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Biplanes, Airships, Submarines: My Talk With Dr. Nina Baker About The Engineering Legacy Of Hilda Lyon

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 27, 2021

One of the great things about writing this column is the fact that, from time to time, I get to talk with remarkable people about other remarkable people. ...

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Our Endogenous Retroviruses, Ourselves: The Life And Legacy Of Dr. Anna Marie Skalka

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 13, 2021

In 1970, everybody knew, or believed they did, how the flow of genetic information in a cell works. The Central Dogma of genetics dictated that DNA is transcr...

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Through A Satellite’s Gaze, The Past: The Career Of Space Archaeologist Sarah Parcak

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 9, 2020

It is an axiom in business that the more mundane the job, the more grandiose the title. Executives seem to believe that we will feel more resigned to a l...

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Steering The Future Of Women In Science: The Institutional Wizardry Of Microbiologist Rita Colwell

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 2, 2020

One of the exciting and daunting things about doing science in the Twenty-First century is the sheer number of competencies it demands. It is no longer e...

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The Lady Of The Engine Room: Victoria Drummond, Britain’s First Woman Marine Engineer

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 18, 2020

It is August 25, 1940, and the Panamanian ship Bonita, sailing alone in war-torn waters with its cargo of clay bound for the United States, is suddenly attacke...

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Chronicler Of The Path Untread: The 19th Century Journeys Of Isabella Bird

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 12, 2020

As Isabella Bird, in her seventieth year and in the middle of her last great adventure, sat across from Sultan at Marrakesh, telling him tales of her adve...

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What You Should Know About Mary Shelley On Frankenstein Friday

wyskOctober 30, 2020

A celebration of the legacy of Frankenstein and an homage to its WYSKy creator, author Mary Shelley....

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One Woman Against The Black Death: The Saga Of Dr. Edith Pechey-Phipson And The Fight For Medical Women in India

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 21, 2020

In 1896, the city of Bombay recorded its first case of bubonic plague, a disease which would grow to claim ten million lives over the following decade as the g...

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Jeanne Baret: The Two Stories Of The World’s First Woman To Circumnavigate The Globe

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 14, 2020

Told one way, the story of Jeanne Baret is an essentially inspiring tale: a woman born a peasant, raised with the expectation of seeing nothing more in her lif...

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