Biology
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Gerty Radnitz Cori: Glycogen to Glucose, and Back Again (Women in Science 37)
For a science teacher, perhaps the most dreaded question is “What Is Energy?” Sure, we have a standard answer –…
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Women in Science: The Next Generation. Featuring Lauren Uhde and Her Amazing Friends! (Women In Science 36)
For the past thirty-five episodes of Women in Science, the key word has been Bleak. We have seen a startling…
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Belle Benchley and the Creation of the Modern Zoo (Women in Science 34)
Think back to your last zoo trip. More likely than not, most of the larger animals were contained in open…
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The stars in our cells
A relatively recent study showed that transcription factors tend to hang out in specific areas of the nucleus, clustering like…
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Breaking the Shackles Procreative: Margaret Sanger and the Creation Of The Pill. (Women in Science 32)
In 1912, it was against the law to publish a book that contained descriptions of birth control methods. It was…
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The Illustrated Women In Science: Year One!
Thrill to the jungle-crawling entomology of Maria Merian, cheer at the multi-dimensional mathematics of Maryam Mirzakhani, weep at the tragic…
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This is Your Voice on Hormones
I recently got the privilege to see Laura Jane Grace perform live. Grace is the founder, guitarist, and lead singer…
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