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Dr. Cardy Raper And The Four Decade Search For The Key To Mushroom Sex

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 13, 2019

Let's do a thought experiment. Imagine that human reproduction worked this way: at a certain age you are blindfolded and led to a massive field with a hu...

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Downloadable STEM Role Models Posters Inspire Global Frenzy, Released In 7 Additional Languages

wyskMarch 8, 2019

Last month we featured a downloadable set of eight stunning and brilliantly inspiring STEM Role Models posters commissioned by Nevertheless podcast, and illust...

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60 Minutes Cut Women Leaders Out Of A Story On Getting Girls Into Tech, And It Broke The Internet

Guest ContributorMarch 7, 2019

By Ruthe Farmer & Dr. Leigh Ann DeLyser, CSforALL - Sunday March 3, at the start of Women’s History Month, 60 Minutes aired a segment on changing the rates...

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Theano of Croton And The Pythagorean Women Of Ancient Greece

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 27, 2019

2500 years ago, in a small but soon to be revered town in Southern Italy, a group of men and women gathered, united by the proposition that the universe is, at...

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Our Favorite Science Teacher, A 9-Year-Old Aspiring Nobel Laureate, Demos Hair Raising Lesson

wyskFebruary 11, 2019

When we first met Samatha Kranthijanya she was 6 years old and taught us the fundamentals of dark matter using cake (as dark matter) and candy (as the stars in...

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Downloadable STEM Role Models Posters Celebrate Women Innovators As Illustrated By Women Artists

wyskFebruary 11, 2019

Now at the end of its second season, Nevertheless, a truly WYSKy podcast that tells the stories of women who are transforming teaching and learning through tec...

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Girl Scout To Galaxy Explorer: How Caeley Looney Discovered Her Path To Aerospace Engineering In Middle School

Guest ContributorFebruary 11, 2019

By Shruti Kumar - It’s almost as if the stars aligned to bring Caeley Looney into the world of aerospace engineering. Caeley was born to two engineers?—?her mo...

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More Than A Prize Unwon: The Manifold Legacies Of Rosalind Franklin

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 6, 2019

When Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) succumbed to cancer at the age of thirty-seven, she left behind monumental contributions to three different fields of scienc...

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Lucy Evelyn Cheesman, Pioneer Entomologist of the Pacific Islands

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 30, 2019

Dangling over the edge of a cliffside, her hands gripping a couple clumps of bracken embedded in the rock for dear life, Lucy Evelyn Cheesman (1881-1969) might...

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