History

From The Underground Railroad In Syracuse To A Historic Practice In Santo Domingo: The Journey Of Dr. Sarah Loguen Fraser

Dale DeBakcsyJune 25, 2020

In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first American woman to earn a Medical Degree, and within half a century seven thousand American women had followed her...

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A Healer At The Fringe Of Civilization: The Siberian Odyssey Of Doctor Anna Bek

Dale DeBakcsyJune 18, 2020

It is the early 1870s and we are heading into the mining town of Gornyi Zerentui, located in the mountainous Transbaikal region on the distant Siberian fringe ...

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Emma Darwin And The Invisible Heroism Of The Scientific Caretaker

Dale DeBakcsyJune 10, 2020

The road leading to the creation and publication of The Origin of the Species was one of the most tortuous and personally costly in the history of science.&nbs...

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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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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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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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