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The Curve Who Became a Witch: The Mathematics of Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799)

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 8, 2018

If any century would have favorably understood the manic blend of child shaming and twisted pride that is the typical Toddlers and Tiaras pageant parent, it was...

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The Amazing Life Of Dr. Margaret Chung, The First American-Born Chinese Woman Physician and Surgeon

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 1, 2018

Her mother was raised in a brothel, and her "son" was Ronald Reagan. Take any section of Dr. Margaret Chung's (1889-1959) life, and lay it against any other,...

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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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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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Birute Galdikas And The Complicated Simplicity Of The Bornean Orangutan

Dale DeBakcsyJune 20, 2018

By 1971, when a 24 year old anthropology student by the name of Birute Galdikas set foot in the wilds of Borneo to study the largely unknown behavior and social...

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