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A Bay of Botany: Alice Eastwood’s Nine Decades and Three Hundred Thousand Specimens. (Women in Science 61)
April 18, 1906, and Alice Eastwood’s lunch bag hangs casually from a mastodon’s tusk while outside, a proud city burns. …
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Mad Art Cast with Special Guest Geek a Week Artist, Len Peralta
Welcome to episode #49 of Mad Art Cast! This week we bring you the master of geekery, speed drawing, monsters…
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Trajectories: Katherine Johnson’s Orbital Mathematics. (Women in Science 60)
Before NASA, there was NACA, an oddball collection of aeronautics nerds using black box data and wind tunnel analysis to…
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Capping the Chromosome: Elizabeth Blackburn and the Discovery of Telomerase (Women in Science 59)
Telomerase is one of those enzymes which just won’t let you come to a settled opinion. When it runs wild,…
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Lavinia Waterhouse: Gold Rush Physician, Frontier Suffragette. (Women in Science 58).
Lavinia Waterhouse (1809-1890) lives at the intersection of a tangle of ideas that, to the 21st Century mind, have no…
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Vibrating Spiders and Waggling Bees: Madeline Girard’s Multi-Modal Menagerie. (Women in Science 57)
It’s not what you say, it’s how you vibrate your opisthosoma while you’re saying it. – Ancient Peacock Spider…
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