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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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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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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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Ms. Marvel, or When Comics Meet Religion
Injecting serious religious discourse into a comic is a task fraught with potential disaster offering up little more than A…
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Emmy Noether Solves the Universe.
“Momentum is always conserved, except when it isn’t.” In high school physics, we learn all manner of conservation laws, one…
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Math Girls: A Manga on how to be a Trig Rock Star and Still Survive High School
“Open any math book and you’ll find a ton of equations. Each one is an expression of someone’s thoughts. There’s…
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Maria Merian: The Princess Bubblegum of 17th Century Biology
Biology took a while to figure itself out. For centuries, it was a mish-mash of Aristotelian sentiments and cabinets of…
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Isabel Morgan, Polio, and the High Cost of Marriage
Polio, unique among humanity’s eradicated diseases, carries with it a visual familiarity that has insistently lingered far beyond its demise.…
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