women in science
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Biology
the tragedy of dian fossey. (women in science 64)
There are people to whom it is given to wait alone on humanity’s dark edge and stand against all the…
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Comic
The Billion Roads From Here to There: The Graph Theory Combinatorics of Fan Chung (Women in Science 63)
“Well, some go this way, some go that way. But as for me, myself, personally, I prefer the short-cut.” –…
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Featured
WIP Weekend: Making Women in Science.
Why hello there! It’s Dale, the chap who writes the Women in Science cartoon column here every other Wednesday, and…
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Chemistry
From ATP to MRI: Mildred Cohn’s Pioneering Work in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (Women in Science 62)
ATP is the stuff of life. Without it, cell communication shuts down, muscles freeze, and anything requiring ready energy (which…
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Biology
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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Comic
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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Biology
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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Comic
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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