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Girl Scout, Age 6, Pushes Through Fears, Challenges Daily, Determined To Sell 4,040 Boxes Of Cookies

wyskJanuary 23, 2020

Meet 6-year-old Stella Vanwhy. She joined the Girl Scouts just 5 months ago and is already a cookie entrepreneur managing her first sale and a very big goal: s...

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Love And Butterflies: The Adventures Of Victorian Lepidopterist Margaret Fountaine

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 15, 2020

For a young English woman of respectable lineage, the 19th century offered a clear, well delineated path from birth to death, full of tradition and routine and...

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Sorry, But Male Geniuses Are Replaceable

Guest ContributorOctober 8, 2019

Science is a process, and exaggerating a single person’s contributions prohibits progress — especially when that person derails women’s careers.By Sarah Ol...

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Dr. Frances Kelsey, The Woman Who Saved The US From The Worst Pharmaceutical Disaster In History

Guest ContributorAugust 1, 2019

By James Essinger - Most people in the United States today have never heard of the drug thalidomide, but they ought to know the danger they escaped. I...

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Young Female Rocket Scientist Launches Nation’s First Print Magazine For Girls In STEM

Guest ContributorJune 26, 2019

By Natalie Hahn - Reinvented Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, this month announced the launch of their magazine’s first issue. Reinvented Magazin...

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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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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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Clean Water, Breathable Air, And The Science Of Food: The Remarkable Legacy Of Ellen Swallow

Dale DeBakcsyMay 16, 2018

Every morning we wake up to a feast of assumptions. We assume that the place our sewage gets dumped is not the same place our drinking water comes from. We in...

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