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Caged By War: The Abbreviated Life Of Aeronautical Engineer And Test Pilot Countess Melitta von Stauffenberg

Dale DeBakcsyMay 20, 2020

The last decade of Countess Melitta von Stauffenberg's life was ringed by impossible decisions, choices that you and I will never experience outside of a theor...

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Women In Science Puppet Theater Series, Episode 2: The Tale Of Cosmetic Chemist, Hazel Bishop

wyskMay 5, 2020

In this week's episode of our Women In Science Puppet Theater video series (click image above to watch), kids get to know cosmetic chemist, Hazel Bishop (1906-...

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From Nebraska’s Fields To The Ocean’s Floor: The Long Road Of Evolutionary Biologist Elma González

Dale DeBakcsyApril 29, 2020

There is a theory that curiosity originates in leisure, that only after one has taken care of the big important things like food and shelter can one spare the ...

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“The Legend of Joan of Arc” Puppet Film Is A Stay-At-Home Must Watch

wyskApril 28, 2020

"King of England, if you do not do these things, I am the commander of the military; and in whatever place I shall find your men in France, I will make them fl...

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Beneficial Mutation: Popular Women In Science Column Transforms Into ‘Puppet Special’ Video Series For Kids Learning At Home

wyskApril 24, 2020

The new pandemic world order, which is keeping us all at home, and kids learning at a distance, has inspired a beneficial mutation of one of our most popular W...

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Essential Risk: NYC Plumber Judaline Cassidy On Working In Building Trades During COVID-19 Crisis

wyskApril 16, 2020

Judaline Cassidy has been a plumber in NYC for more than two decades. She is a master of her craft, and a champion of equality in the still male-dominated cons...

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Killer of Cancer, Slayer of Viruses: The Many Medicines Of Nobel Prize Laureate Gertrude Elion

Dale DeBakcsyApril 15, 2020

Generally, our experience of a particular medicine is as a great faceless thing the name of which we don't know until we desperately need it, and the creation ...

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From Threepenny To Cabaret: Lotte Lenya, Loss, And The Spirit Of Weimar

Dale DeBakcsyApril 8, 2020

When Lotte Lenya stepped on stage for the opening night of Cabaret on November 20, 1966 for the first of what would be over one thousand performances as Fraule...

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Disease Fighters: Six Women Who Combated Humanity’s Deadliest Threats

Dale DeBakcsyApril 1, 2020

The last two months have seen heroism of unprecedented scale from the medical workers of the world, and among them a cavalcade of women nurses, doctors, emerge...

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