

Cynthia Young is a New Mexico based oil painter. In her latest, oh-so-WYSKy series - "Women Who Have Guided Us On Our Path" - she honors inspiring women who ha...

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How Kalinga Institute Of Social Sciences Inspired My Political Feminism

Guest ContributorMarch 4, 2021

By Jamuna Madi - I remember that horrific night before Ganesh Puja in 2008–it was one of the longest nights of my life. The September Hindu festival celebrates...

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History-Making Ophthalmologist Dr. Patricia Bath Could Be First Black Woman Inducted Into National Inventors Hall Of Fame

wyskFebruary 23, 2021

Dr. Patricia Bath (1942-2019) lived a life without limits. She was the first Black American to complete an Ophthalmology residency at New Y...

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Can We Please Start Talking About Perimenopause?

Guest ContributorFebruary 18, 2021

By Skylar Liberty Rose - During a recent visit with my doctor I referred to some issues I’d been having with my periods. I explained that over the past year th...

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Naval Engineer Raye Montague And The Tale Of The World’s First Computer-Designed Naval Vessel

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 17, 2021

In March 1971, a computer science whiz with an unlikely background was given six months to complete a seemingly impossible project for the United States Navy: ...

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Marcy Bursac’s New Book Champions Foster Care Adoption And The 120,000 U.S. Children In The System Who Need Permanent Families

Leah LaRoccoFebruary 16, 2021

Marcy Bursac spent 12 years in social services confronting its weaknesses, and advocating for the welfare of the most vulnerable in the system. Teen pregn...

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Catalysts And Photoreactivity: Discoveries From The Life Of Elizabeth Fulhame, Europe’s First Woman Chemical Researcher

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 10, 2021

Sometimes, the presence of a third party allows two people to accomplish something they either could not pull off, or would take an agonizingly long time to ac...

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Biplanes, Airships, Submarines: My Talk With Dr. Nina Baker About The Engineering Legacy Of Hilda Lyon

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 27, 2021

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. ...

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Our Endogenous Retroviruses, Ourselves: The Life And Legacy Of Dr. Anna Marie Skalka

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 13, 2021

In 1970, everybody knew, or believed they did, how the flow of genetic information in a cell works. The Central Dogma of genetics dictated that DNA is transcr...

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