Biology
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Science Avatars
Last week on Twitter, I put feelers out asking if anyone would be interested if I did a sale on…
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Milk and Blood: Icie Macy Hoobler and the Science of Infant-Mother Nutrition. (Women in Science 77).
A young mother of the early twentieth century who couldn’t or didn’t want to breast feed was a creature entirely…
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Octopuses at Work and Play: Jennifer Mather and Cephalopod Cognition. (Women in Science 76)
On paper, the octopus looks like a mythical beast we made up by combining all of the most outlandish bits…
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Monarch of Crystallography: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin and the Structure of Large Molecules. (Women in Science 73)
Two scientists. Two crystallographers. Both successful, but one died young after her most significant discovery was snatched from her, while…
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It’s #safetyfirst, #sexysecond
What I find most troubling* about this #madscientist #art is the insufficient personal protection equipment (PPE). If ol’ girl…
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Women in Science: The Card Game. Gameplay Review!
Creating a research lab is tough. You’ve got to recruit people of complementary talents, give them the resources to be…
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Aquaria on the Cheap
This article originally ran on my (now semi-defunct) aquarium blog, but it’s good information if you want to try setting…
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Fighting Penicillin’s Monster: Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Brown. (Women in Science 68)
Who (besides, obviously, bacteria) doesn’t love penicillin? It’s on everybody’s shortlist of the most important things we’ve discovered to improve…
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