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Harriet Boyd Hawes, From Archaeologist to War Nurse to Economic Activist

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 9, 2019

Harriet Boyd Hawes was cursed from birth with an overabundance of Purpose. She was ever in search of a Problem to solve, and possessed both the ability t...

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Mildred Cohn And Her Pioneering Work In Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 2, 2019

ATP is the stuff of life. Without it, cell communication shuts down, muscles freeze, and anything requiring ready energy (which is to say, darn near everything...

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The Last of the Women Physicians: Dorothea Leporin Erxleben (1715-1762)

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 5, 2018

Prior to the Eighteenth Century, the answer to the question, "Who was allowed to practice medicine?" was relatively simple: Damn near anybody. While those who ...

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Speaking Culture to Psychoanalysis: The Karen Horney Gender Revolution

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 21, 2018

How much of womanhood is a matter of biology, and how much one of culture? Prior to 1929, Freudian psychoanalysis had closed rank determinedly around a biologi...

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Traveling ‘Over The River And Through The Wood’ This Thanksgiving? You Should Know Lydia Maria Child

wyskNovember 21, 2018

She not only authored this famed line for a Thanksgiving Day poem (1844), she was a tireless crusader for Native Americans, slaves, and women....

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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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Helen Keller And Her ‘Miracle Worker’ Teacher Anne Sullivan

wyskOctober 5, 2018

"Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained." ...

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Mary Somerville: Savior of British Mathematics

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 3, 2018

In the 1750s, when France was foundering scientifically in the Cartesian shallows, it took Emilie du Châtelet’s French translation of Newton’s Principia to rein...

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