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How Fossils Get That Way: Paleontologist Anna “Kay” Behrensmeyer’s Years Amidst Rock And Bone

Dale DeBakcsyJune 15, 2022

When it comes to bones, immortality is far from a sure thing. We generally think that the road from bone to fossil is a straight-forward and all but assu...

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Between The Children And Catastrophe, A Woman: Dr. Frances O. Kelsey’s Victory Over Thalidomide

Dale DeBakcsyJune 8, 2022

In September of 1960, the American pharmaceutical company Richardson-Merrell submitted their application to the FDA for the approval of Europe’s new wonder dru...

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Hilda Geiringer And The Curious Behavior Of Stressed Metals

Dale DeBakcsyJune 1, 2022

Beholding a bar of metal, it seems an object almost primal in its simplicity. Solid, reliable, the stuff of which cities are made. Gander beneath t...

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Putting Tools In More Girls’ Hands: NYC Nonprofit That Teaches Girls Construction Skills Launches Boston Chapter

wyskJune 1, 2022

Tradeswoman-Founded Tools & Tiaras Inc. Meets Growing Demand For Programming, Expands To Show Girls (Ages 6-17) In The Greater New England Area That "Jobs ...

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The Concerns Of The Earth, And Above: Mae Jemison’s Life In Medicine And Space Travel

Dale DeBakcsyApril 6, 2022

There is a bit of political wisdom we have lived with for half a century now, which says that spending money on space travel, while social problems still exist...

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Spectral Lines From A Dying Nation: The Molecular Spectrometry Of Hertha Sponer

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 2, 2021

It is hard to imagine a time and place outside of Charles Dickens’s Revolutionary France that more embodies the spirit of the Best of Times and Worst of Times ...

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A Doctor At Sky’s Edge: Susan Anderson And The Practice Of Medicine On America’s Last Frontier

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 17, 2021

Seventy miles west of Denver, in a small town nestled 8,574 feet above sea level there rests the town of Fraser. Today an enclave of 1,400 hearty souls it was...

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Queen of Scythes: The Protoindustrial Revolution Of Louisa Catharina Harkort

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 3, 2021

In the late 1750s and early 1760s, the Seven Years’ War, an intercontinental struggle that would largely determine the power structure of the world for the nex...

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Janaki Ammal And The Fight For India’s Botanical Future

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 28, 2021

Caste. Race. Gender. These were the three categories that, in early twentieth century Madras, combined to determine the boundaries of an individual’s potent...

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Brains In Love And Brains Alone: The Social Neuroscience Of Stephanie Cacioppo

Letting Loose The Dogs of Chaos: Mary Lucy Cartwright And Her Pioneering Portrayals Of Functions Behaving Badly

To Battle, And Battle, And Battle: The Many Struggles Of American Red Cross Founder Clara Barton

Genius Overcome: The Destruction of Catherine de Parthenay

How Fossils Get That Way: Paleontologist Anna “Kay” Behrensmeyer’s Years Amidst Rock And Bone

Between The Children And Catastrophe, A Woman: Dr. Frances O. Kelsey’s Victory Over Thalidomide

Hilda Geiringer And The Curious Behavior Of Stressed Metals

Putting Tools In More Girls’ Hands: NYC Nonprofit That Teaches Girls Construction Skills Launches Boston Chapter

The Concerns Of The Earth, And Above: Mae Jemison’s Life In Medicine And Space Travel

Spectral Lines From A Dying Nation: The Molecular Spectrometry Of Hertha Sponer

A Doctor At Sky’s Edge: Susan Anderson And The Practice Of Medicine On America’s Last Frontier

Queen of Scythes: The Protoindustrial Revolution Of Louisa Catharina Harkort

Janaki Ammal And The Fight For India’s Botanical Future