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The years of the Second World War gifted to American feminism one of its most enduring icons in the form of Rosie the Riveter.  She was...

It is a well-known fact of humanity that the chances of a group of people electing to do something decent and necessary is inversely...

It is a long standing saying* that the pantheon of primatology is essentially the Justice League of America, with Jane Goodall as...

In terms of cell count, ninety percent of you isn't you at all.  Bacteria, though by mass they only make up about two percent of a human...

Pondering the Enlightenment, one's thoughts tend to turn Frenchwards.  The verbal barbs of Voltaire, the neuroses of Rousseau, the...

The lack of regulation in American industry during the early Twentieth Century is the stuff of horrific legend - from the grotesqueries...

Over the course of the last two decades, humanity has taken its first quiet steps from being the blind victims of genetic-molecular...

One would think that there is no aspect of the brain’s multitudinous biochemical majesty that lies outside of the interest of...

Amphibians today are experiencing a population crisis of unprecedented scale.  Frogs are going extinct, according to the most...

In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States; within half a century 7,000 American...

The list of Quaker women who made fundamental contributions to the science of crystallography while in prison is a short one.  In fact,...

On a lonely stretch of Florida swamp road, in the year 1920, a model T Ford with no headlights and two hastily replaced tires is trying...

Before Jane and Dian, Biruté and Jeanne, there was Anne. In 1957 Anne Innis (b. 1933) became the first woman to attempt a solo animal...

In March 1971, a computer science whiz with an unlikely background was given six months to complete a seemingly impossible project for...

It is early August in the year 1794, and jails, choked with the enemies of Maximilien Robespierre and his Committee for Public Safety,...

There are people to whom it is given to wait alone on humanity's dark edge and stand against all the worst of our collective impulses: ...

Everybody needs love, but for some the striving after it so dominates their every action and decision that it becomes impossible to ever...

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...

The last decade of Countess Melitta von Stauffenberg's life was ringed by impossible decisions, choices that you and I will never...

Last week my stepfather, a retired electrical engineer, passed away at the age of 89, and in the boxes and boxes of papers he had kept as...