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New PBS Film Celebrates Betty White, Beloved Entertainer, Industry Pioneer, First Lady Of Television [TRAILER]

wyskJuly 30, 2018

If you love this woman as much as we do, then clear your calendars for Tuesday, August 21 when BETTY WHITE: FIRST LADY OF TELEVISION is set to premiere on PBS. ...

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The Voice from the Silent Spring: Marine Biologist, Author, and Conservationist Rachel Carson

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 25, 2018

“Hunger, hunger, are you listening, To the words from Rachel’s pen? Words which taken at face value, Place lives of birds ‘bove those of men..” - W.E. McC...

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Icie Macy Hoobler (1892-1984) And The Science of Infant-Mother Nutrition

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 23, 2018

A young mother of the early twentieth century who couldn't or didn't want to breastfeed was a creature entirely at the hands of bumbling chance. Doctors of the ...

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Apes With Words: How Beatrix Gardner, Francine Patterson, and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Pioneered Primate Language Studies

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 18, 2018

It's a regular Georgia afternoon in the late 1970s, and two chimpanzees, named Sherman and Austin, are about to do something phenomenal. They are separated i...

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100 Days of Awe-inspiring Women Illustrated

wyskJuly 11, 2018

When our friend, Ret. Captain Brenda Berkman, a pioneer in the first class of women FDNY firefighters (1982), shared an illustration that artist Ashly Jernigan ...

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Generations: The Story of Women in Neutrino Research

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 11, 2018

The most powerful force in the study of physics is not gravity or electromagnetism. It is not love, or courage. It is accounting. "But that doesn't qui...

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Dorothy Wrinch And The Founding Of Mathematical Biochemistry

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 6, 2018

By attempting everything, Dorothy Wrinch ended up accomplishing nothing. For a long half century, this was the standard final verdict on the life and work of...

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Parity Can Be Deceiving: The Razor-Sharp Physics of Chien-Shiung Wu

Dale DeBakcsyJune 27, 2018

How does a neutrino sign its paycheck? Sometimes it’s the absurd questions that break physics from its well-worn grooves and force it to elaborate fantastic ...

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115 Years Ago Today Marie Sklodowska Curie Made History

wyskJune 25, 2018

"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy." - Marie Sk?odowska Curie...

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