Trailblazers - Women You Should Know®

Meet Caroline Herschel (1750-1848): History’s First Professional Woman Astronomer

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 15, 2019

In 2092, if there are still humans on our planet to look and to see, a comet will appear in the night sky that has not been viewed since 1939, and will not be s...

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10 R.eally B.adass G.ifts… Inspired By The Notorious RBG, Ruth Bader Ginsburg

wyskMarch 15, 2019

Through her pioneering accomplishments and historic achievements, as well as her fearless words, dissents and actions, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Gin...

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Dr. Cardy Raper And The Four Decade Search For The Key To Mushroom Sex

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 13, 2019

Let's do a thought experiment. Imagine that human reproduction worked this way: at a certain age you are blindfolded and led to a massive field with a hu...

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Thanks To Juliette Gordon Low The First-Ever Girl Scouts Meeting In The U.S. Happened Today In 1912

wyskMarch 12, 2019

“I’ve got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America, and all the world, and we’re going to start it tonight!”...

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Downloadable STEM Role Models Posters Inspire Global Frenzy, Released In 7 Additional Languages

wyskMarch 8, 2019

Last month we featured a downloadable set of eight stunning and brilliantly inspiring STEM Role Models posters commissioned by Nevertheless podcast, and illust...

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The Many Triumphs And Long Fall Of Nuclear Physicist Harriet Brooks (1876-1933)

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 6, 2019

Reading the life of Harriet Brooks (1876-1933) is like watching the gradual, inevitable unfolding of a horror movie. There's that same idyllic, promising begin...

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Theano of Croton And The Pythagorean Women Of Ancient Greece

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 27, 2019

2500 years ago, in a small but soon to be revered town in Southern Italy, a group of men and women gathered, united by the proposition that the universe is, at...

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12-Year-Old Artist and Author Lends Her Talent To Paint Portrait Of A Woman Everyone Should Know

wyskFebruary 26, 2019

Trisha Rao has been painting since the age of 2, and has always loved to express herself through art and poetry. Now 12, she’s created over 300 acrylic paintin...

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Julia Robinson And The Cracking Of Hilbert’s 10th Problem

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 20, 2019

For mathematicians, the only thing more exciting than proving a theorem is proving that it can never be proven. These anti-proofs, if you will, stand fir...

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