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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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Mother-Daughter Duo Spotlight Black Women Who Made History With Powerful Photography Project

wyskFebruary 19, 2019

“Who was the first girl chemist?” When a then 7-year-old Georgia asked this question in 2017, her mother, Shauna, a photographer and homeschooler, seized the o...

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Must See Documentary Features Chefs You Should Know Leading “Kitchen Culture” Revolution [Trailer]

wyskFebruary 19, 2019

Anne-Sophie Pic, Angela Hartnett, Anita Lo, Amanda Cohen, Victoria Blamey, Suzanne Barr, Charlotte Langley, Ivy Knight (pictured above from left to right). Amo...

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More Than A Prize Unwon: The Manifold Legacies Of Rosalind Franklin

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 6, 2019

When Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) succumbed to cancer at the age of thirty-seven, she left behind monumental contributions to three different fields of scienc...

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‘Dope Queens of Black History’: Twin Sisters Recreate Images Of Trailblazing Women

wyskFebruary 4, 2019

“We don’t expect to get rich or famous; we just want to teach the world about some Dope Queens of Black History!”...

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Lucy Evelyn Cheesman, Pioneer Entomologist of the Pacific Islands

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 30, 2019

Dangling over the edge of a cliffside, her hands gripping a couple clumps of bracken embedded in the rock for dear life, Lucy Evelyn Cheesman (1881-1969) might...

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