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Harvard President Larry Summers Resigns

By way of Dem Apples, the Harvard College Democrats blog:Posted on February 20th, 2006 by KKrahel So the big news is that our infamous President, Lawrence H. Summers, is resigning his post after years...

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What We Need More of is Science: kids, education, and women in the...

It's so great to see the subject of science fairs become a hot topic here among the Kos cognoscenti-- To DailyKos readers the problems of plastic pollution are not new - it sits in landfills for...

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Saturday Morning Parenting Diary

Cross-posted at MotherTalkers.Good morning fellow moms, dads and caregivers!I am back with your weekly parenting news update. Here are some topics we recently discussed at MotherTalkers:

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Women in Science: Libbie Hyman 1888-1969

I was asked by someone in the community to write on women scientists.  There are a lot of them, some dating back to the Nineteenth Century or earlier.  Usually they were ignored or suppressed, but they...

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Women in Science: Beatrix Potter 1866-1943

When one thinks of Beatrix Potter, one is naturally drawn to her children's books, Peter Rabbit and the others, which are familiar to most literate people who have read them as children or to children....

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Women in Science: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin 1900-1979

When people mentioned astronomers while I was growing up in the 1950s they seldom mentioned women (with the possible exceptions of Maria Mitchell or Caroline Hershel). In recent years that has changed,...

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Women in Science: Lise Meitner 1878-1968

The atomic bomb was a major technological accomplishment, despite its moral problems. Some physicists at the time thought that a chain reaction that would lead to a nuclear explosion in which at least...

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Women in Science: Elizabeth Gifford Peckham 1854-1940

Elizabeth Maria Gifford was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in December of 1854.  She was pretty much associated with her birth city for most of her life.  She graduated from Vassar College in 1876 and...

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Women in Science: Maria Sibylla Merian 1647-1717

Few people had even been interested in the flora and fauna of northern South America until a very remarkable woman, Maria Sibylla Merian, started her project on the insects (and to a large degree, the...

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Women in Science: Arabella Buckley 1840-1929

Many women who worked in science were actually hired as secretaries or scientific assistants for well-known male scientists.  One such was Arabella Buckley, who became a science educator and also...

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Women in Science: Mary Davis Treat 1830-1923

In the late 1800s the idea of women in economic entomology was pretty much a non-starter. There were, in fact, only a few men in this embryonic field. However one name of a female stood out - that of...

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Women in Science: Jane Colden 1724-1766

There were quite a number of female botanists during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, but for the United States at least, the true pioneer was Jane Colden, who lived in the Eighteenth Century....

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Women in Science: Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace 1815-1852

The only legitimate child of Lord Byron by Anne Isabella "Annabella" Milbanke, Baroness Byron, was destined to lay the groundwork for the modern computer.  Born Ada Augusta Byron in 1815, she became...

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Women in Science: Jeanne Baret 1740-1807

A most unlikely event happened from 1766 to 1775.  A woman sailed around the world, partly as a botanical assistant on a scientific expedition. She did so, at least part of the way, disguised as a man,...

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Women in Science: Margaret Ursula Mee 1909-1988

Scientific illustration has had a definite effect on field biology, as a recent book and print collection published by the American Museum of Natural History in New York ("Natural Histories:...

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Women in Science: Hypatia 350/370-415

I am finally getting around to the earliest women recorded reliably to have worked in the sciences.  Hypatia was a mathematician and physicist at the nearly legendary Alexandrian Museum and Library and...

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Women in Science: Barbara McClintock 1902-1992

Barbara McClintock was one of the great geneticists of the Twentieth Century. She was a Nobel laureate (1983) who studied the genetics of corn (maize). She revolutionized genetics with her discovery of...

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Thoughts on Women in Science

I have now posted 24 diaries concerning the contributions of women to science prior to the 21st Century.  These have been:Barbara McClintock http://www.dailykos.com/...Augusta Ada King Countess of...

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Women in Science: Mary Lucy Cartwright 1900-1998

Chaos Theory has probably been more in the public mind since the first "Jurassic Park" movie, but few probably realize that the mathematics behind it was in part developed by a woman and mathematical...

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Women in Science: Doris Cochran 1898-1968

One female scientist was closely associated with my father-in-law, Coleman Goin.  Like him, her main interest was frogs. I am talking about Doris Mabel Cochran, who was one of the few women in...

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