Women in Science

Book Review: Diving Once More Into the Cosmic Ocean… Ann Druyan’s ‘Cosmos: Possible Worlds’

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 19, 2020

In 1980, PBS broadcast a series that defined for a generation what Science Communication could and must be. Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, co-written by Carl...

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Film Review: ‘The Woman Who Loves Giraffes’, The Story Of Pioneer Wildlife Researcher Anne Innis Dagg

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 5, 2020

When Anne Innis headed into the Transvaal in 1956, there were no rules or set procedures for how to observe animal behavior in the wild, let alone how to do so...

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Film Trailer: Rosamund Pike Stars As Marie Sklodowska Curie In Radioactive

wyskFebruary 4, 2020

This Women's History Month, Academy Award nominated director Marjane Satrapi (Best Animated Feature Film of the Year - Persepolis, 2007) brings the story of Ma...

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Preparing For An Unknown Tomorrow: Astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan And The Saving Of The Hubble Space Telescope

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 29, 2020

This day, let us speak of a new type of hero, one whose life story is not told as a sum of new products invented and foisted upon an already choked world, but ...

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Ice, Ice Lady: The Seven Expeditions Of Arctic Explorer Louise Arner Boyd

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 22, 2020

If the story of Louise Arner Boyd (1887-1972) teaches us anything, it is that how you start a journey need not determine how you end it. Her first expedition ...

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Love And Butterflies: The Adventures Of Victorian Lepidopterist Margaret Fountaine

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 15, 2020

For a young English woman of respectable lineage, the 19th century offered a clear, well delineated path from birth to death, full of tradition and routine and...

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Midwife To A Nation: Madame du Coudray And The King’s Commission To Professionalize Childbirth

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 8, 2020

Midwife. Few words in the history of western medicine can evoke sudden and unequivocal academic tribal sentiment as that single term. To one school...

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Casualty Of Genius: The Sacrifice Of Mileva Maric-Einstein

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 19, 2019

"I need my wife. She resolves all of my mathematical problems." – Albert EinsteinContent Note: By the end of this article, you are not going to like Albert...

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Let It STEM, Let It STEM, Let It STEM: A Holiday Guide To 2019’s Great Women In Science Books

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 11, 2019

2019 has been an incredible year for books about the history of women in STEM. A short two decades ago, it would have been riches beyond telling to have ...

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