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Impossible Creatures, And How To Make Them: The Topological Legacy of Mathematician Mary Ellen Rudin

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 23, 2021

There’s a lot to like about plain old, everyday space. No matter where you are, there’s always a way to get to where you need to go, and you can always f...

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Sarah Stewart Johnson, Mars, And The Search For Life As We Don’t Know It

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 15, 2021

The Red Planet has not always been kind to those who have given their lives to its study. Before the rise of rover-based observation, Mars had a particul...

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How A Culture Is Born: The Groundbreaking Anthropology Of Ruth Benedict

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 1, 2021

Cultures are strange creatures. What you can do and say, who you can love and when, who you may kill and how, are all subject to the accretion over the c...

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Studies In Expectation: The Life Of Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Dale DeBakcsyJune 16, 2021

Sometimes the hardest thing about living in the universe is knowing about it. There is real and true terror to be faced in the indifferent march of the u...

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Varieties: The Life And Mathematics Of Hanna Neumann

Dale DeBakcsyJune 9, 2021

Of all the realms of mathematics, there are few where more people feel more at home than in the safe harbors of algebra. Since the age of eight, we have ...

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Death And Time: The Pioneering Biostratigraphy Of Julia Anna Gardner

Dale DeBakcsyJune 2, 2021

On a lonely stretch of Florida swamp road, in the year 1920, a model T Ford with no headlights and two hastily replaced tires is trying to make its way through...

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It Takes A Forest To Grow A Tree: The Revolutionary Forest Ecology Of Suzanne Simard

Dale DeBakcsyMay 27, 2021

Four short decades ago, the prevailing wisdom among forestry officials was the "Free To Grow" model by which, when a forest was clear cut for lumber, the earth...

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Master Of Matrices: Olga Taussky-Todd And How One Of Math’s Coolest Objects Refound Its Groove

Dale DeBakcsyMay 12, 2021

In high school, matrices don’t get anything near a fair shake. In case it’s been a while, matrices were those rectangular grids of numbers that look some...

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Women In Science New Book Release Roundup 2021

Dale DeBakcsyMay 5, 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 ...

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