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Adventures in Chimpland: The Primatology Revolution of Jane Goodall. (Women in Science 26)
Of all the figures I’ve done on Women In Science this year, none have evoked such instant and unequivocal expressions…
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Saving Oceans by Saving Otters: The Marine Conservation of Sandrine Hazan (Women in Science 25!)
The southern sea otter is the white knight of the Pacific Coastal ecosystem. In an ocean threatened by the ravenous…
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Trades… Of… Science! FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics, Volume 1.
Quantum tornados, localized time dilation, and fluctuating gravity are the workaday business of the Federal Bureau of Physics, a governmental…
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The Secret Life of Hormones: Rosalyn Yalow and the Discovery of Radioimmunoassaying
There’s an unsung immensity in the craft of Measuring Things Better. Within our twisting cleverness for developing better and better…
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Our Neighbor Australopithecus: The Anthropology of Mary Leakey
The 1960s and early 1970s were the Rock Star era of anthropology, when each year seemed to bring a stunning…
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Summing the Cosmos: Henrietta Swan Leavitt and The Saga of the Cepheid Stars (Women in Science 22)
Astronomy is the sifting science. Its practitioners rake the sky, star by star, collecting and cataloguing, and when they are…
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It Came From Teichmueller Space! The Mathematical Adventures of Maryam Mirzakhani
A square, who works as a lawyer in the two-dimensional world of Flatland, sits down with his hexagonal grandson: …
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The Woman Who Saved Shakespeare and Helped Win Two Wars: Cryptanalyst Elizebeth Friedman (Women In Science 20)
Before Elizebeth and William Friedman, American cryptanalysis did not exist. The best thing we had, theoretically, were the occasional musings…
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