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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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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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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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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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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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