Biology
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Heritage and Challah
This past weekend was Rosh Hashana, which is the Jewish new year. Which is all well and good, but why…
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Bringing Teleology Back: Agnes Arber’s Neo-Aristotelian Plant Morphology (Women in Science 46)
Evolution is great. As an explanatory idea, as a process governing biology, from just about any aspect you care to…
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Of Fae and Fungi
“And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green.” –A Midsummer Night’s Dream A few weeks…
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Yet another high profile paper about yet another epigenome that says the same thing, yet again.
A recent study developed a new way of probing the genome for “accessible” sites, and found the same things that…
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Guns N Taxonomy: The Vertebrate Biology of Annie Alexander (Women in Science 44)
As a rule, our favorite flavors of scientist are the theoretical and experimental – we tend to like them either…
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Mad Art Cast: Lady Viagra Quickie
Recently, something the media is calling “Viagra for women” was in the news, and is on it’s way to being…
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Gotta Formalin ’em All: The Marine Biology of Eugenie Clark, The Shark Lady. (Women in Science 42)
To the uninitiated, there seems a dizzying amount of carnage wrapped up in advancing biological knowledge. Every scrap of information…
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Lymph, There It Is: Florence Sabin, Pioneer Woman of Medical Research (Women in Science 39)
For women in science, posterity has three fates in store. Some, like Marie Curie or Rosalyn Yalow, are recognized in…
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