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Cyanobacteria and Misery: The Many Hats of Anna Zakrisson (Women in Science 51)
A large black labrador pushes through the snow, pulling a sledge of scientific equipment to the foot of a glacier…
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Twitter Poll Text Adventure
A few nights ago, I started using the new Twitter Poll feature to tell a sort of text based adventure…
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Of Art and Ant Hills
I’ve been watching a slew of videos like the one above of scientists and artisans pouring aluminum, lead, plaster, and…
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Respect the Wood: When Pinterest Goes Well
There were a good couple of years between when I first saw Pinterest and when I finally made an account.…
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Western Science’s Last Breath Before Dying: Hypatia Of Alexandria (Women in Science 49)
By 400 CE, Alexandria was a nervous husk dancing the edge of zealous self-annihilation. For centuries the intellectual capital of…
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Book Nerd – The Red Magician
My uncle Pierre had a lot of books, which are now mine. He had a knack for picking books, but…
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New Paper Doll! The Metamorphosis of Maria Merian
Maria Merian was a seventeenth century entomologist who self-financed an insect finding expedition to the jungles of Surinam, and whose…
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The Chemistry of Rose Scent
I created a painting about the chemistry of the scent of roses. Chemist, Dr Ray Burks was my science advisor…
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