The Marine Biology Of Eugenie Clark, Also Known As The “Shark Lady”
It’s Shark Week! In celebration we’d like to introduce you to woman you should know marine biologist Eugenie Clark, also known as the “Shark Lady"....
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“Forces of Nature” Great Women In Science Poster Series Returns With 3 New Downloads
By Eamon O’Flynn - Last autumn, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics released a series of free, downloadable posters that celebrated groundbreaking contr...
“Forces Of Nature” Downloadable Poster Series Celebrates Great Women In Science
By Eamon O'Flynn - The first computer algorithm. Stellar classification systems. The discovery of new elements, forces, and other building blocks of nature....
Five Fast Facts About Mae Jemison, Physician, Scientist, Engineer, And History-Making Astronaut
“The whole idea is to keep kids engaged and not let them think science is something other folks do. Science is around us everywhere.”...
Meet Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier: Gene Editing Rockstars Whose Discovery Is Changing Fate Of Humankind
The last decade has seen human destiny quietly but irrevocably redirected. From blind victims of genetic-molecular chance, we have taken our first steps towards...
The Women in Science Reading List: The 20 Best Books To Read and Own
An curated list of nineteenth century and early twentieth century biographies of women in science.
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The Astronomy of Maria Mitchell (1818-1889), The First American To Discover A New Comet
In the early nineteenth century nothing about the island of Nantucket made sense. It was simultaneously a hotbed of Quakerism and of the notoriously bawdy and v...
#LetHerSpeak: Audience Member Calls Out Moderator Who Kept Interrupting And Mansplaining The One Female Panelist
You know the story, it starts with a panel of five men and one woman… you get where we are going with this? But wait, there’s a different ending.Last week, ...
A Bit of Nature Before Bedtime: 10 Women in Science Children’s Books
As a parent, as a science teacher, and as a writer about the history of women in science, some of my most beautiful moments in life have come from reading child...