Dale DeBakcsy
Lead, TNT, and Rayon: Alice Hamilton's Battle Against Industrial Poisons.
The lack of regulation in American industry during the early Twentieth Century is the stuff of horrific legend - from the grotesqueries...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Feb 19
Taking the Wheel: Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier, and the CRISPR-Cas9 Revolution in Gene Editing.
Over the course of the last two decades, humanity has taken its first quiet steps from being the blind victims of genetic-molecular...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Feb 14
Brains In Love and Brains Alone: The Social Neuroscience of Stephanie Cacioppo
One would think that there is no aspect of the brain’s multitudinous biochemical majesty that lies outside of the interest of...
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Feb 6
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...
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Jan 29
From the Underground Railroad to Santo Domingo: The Doctor’s Journey of Sarah Loguen Fraser
In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States; within half a century 7,000 American...
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Jan 28
From Quaker Crystallographer to World War Pacifist: The Journey of Kathleen Lonsdale
The list of Quaker women who made fundamental contributions to the science of crystallography while in prison is a short one. In fact,...
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Jan 26
Death and Time: The Pioneering Biostratigraphy of Julia Anna Gardner.
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...
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Jan 25
Anne Innis Dagg, Giraffe, and the Winding Road of the Citizen Scientist.
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jan 21
Naval Engineer Raye Montague and the Tale of the World’s First Computer-Designed Naval Vessel.
In March 1971, a computer science whiz with an unlikely background was given six months to complete a seemingly impossible project for...
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Jan 20
Marie-Anne Lavoisier and the Birth of Modern Chemistry.
It is early August in the year 1794, and jails, choked with the enemies of Maximilien Robespierre and his Committee for Public Safety,...
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Jan 16
The Tragedy of Dian Fossey
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: ...
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Jan 15
Sofia Kovalevskaya: Love Makes all the Partial Difference
Everybody needs love, but for some the striving after it so dominates their every action and decision that it becomes impossible to ever...
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Jan 7
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jan 3
Caged By War: The Abbreviated Life of Aeronautical Engineer and Test Pilot Countess Melitta von Stauffenberg
The last decade of Countess Melitta von Stauffenberg's life was ringed by impossible decisions, choices that you and I will never...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jan 1
Transformations: Lynn Conway and the VLSI Revolution in Microchip Design.
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Dec 26, 2023
Mary Somerville: British Mathematical Prometheus
In the 1750s, when France was foundering scientifically in the Cartesian shallows, it took Émilie du Châtelet’s French translation of...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Dec 24, 2023
To Battle, and Battle, and Battle: The Many Struggles of American Red Cross Founder Clara Barton.
Clara Barton resided on this planet for nine decades, and spent roughly seven of those locked in institutional struggles that would have...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Dec 24, 2023
Hortense Powdermaker and the Anthropology of Modern Life
When you picture an anthropologist, the first thing that comes to mind is probably a person in khakis sitting at the edge of a tribal...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Dec 19, 2023
Casualty of Genius: The Sacrifice of Mileva Marić-Einstein.
Content Note: By the end of this article, you are not going to like Albert Einstein much. If this is a problem for you, if part of your...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Dec 13, 2023
Sex, Cards and Calculus: A Day with Émilie du Châtelet
In popular mythology, the 1687 publication of Newton’s Principia was the culminating moment when one human told the world how the...
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