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Let’s Help Make The Proposed Dr. Jane Goodall LEGO Set A Reality!

wyskSeptember 26, 2018

Over the years, we’ve been excited to see more women represented in the LEGO minifig world. Back in 2013 the company introduced us to Professor C. Bodin, LEGO's...

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Sabine Hossenfelder and the Trials of 21st Century Physics

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 26, 2018

It is a story in three acts, ending with many bangs and much whimpering. Act I: In the early 20th century, a small cadre of physicists laid the groundwork f...

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17-Year-Old STEM Scholar Pens Powerful Essay On Invaluable Rewards Of Pushing Past Self-Doubt

Guest ContributorAugust 15, 2018

My name is Diana Mendoza, and I am the next generation of this country’s great architects, engineers and designers. At 17, I am heading into my junior year a...

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The Curve Who Became a Witch: The Mathematics of Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799)

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 8, 2018

If any century would have favorably understood the manic blend of child shaming and twisted pride that is the typical Toddlers and Tiaras pageant parent, it was...

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Icie Macy Hoobler (1892-1984) And The Science of Infant-Mother Nutrition

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 23, 2018

A young mother of the early twentieth century who couldn't or didn't want to breastfeed was a creature entirely at the hands of bumbling chance. Doctors of the ...

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Generations: The Story of Women in Neutrino Research

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 11, 2018

The most powerful force in the study of physics is not gravity or electromagnetism. It is not love, or courage. It is accounting. "But that doesn't qui...

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Women Killing It: Candice Hughes, Pharma/Biotech Entrepreneur, PhD, MBA, On Grit, Persistence And Failure

Sally HubbardJuly 2, 2018

"You don’t have to be perfect. You just have to be present. How you are is good enough." - Candice Hughes In this episode of the Women Killing It! podcast, h...

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115 Years Ago Today Marie Sklodowska Curie Made History

wyskJune 25, 2018

"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy." - Marie Sk?odowska Curie...

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Lillian Moller Gilbreth “The First Lady Of Engineering” And The Founding Of Industrial Psychology

Dale DeBakcsyMay 24, 2018

There was nothing in the first 26 years of Lillian Moller's life which suggested she would some day come to be known as the First Lady of Engineering....

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