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“Maria by Callas”… New Documentary On The Legendary Opera Singer Told Her Own Words

wyskNovember 8, 2018

Time magazine called her "a woman for whom the term prima donna could have been invented" and the "undisputed queen of the world’s opera". This weekend, the lif...

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Lady Mary Montagu and Europe’s First Tool Against Smallpox

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 7, 2018

In the Seventeenth Century, smallpox ravaged Europe with a persistent ferocity beyond reckoning. At its height, it killed 400,000 Europeans a year, in a manner...

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You Don’t Know What You’ve Got ‘Til It’s Gone… Why We Need To Support Women You Should Know Now

Guest ContributorNovember 1, 2018

By Lori Day - If you’re like me and like most people, sometimes you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone. Joni Mitchell turned that sentiment into a song i...

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Ada Lovelace And The Curious Practice Of Programming For Non-Existent Computers

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 1, 2018

What did Ada Lovelace do? She is one of the most fetishized scientists today - at conventions when I'm taking sketch commissions she ranks just behind Tesla ...

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“The Women’s Movement Inspired Me” 92-Year-Old Karline Tierney On Her Decades Long Role As A Women’s Rights Activist

Guest ContributorOctober 25, 2018

By Karline Tierney - I was born in Auburn, New York, in 1926. My parents, Jane and Karl Koenen, already had a daughter and assumed I would be a boy, and I’d...

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Ruby Payne-Scott, The World’s First Woman Radio Astronomer

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 24, 2018

In March of 1944, a physicist and radar specialist named Ruby Payne-Scott aimed her equipment at the sky and became the world's first woman radio astronomer. ...

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Bringing Teleology Back: Agnes Arber’s Neo-Aristotelian Plant Morphology

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 17, 2018

Evolution is great. As an explanatory idea, as a process governing biology, from just about any aspect you care to consider it, evolution is a magnificent thin...

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Lynn Conway and the VLSI Revolution in Microchip Design

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 10, 2018

Last week my stepfather, a retired electrical engineer, passed away at the age of 89, and in the boxes and boxes of papers he had kept as the signifiers of his ...

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Yazidi Survivor Nadia Murad, Subject Of ‘On Her Shoulders’ Documentary, Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

wyskOctober 5, 2018

Today it was announced that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018 has been awarded to two individuals for their respective efforts "to end the use of sexual violence a...

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