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Biology
A Voice from the Silent Spring: The Life and Ecology of Rachel Carson
“Hunger, hunger, are you listening, To the words from Rachel’s pen? Words which taken at face value, Place lives of…
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Comic
Jesus’s Twin Sister, Brains Over Bust, And Serial Killer Lovers: An Indie Comic Round Up!
Seattle’s Emerald City Comic Con (ECCC) might be the last major comic book convention that is still actually and primarily…
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Comic
Understanding the Lost Children: The Life and Science of Anna Freud
Humans have a profound genius for generating terrible ideas. Slavery. Theocratic government. But there is one particular idea we hung…
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Comic
Ms. Marvel #2: Heina Dadabhoy and I Talk Islam in Comics, and the Demise of the Spinebreaker.
Yesterday, Marvel released the second issue of Ms. Marvel, a series featuring the trials and tribulations of Kamala Khan, a…
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Biology
Carolynn L Smith and the Astounding Richness of Animal Communication
You’re a rooster who’s down on his luck. Your comb is a bit shabby, your fighting skills aren’t up to…
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Film
From Sailor Mercury to Twilight Sparkle: The Top Nine Cartoon Girl Scientists
For any kid born after 1970, cartoons were where we sought our future. They taught us how ideals tumbled against…
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Biology
Clean Water, Breathable Air, and the Science of Food: The Legacy of Ellen Swallow
Every morning we wake up to a feast of assumptions. We assume that the place our sewage gets dumped is…
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Biology
Dr. Tania Singer and the Neuroscience of Empathy
The year is 1990 and a man is sitting across from a monkey. Between them is an object that will,…
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