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• Happy belated birthday, Mary Anning!

  shop permanently. By what he calls a “curious stroke of luck,” he has all of the 18th century papers of his great-great-great-great (that’s four) grandfather, including diaries, accounts, letters, and even shopping lists. In 2011, he published the story of this ancestor’s life as a social history, “The Life of a Georgian Gentleman,’ and thus, a blog was also born. We thank Mike for having graciously given us permission to publish his post here b…

  Authored by Emily Willingham on May 25, 2012

• What blinded Mary Ingalls?

  …y gone, yellow fever only exists in a few parts of the world and measles is now very rare – all due to vaccines. It’s easy to forget how devastating the “usual childhood diseases” of the 19th and early 20th centuries were to families. Sanitation improvements have helped tremendously. So have antibiotics and other medical advances. And so have vaccines. This post originally appeared at Red Wine & Apple Sauce. Photo cour…

  Authored by Tara Haelle on February 19, 2013

• (Almost) Wordless Wednesday: Mary Vaux Walcott

  …for her photography, her most lasting legacy is her collection of paintings of the trees and flowers she cataloged. Below, a visual bouquet of those flowers for today’s (almost) Wordless Wednesday. Mary Vaux Walcott 1860-1940…

  Authored by Emily Willingham on November 16, 2011

• Historical Chemists Part II

  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 with for 26 years. Emma Perry Carr was the first recipient of the Garvan Medal. Marie Sklodowska CuriePhoto from Wikimedia Commons Physicist & Chemist Marie Sklodowska Curie was the first twice Nobel Prize laureate.  …

  Authored by Adrienne Roehrich on September 7, 2012

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

  …molecules themselves break down into a surprisingly small number of building blocks. The proteins that make up all of the living things on this planet and ensure their appropriate structure and smooth function consist of only 20 different kinds of building blocks. Nucleic acids, specifically DNA, are even more basic: only four different kinds of molecules provide the materials to build the countless different genetic codes that translate into all…

  Authored by Emily Willingham on June 8, 2012

• Historical Chemists

  ation not able to be presented in 140 characters. Each woman could have multiple pages written on her; however, I have limited each to a paragraph. I hope you look up more on these women.  The International Year of Chemistry 2011 recently wrapped up, so I’d like to share a little more about some historical women in chemistry. Miriam the Alchemist By Michael Maier (1566-1622)  The first historical woman in chemistry is perhaps Miriam th…

  Authored by Adrienne Roehrich on January 10, 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 DXS Contributor on March 27, 2013

• A tour of digestion from nose to um…tail

  Mary Roach’s Gulp is a trip through the gooier side of human anatomy By Matthew R. Francis Mary Roach is one of the more fearless writers out there. Not in the physical sense — she doesn’t put herself into particularly dangerous situations, like certain reporters or travel writers — but intellectually. I don’t know if she’s incapable of embarrassment, but certainly she’s able to submerge that as she asks companies…

  Authored by Matthew R Francis on May 7, 2013

• Modern Chemists

  Our next installment of notable women in science brings us to chemists. Many of these women were born in the early part of the 20thcentury and forged their paths in tough times. All are still inspiring others today. Presented in no particular order: Catherine Clarke Fenselau is a pioneer in mass spectrometry.  Born in 1939, her interested in science was apparent before her 10th grade. She was encouraged to attend a women’s college, whi…

  Authored by Adrienne Roehrich on April 23, 2012

• Literal XX Xplainer: How we can live with two X chromosomes

  …ression of one X chromosome in each cell makes each woman a lovely mosaic of genetic expression (although not true genetic mosaicism), varying from cell to cell in whether we use genes from X chromosome 1 or from X chromosome 2. Because these gene forms can differ between the two X chromosomes, we are simply less uniform in what our X chromosome genes do than are men. An exception is men who are XXY, who also shut down one of those X chromosomes…

  Authored by Emily Willingham on June 27, 2012