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Book Review: Volcanologist Jess Phoenix’s ‘Ms. Adventure: My Wild Explorations in Science, Lava, and Life’

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 31, 2021

Science communication is all too often a matter of reporting end states. Scientist X has discovered Thing Y, and we should be happy/anxious/enraged about...

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Women Making Bold Moves: Take Your Seat At Our Table For A Night Of Learning, Empowerment, And Fun

wyskMarch 26, 2021

In an empowering close to Women’s History Month 2021, Women You Should Know and Poker Divas are inviting women everywhere to take their seats at our table for ...

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Lexie Phillips Makes History As Jack Daniel’s First Woman Assistant Distiller

wyskMarch 19, 2021

Jack Daniel's, the first registered distillery in the United States (circa 1866), has named Lexie Phillips Assistant Distiller, making her the first woman to s...

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Ivory And Bone: Agatha Christie And Her Three Decades Of Archaeology

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 17, 2021

In a tent in Iraq, an Englishwoman attempts to sleep as mice crawl over her body and cockroaches look on from the walls. She is exhausted, having divided...

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Artist Cynthia Young Paints Courageous “Women Who Have Guided Us On Our Path” In New Series

wyskMarch 10, 2021

Cynthia Young is a New Mexico based oil painter. In her latest, oh-so-WYSKy series - "Women Who Have Guided Us On Our Path" - she honors inspiring women who ha...

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From The Plumage Of Birds To The Classification Of The Natural Kingdom: The Life Of Ornithologist Graceanna Lewis

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 3, 2021

In the mid 19th century, American biological science was tentatively feeling its way forward along a half dozen different and contradictory directions as it ga...

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Chief Pamela Smith Is Now The First Black Woman To Lead 230-Year-Old U.S. Park Police

wyskFebruary 26, 2021

Yesterday, the National Park Service announced Pamela Smith has been named the new Chief of the United States Park Police (USPP), the nation’s oldest federal l...

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History-Making Ophthalmologist Dr. Patricia Bath Could Be First Black Woman Inducted Into National Inventors Hall Of Fame

wyskFebruary 23, 2021

Dr. Patricia Bath (1942-2019) lived a life without limits. She was the first Black American to complete an Ophthalmology residency at New Y...

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Naval Engineer Raye Montague And The Tale Of The World’s First Computer-Designed Naval Vessel

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 17, 2021

In March 1971, a computer science whiz with an unlikely background was given six months to complete a seemingly impossible project for the United States Navy: ...

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