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The Two Montessoris: The Rise And Fall And Rebirth Of An Educational Revolution

Dale DeBakcsyApril 18, 2019

Had Maria Montessori died in 1913 at age 43, at the height of her fame and insight, this would be a pretty straightforward article about somebody who saw a pro...

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Dame Daphne Sheldrick And The Half Century Struggle To Save The Elephants Of Kenya

Dale DeBakcsyApril 10, 2019

A mother elephant staggers forward, arrows protruding from her flank and legs, poison coursing through her blood that is attacking her muscles and making every...

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Gone, Fission: How Lise Meitner Was Written Out Of The Nuclear Age

Dale DeBakcsyApril 3, 2019

To fully appreciate Lise Meitner, you have to first forget everything you learned about the atom in high school. Forget that the nucleus is made up of ne...

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Leona Marshall Libby And The American Atomic Bomb

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 27, 2019

Leona Woods (1919-1986) was only 23 years old, fresh from wrapping up her PhD work in spectroscopy in the basement of the University of Chicago's Eckhart Hall,...

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Guns N Taxonomy: The Vertebrate Biology Of Annie Alexander

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 20, 2019

As a rule, our favorite flavors of scientist are the theoretical and experimental – we tend to like them either sitting in a chair creating beautiful abstracti...

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Meet Caroline Herschel (1750-1848): History’s First Professional Woman Astronomer

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 15, 2019

In 2092, if there are still humans on our planet to look and to see, a comet will appear in the night sky that has not been viewed since 1939, and will not be s...

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Dr. Cardy Raper And The Four Decade Search For The Key To Mushroom Sex

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 13, 2019

Let's do a thought experiment. Imagine that human reproduction worked this way: at a certain age you are blindfolded and led to a massive field with a hu...

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The Many Triumphs And Long Fall Of Nuclear Physicist Harriet Brooks (1876-1933)

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 6, 2019

Reading the life of Harriet Brooks (1876-1933) is like watching the gradual, inevitable unfolding of a horror movie. There's that same idyllic, promising begin...

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Theano of Croton And The Pythagorean Women Of Ancient Greece

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 27, 2019

2500 years ago, in a small but soon to be revered town in Southern Italy, a group of men and women gathered, united by the proposition that the universe is, at...

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