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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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Classical Science’s Final Breath: Hypatia Of Alexandria

Dale DeBakcsyJune 13, 2018

By 400 CE, Alexandria was a nervous husk dancing the edge of zealous self-annihilation. For centuries the intellectual capital of the world, boasting the large...

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The Life Of Laura Bassi (1711-1778), The World’s First Female Full Professor Of Science

Dale DeBakcsyJune 6, 2018

It's April of 1732, and the hot ticket in Bologna is not an opera, a play, or a beheading, but rather that most mundane of things: a lengthy thesis defense, in ...

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Nobel Prize Recipient Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin And The Structure Of Large Molecules

Dale DeBakcsyMay 30, 2018

Two scientists. Two crystallographers. Both successful, but one died young after her most significant discovery was snatched from her, while the other lived...

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Lillian Moller Gilbreth “The First Lady Of Engineering” And The Founding Of Industrial Psychology

Dale DeBakcsyMay 24, 2018

There was nothing in the first 26 years of Lillian Moller's life which suggested she would some day come to be known as the First Lady of Engineering....

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Dr. Sara Josephine Baker (1873-1945) And The Fight For Child Hygiene

Dale DeBakcsyMay 23, 2018

How deep can hopelessness go? Is there a lower limit, a solid floor against which we can push and thrust ourselves back into some semblance of striving humanit...

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Clean Water, Breathable Air, And The Science Of Food: The Remarkable Legacy Of Ellen Swallow

Dale DeBakcsyMay 16, 2018

Every morning we wake up to a feast of assumptions. We assume that the place our sewage gets dumped is not the same place our drinking water comes from. We in...

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Nobel Laureate Tu Youyou, Malaria, And The Discovery Of Artemisinin

Dale DeBakcsyMay 9, 2018

In 1955, the World Health Organization had what, on the surface, seemed a splendid idea: Let's Get Rid of Malaria. Just four years before, the United States, a...

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Nobel Laureate Maria Goeppert-Mayer And The Creation Of Nuclear Shell Theory

Dale DeBakcsyMay 2, 2018

How does radioactive decay know when to stop? When Uranium-238 breaks up, it goes through twenty-two intermediate isotopes before finally coming to rest at Lea...

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