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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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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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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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Gone, Fission: How Lise Meitner Was Written Out Of The Nuclear Age

Dale DeBakcsyApril 3, 2019

To fully appreciate Lise Meitner, you have to first forget everything you learned about the atom in high school. Forget that the nucleus is made up of ne...

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Guns N Taxonomy: The Vertebrate Biology Of Annie Alexander

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 20, 2019

As a rule, our favorite flavors of scientist are the theoretical and experimental – we tend to like them either sitting in a chair creating beautiful abstracti...

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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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