Science & Nature
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Hyperbolic Crochet
I never took any of the classes in the excellent fiber department at my art school. Maybe I thought it…
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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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Blue Babies with Crossword Puzzle Hearts: The Pediatric Cardiology of Helen Taussig. (Women in Science 56)
It’s sometime in the 1930s, and you’re walking into a ward full of crouching children with blue-tinted lips. Something is…
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Odilon Redon’s Dark Musings on Evolution
Imagine you are Adam or Eve in the Garden of Eden in a state of blissfully ignorant grace. You reach…
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Primal Screams: Sophie Germain’s Mathematical Labors (Women in Science 55)
It’s a well known fact of humanity that the chances of a group of people electing to do something decent…
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