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A Doctor At Sky’s Edge: Susan Anderson And The Practice Of Medicine On America’s Last Frontier

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 17, 2021

Seventy miles west of Denver, in a small town nestled 8,574 feet above sea level there rests the town of Fraser. Today an enclave of 1,400 hearty souls it was...

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Queen of Scythes: The Protoindustrial Revolution Of Louisa Catharina Harkort

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 3, 2021

In the late 1750s and early 1760s, the Seven Years’ War, an intercontinental struggle that would largely determine the power structure of the world for the nex...

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Janaki Ammal And The Fight For India’s Botanical Future

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 28, 2021

Caste. Race. Gender. These were the three categories that, in early twentieth century Madras, combined to determine the boundaries of an individual’s potent...

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Book Review: Letter To A Young Female Physician by Suzanne Koven

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 14, 2021

Walking into a doctor’s office, most of us feel that we are crossing into the domain of some manner of super being, an individual who has stared steadily into ...

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Global Warming And Nuclear Fallout: The Foundational Geochemistry Of Saruhashi Katsuko

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 6, 2021

On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in the deserts of Alamogordo, New Mexico. At the time, it was not clear what might...

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Impossible Creatures, And How To Make Them: The Topological Legacy of Mathematician Mary Ellen Rudin

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 23, 2021

There’s a lot to like about plain old, everyday space. No matter where you are, there’s always a way to get to where you need to go, and you can always f...

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48 Years Ago Today: Billie Jean King Defeated Bobby Riggs In Battle Of The Sexes

wyskSeptember 20, 2021

More than 50 million Americans tuned in to watch, making it the most viewed U.S. tennis match of all time. More importantly, King's victory made it a game-changer for women’s tennis....

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Sarah Stewart Johnson, Mars, And The Search For Life As We Don’t Know It

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 15, 2021

The Red Planet has not always been kind to those who have given their lives to its study. Before the rise of rover-based observation, Mars had a particul...

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How A Culture Is Born: The Groundbreaking Anthropology Of Ruth Benedict

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 1, 2021

Cultures are strange creatures. What you can do and say, who you can love and when, who you may kill and how, are all subject to the accretion over the c...

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