For Jimmy Carter, With Love From The Little Girl Who Liked To Read
Women You Should Know
by Guest Contributor
1y ago
By Lori Day – “Hey there. I see you like to read,” he said, smiling his toothy grin in a way that almost cut through my shyness. “What books do you like?” I paused, nervous. The significance of that moment registered fleetingly. I could not fully grasp it at nine years of age, but it was there. I figured I had better list some impressive titles! My mother’s voice whispered in my mind that I should have good eye contact. I wanted to be the kind of girl that I could feel proud of when I was grown, looking back on that day.  I glanced up at Jimmy Carter’s face and thought, I am actually talk ..read more
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For Jimmy Carter, With Love From The Little Girl Who Liked To Read
Women You Should Know
by Guest Contributor
1y ago
By Lori Day – “Hey there. I see you like to read,” he said, smiling his toothy grin in a way that almost cut through my shyness. “What books do you like?” I paused, nervous. The significance of that moment registered fleetingly. I could not fully grasp it at nine years of age, but it was there. I figured I had better list some impressive titles! My mother’s voice whispered in my mind that I should have good eye contact. I wanted to be the kind of girl that I could feel proud of when I was grown, looking back on that day.  I glanced up at Jimmy Carter’s face and thought, I am actually talk ..read more
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Brains In Love And Brains Alone: The Social Neuroscience Of Stephanie Cacioppo
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by Dale DeBakcsy
1y ago
One would think that there is no aspect of the brain’s multitudinous biochemical majesty that lies outside of the interest of neuroscientists. There is an embarrassment of research riches packed into that 1300 grams of neural matter, each topic surely affording a unique avenue of insight into the nature of humanity that any neuroscientist would be glad to call their own. And that is true, nearly. A budding young scientist proposing to research the topics of memory, spatial perception, or task planning, or the neurochemical roots of addiction, will find the doors of funding flung wide open for ..read more
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Letting Loose The Dogs of Chaos: Mary Lucy Cartwright And Her Pioneering Portrayals Of Functions Behaving Badly
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by Dale DeBakcsy
1y ago
Our concept of living in a universe with a knowable and predictable future has taken two stunning blows in the last century, first from quantum mechanics in the 1920s, which uncovered a number of quantities which don’t play well together and place limits on the degree to which we can measure the world around us, and then, with far less fanfare but with potentially even greater repercussions, from some odd mathematical results discovered by Mary Lucy Cartwright (1900-1998) and JE Littlewood while investigating the behavior of radar signal amplifiers during World War II. Their results, worked ou ..read more
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To Battle, And Battle, And Battle: The Many Struggles Of American Red Cross Founder Clara Barton
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by Dale DeBakcsy
1y ago
Clara Barton was on this planet for nine decades, and spent roughly seven of those locked in institutional struggles that would have broken and gutted a person of lesser determination and drive. Whether it was her attempt to open the door for women as government employees, or her three years exposing herself to gunfire on the battlefields of the Civil War to bring adequate frontline care to the Union’s soldiers, or her long attempt to compel the United States government to devote proper resources to finding the War’s missing soldiers, or her even longer drive to forge the American Red Cross in ..read more
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Maria Winkelmann And The Guilded Age Of Astronomy
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by Dale DeBakcsy
1y ago
Back in the age when historians favored hard and fast lines between different Eras of world history, 1543 stood as the gold standard boundary between the Old world and the Modern one.  That was the year Nicolaus Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus orbium coelestium was published, unveiling the heliocentric model of the universe from which an entirely new, increasingly secular, notion of the cosmos would grow.  As such, 1543 became the shorthand boundary between the old astronomy, which managed impressive feats of accuracy but was hampered by the dead weight of astrological and theological ..read more
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Champion Of Chinese Heliocentrism: How Wang Zhenyi Went From Horseback Martial Artist To Stellar Mathematician
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by Dale DeBakcsy
1y ago
An arrow hits a target as a fifteen year old girl on a horse goes galloping victoriously by.  It is not an unusual sight in late eighteenth century China – learning equestrian and martial skills was considered as normal an accomplishment to upper class women of that era as pianoforte playing and embroidery were to their European contemporaries.  The girl riding that horse, however, was decidedly an unusual character, one who set herself to grapple with all of the fields of endeavor offered by her time, from mathematics to poetry to martial arts to astronomy, and made a name for herse ..read more
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Kepler, For the People: Maria Cunitz’s Urania Propitia And The Popularization Of Heliocentrism
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by Dale DeBakcsy
1y ago
When Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) rewrote our conception of how heavenly bodies move by replacing the ideal and eternal circles of classical philosophy with elliptical orbits along which planets move with variable velocities, he did so in part by harnessing the power of a hot piece of mathematical technology fresh off the presses, the logarithm.  Originating in 1614 in John Napier’s Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, the logarithm was recognized by some as a powerful tool for discovering new connections between the measurable quantities of nature, and an even more useful widget for ..read more
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The Life Stories Of Birds: How Margaret Morse Nice Ended Ornithology’s Long List Era
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by Dale DeBakcsy
1y ago
When you headed out into the field as a 19th century ornithologist, you had one of two things in mind as to what constituted your profession: (1) to look for birds and add them to your regional list, or (2) to perhaps capture and kill some of those birds to study their physical properties later for taxonomic purposes. You wanted to know where different birds were, and what they looked like, but as to what they did with their lives, and why they did it, those were either questions of profound indifference, or ones so seemingly difficult to approach that it was a cavernous waste of time and effo ..read more
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Return To Nature: Stella Brewer And The Science Of Chimpanzee Rehabilitation
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by Dale DeBakcsy
1y ago
Our interactions with our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, the chimpanzees, have rarely been entirely honorable. We dress them up in amusing hats, teach them to smoke, keep them as pets, and when they stop being sources of transitory amusement and start being real sentient creatures with complicated behavioral lives, we dump them in the wild they no longer know how to survive in, or sell them to another individual as ill equipped to meet their needs as we were. The fate of these outcast individuals was generally a tragic one – even placed in the most well-intentioned of hands, there wa ..read more
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