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Comic
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…
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Astronomy
Mary Somerville: Savior of British Mathematics.
In the 1750s, when France was foundering scientifically in the Cartesian shallows, it took Emilie du Châtelet’s French translation of…
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Zita the Spacegirl, Amelia Cole, And the Exciting Growth Of Girl Adventure Comics
Last month saw the much anticipated release of sequel volumes to two of indie comics’ most imaginative titles: Amelia Cole…
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A Web, Not a Road: The Anthropology of Margaret Mead
There is hardly a name in science more encrusted with bad faith generalizations and well-meaning but ahistorical hagiography than that…
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Biology
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…
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Maria Montessori: When Genius Devours Itself
There are some people who lack the splendid good sense of dying at the right time. Geniuses who flared with…
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Hedy LaMarr: The Movie Star Who Invented Bluetooth… in 1942.
A movie star. An avant-garde composer. A radio-controlled torpedo. Wi-Fi. One of the unfortunate truths about our web of modern…
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Parity Girl: The Experimental Physics of Chien-Shiung Wu
How does a neutrino sign its name? Sometimes it’s only the truly absurd questions that can break physics from its…
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