women in science
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Biology
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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Biology
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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Comic
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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Biology
The Strangers Within: Lynn Margulis and the Rebirth of Endosymbiosis (Women in Science 54).
In terms of cell count, ninety percent of you isn’t you at all. Bacteria, though by mass they only…
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Activism
Labor pains–Piper Harron’s mathematics thesis
I’ve recommended a lot of books to people over the years for their various merits. I’m recommending that everyone read…
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Astronomy
The Women in Science Reading List: The Twenty Best (And Four Not Best) Books To Read and Own
When I first started collecting biographies of female scientists, I thought the genre, thanks to the historical and systemic neglect…
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Chemistry
The Queen of Wind-Blown Sediments: Kelly Deuerling’s Aeolian Geochemistry (Women in Science 53)
Life is an ion-hungry enterprise. Sure, carbs, proteins, and fatty acids get most of the press, but without a steady…
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Astronomy
8 Comets, 2500 Nebulae: Caroline Herschel’s Century of Astronomy
In 2092, if there are still humans on our planet to look and to see, a comet will appear in…
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