Dale DeBakcsy
It Takes a Forest to Grow a Tree: The Revolutionary Forest Ecology of Suzanne Simard.
Four short decades ago, the prevailing wisdom among forestry officials was the “Free To Grow” model by which, when a forest was clear cut...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Sarah Stewart Johnson, Mars, and the Search for Life as We Don’t Know It.
The Red Planet has not always been kind to those who have given their lives to its study. Before the rise of rover-based observation,...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
The Life Stories of Birds: How Margaret Morse Nice Ended Ornithology’s Long List Era.
When you headed out into the field as a 19th century ornithologist, you had one of two things in mind as to what constituted your...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Our Endogenous Retroviruses, Ourselves: The Life and Legacy of Anna Marie Skalka
In 1970, everybody knew, or believed they did, how the flow of genetic information in a cell works. The Central Dogma of genetics...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Jeanne Baret: The Two Stories of the World’s First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe.
Told one way, the story of Jeanne Baret is an essentially inspiring tale: a woman born a peasant, raised with the expectation of seeing...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Janaki Ammal And the Fight for India’s Botanical Future.
Caste. Race. Gender. These were the three categories that, in early twentieth century Madras, combined to determine the boundaries of...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Return to Nature: Stella Brewer and the Science Of Chimpanzee Rehabilitation.
Our interactions with our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, the chimpanzees, have rarely been entirely honorable. We dress them up...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Between the Children and Catastrophe, A Woman: Frances O. Kelsey’s Victory Over Thalidomide.
In September of 1960, the American pharmaceutical company Richardson-Merrell submitted their application to the FDA for the approval of...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Generations: The Neuroscience Dynasty of Cécile and Marthe Vogt
“There was a tunnel, and at the end a beautiful light, and I heard the voices of my family calling to me.” For centuries this, the...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Building a Kingdom in the Brain’s Unfashionable District: Brenda Milner’s Century of Neuropsychology
There are scales and metrics you use to evaluate the lives of most neuropsychologists, and then there are those you have to invent in...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Neuroembryology in Wartime: Rita Levi-Montalcini and the Discovery of Nerve Growth Factor
It is 1942, and Allied bombs are raking the city of Turin, wreaking a thudding vengeance for Il Duce’s cynical alliance with Nazi Germany....
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Virginia Johnson and the Development of Effective Sex Therapy.
In 1955, if you were a man who suffered from premature ejaculation, or a woman who had never known an orgasm, your choices were few and...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 26, 2023
Lymph, There it is: Florence Sabin, Pioneer Woman of Medical Research
For women in science, posterity has three fates in store. Some, like Marie Curie or Rosalyn Yalow, are recognised in their time and...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 26, 2023
Milk and Blood: Icie Macy Hoobler and the Science of Infant-Mother Nutrition
A young mother of the early twentieth century who could not or did not want to breast feed was a creature entirely at the hands of...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 26, 2023
Blue Babies with Crossword Puzzle Hearts: The Paediatric Cardiology of Helen Taussig
It is sometime in the 1930s, and you are walking into a ward full of crouching children with blue-tinted lips. Something is wrong with...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
The Secret Life of Hormones: Rosalyn Yalow and the Discovery Of Radioimmunoassaying
There is an unsung immensity in the craft of Measuring Things Better. Within our sparkling cleverness for developing better and better...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Ancient Secrets, Modern Methods: Nobel Laureate Tu Youyou, Malaria, and the Discovery of Artemisinin
In 1955, the World Health Organization had what, on the surface, seemed a splendid idea: Let’s Get Rid of Malaria. Just four years...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
One Doctor Against Nuclear War: Helen Caldicott and the Physicians for Social Responsibility
It might be difficult to believe if you were born within the last three decades, but there was once a time when America was led by a...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Isabel Morgan, Polio, and the High Cost of Marriage
Polio, unique among humanity’s eradicated diseases, carries with it a visual familiarity that has insistently lingered far beyond its...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Fearless Symmetry: Dorothy Wrinch and the Founding of Mathematical Biochemistry
By attempting everything, Dorothy Wrinch ended up accomplishing nothing. For half a century, this was the standard final verdict on the...
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