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‘Save Our Moms’ Campaign Brings Awareness To Maternal Mortality In U.S.

wyskMay 13, 2019

“In the past 30 years, deaths from pregnancy-related complications have doubled in the United States, making it the most dangerous place in the developed world...

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Marissa Zappas Aims To Disrupt The Fragrance Industry By Using Scent To Connect Women Of The Past To Women Today

wyskMay 10, 2019

Marissa Zappas is an anthropologist turned perfumer who has combined her two passions into an artisan fragrance collection called Redamance. It’s a historical ...

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Sneak Peek Of Toni Morrison Documentary “The Pieces I Am”

wyskMay 2, 2019

As committed fans of Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison, we are very excited for the new documentary film The Pieces I Am, which chronicles the legendary...

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Hedy Lamarr: The Movie Star Who Invented Bluetooth… In 1942

Dale DeBakcsyMay 1, 2019

A movie star. An avant-garde composer. A radio-controlled torpedo. Wi-Fi. One of the unfortunate truths about our web of modern comforts is tha...

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March For Our Lives PSA Shows “Expert” Middle Schooler Teaching Adults What To Do In Case Of A Shooting At Work

wyskApril 30, 2019

March For Our Lives, the a student-led organization demanding stronger gun violence prevention measures, has released the new PSA Generation Lockdown (**this v...

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From Where I Stand: “We are trying to build a drone…to dispense medicines in rural areas” – 15-Year-Old Coder, Eno Ekanem, Abuja, Nigeria

wyskApril 25, 2019

By UN Women - Fifteen-year-old Eno Ekanem was among 80 girls from 34 African countries who attended the first Coding Camp in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 24 August...

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9-Year-Old Riley Dashwood’s Celeb Photo Recreations Are Hilarious

wyskApril 25, 2019

Ok, we’ve seen a lot of cool and fun photo recreations over the years, but 9-year-old social media pro Riley Dashwood has taken it to next level awesomeness. &...

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Lead, TNT, And Rayon: Dr. Alice Hamilton’s Battle Against Industrial Poisons

Dale DeBakcsyApril 24, 2019

The lack of regulation in American industry during the early Twentieth Century is the stuff of horrific legend - from the grotesqueries of the meat industry as...

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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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