STEM

In the 1750s, when France was foundering scientifically in the Cartesian shallows, it took Emilie du Châtelet’s French translation of Newton’s Principia to rein...

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...

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 ...