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  • Wordless Wednesday: Marie Curie, scientist, sister, and mother

    Today’s Wordless(ish) Wednesday Marie Curie, November 7, 1867-July 4, 1934 “We must believe that we are gifted for something.” The future scientist and mother as a girl of 16. Marie (far left) with her sisters and father. How did they breathe in those corsets? We don’t know. Marie in 1903, the year she won the Nobel prize in physics. She turned 36 that year. The scientist in her lab. Marie in 1911, the year s…

    Authored by on November 9, 2011

  • Historical Physicists

    Featured today are 10 more women who broke boundaries by their presence in physics. They lived from 1711 to 2000. While I again limited information to one paragraph, I tried to highlight how they got their start, what universities, family members, and scientists were supportive of them. For these women, without the support of fathers, mothers, husbands, and mentors (all male with one exception) their life in science would not have happened. Whil…

    Authored by on February 21, 2012

  • There will never be another Curie…and that’s a good thing

    For your serious Sunday consideration, from Double X Science physics editor, Matthew Francis. The above courtesy of xkcd, a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. If you had to name the top scientists of the 20th century, any reasonable list must include Polish-French scientist Marie Sklodowska Curie. She won the Nobel Prize twice, a feat only matched by three others: once in physics (in 1903) for her work in radioactivity,…

    Authored by on November 27, 2011

  • Videos make science personal

    …I told you, “Lice are vectors for the bacterium that causes typhus”  I bet you wouldn’t remember that as well as you would, “Napoleon started a war with an army of 500,000 men. He ended it with about 35,000. Most of them died not on the battlefield but in hospitals, from the terrible, fevered disease known as typhus. The microbe that causes typhus passed easily from man to man, even from the clothing of the dead, by way…

    Authored by on November 8, 2011

  • Biology Explainer: The big 4 building blocks of life–carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and nucleic acids

    …ll selection of different materials: bricks, mortar, iron, glass, and wood. Arranged in different ways, these few materials can yield a huge variety of structures. We encountered functional groups and the SPHONC in Chapter 3. These components form the four categories of molecules of life. These Big Four biological molecules are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. They can have many roles, from giving an organism structure to be…

    Authored by on June 8, 2012

  • Historical Chemists Part II

    fter a short duration as an instructor at Mt. Holyoke, Dr. Carr returned to the University of Chicago to receive her PhD in 1910. She returned to Mt. Holyoke to become a full professor and head of the department by the age of 33, a post she held for 33 years. Dr. Carr was also a devoted aunt,a fashionable dresser, and a talented storyteller. She had a relationship with Mary Sherrill, another professor at Mt. Holyoke, whom she shared a residence w…

    Authored by on September 7, 2012

  • After Newtown missteps, journalists get guidelines

    …almost twice as likely to say that they don’t want to live or work near a person with mental illness if they read an article about a person with mental illness involved in a mass shooting, according to a study published March 20 in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Interestingly, this tendency is the same even if the article avoids any mention of mental illness. This may be because this link between violence and mental illness is deeply engrain…

    Authored by on March 27, 2013

  • Diversity in Science Carnival #14: Women’s History Month–Exploring the role of women in the STEM enterprise

    …and I close with a quote from it. It’s a letter by Chitra Thakur-Mahadik, who earned her PhD in biochemistry and hemoglobinopathy from the University of Mumbai and served as staff scientist a Mumbai children’s hospital for 25 years. She wrote to her younger, “partially sighted” self that, “The future is ahead and it is not bad!” She goes on to say, “Be fearless but be compassionate to yourself and others… be brave, keep your eyes and ears open…

    Authored by on March 29, 2012

  • Depressing genes

    ter all, that’s one of the reasons why scientists are trying to identify risk genes: to design better treatments for those disorders. [Image credit: DNA, public domain image from US govt. Image of Prozac, credit Tom Varco, CC 3.0 license.] [Siobhan Mitchell obtained a Neurobiology Ph.D. at the State University New York at Albany (SUNY Albany), followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at University of Washington, Seattle. She currently works at the…

    Authored by on May 17, 2013

  • Is the bar high enough for screening breast ultrasounds for breast cancer?

    …n controversial. What’s new is the “Are You Dense?” patient movement and legislation to inform women that they have dense breasts. Merits and pitfalls of device approval The approval of breast ultrasound hinges on a study of 200 women with dense breast evaluated retrospectively at 13 sites across the United States with mammography and ultrasound. The study showed a statistically significant increase in breast cancer detection when ultrasound was…

    Authored by on September 21, 2012

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