Janaki Ammal And The Fight For India’s Botanical Future
Caste. Race. Gender. These were the three categories that, in early twentieth century Madras, combined to determine the boundaries of an individual’s potent...
History
Global Warming And Nuclear Fallout: The Foundational Geochemistry Of Saruhashi Katsuko
On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in the deserts of Alamogordo, New Mexico. At the time, it was not clear what might...
Impossible Creatures, And How To Make Them: The Topological Legacy of Mathematician Mary Ellen Rudin
There’s a lot to like about plain old, everyday space. No matter where you are, there’s always a way to get to where you need to go, and you can always f...
How A Culture Is Born: The Groundbreaking Anthropology Of Ruth Benedict
Cultures are strange creatures. What you can do and say, who you can love and when, who you may kill and how, are all subject to the accretion over the c...
Varieties: The Life And Mathematics Of Hanna Neumann
Of all the realms of mathematics, there are few where more people feel more at home than in the safe harbors of algebra. Since the age of eight, we have ...
Death And Time: The Pioneering Biostratigraphy Of Julia Anna Gardner
On a lonely stretch of Florida swamp road, in the year 1920, a model T Ford with no headlights and two hastily replaced tires is trying to make its way through...
Master Of Matrices: Olga Taussky-Todd And How One Of Math’s Coolest Objects Refound Its Groove
In high school, matrices don’t get anything near a fair shake. In case it’s been a while, matrices were those rectangular grids of numbers that look some...
Women In Science New Book Release Roundup 2021
There was a time when those of us in the Women In Science (WIS) book-verse considered it a banner year when TWO new major releases featuring a prominent woman ...
Lady Of Iron: The Life Of Victorian Industrialist Lady Charlotte Guest
There was a time, during the Golden Age of Railroads, when the name of the small Welsh town of Dowlais was stamped on iron rails that ran the length of the dev...