Love And Butterflies: The Adventures Of Victorian Lepidopterist Margaret Fountaine
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...
Women in Science
Midwife To A Nation: Madame du Coudray And The King’s Commission To Professionalize Childbirth
Midwife. Few words in the history of western medicine can evoke sudden and unequivocal academic tribal sentiment as that single term. To one school...
Casualty Of Genius: The Sacrifice Of Mileva Maric-Einstein
"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...
Let It STEM, Let It STEM, Let It STEM: A Holiday Guide To 2019’s Great Women In Science Books
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 ...
From Wartime Radar To W-Bosons: The Experimental Physics Of Joan Freeman
In 1983, one of the great pillars of modern physics was cemented in place when CERN announced the discovery of a group of particles that stood at the center of...
The Path Of Most Resistance: Sophia Jex-Blake And The Fight For Women’s Medical Education
She had founded first England and then Scotland's first medical school for women, and been instrumental in the passing of the Medical Act that allowed women to...
The Professor And The Frogs: The Ecology And Herpetology Of Margaret Stewart
Amphibians today are experiencing a population crisis of unprecedented scale. Frogs are going extinct, according to the most conservative estimates, at t...
Food’s Bright Future: Leah Garcés And The Long Struggle To Replace Factory Farming
Vegans and meat consumers do not typically enter into common cause. To the meat eater, vegans are bleeding heart, elitist scolds, and to the vegan, meat consu...
Siblings In Cognition: Diana Reiss And The Study Of The Dolphin Mind
One of the most persistently amazing things about modern science has been its ability to cut humanity loose from the limitations of our immediate caveperson co...