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  • (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 on November 16, 2011

  • Happy belated birthday, Mary Anning!

    Mary Anning and a small, non-fossilized dog. (Source) [Today, we’re featuring a post by Mike Rendell, author and keeper of Georgian Gentleman, a blog chronicling aspects of 18th century life. Mike spent 30 years as a lawyer–poor fellow–before he retired to time travel in his mind back to the 18th century, where he has set up mental shop permanently. By what he calls a “curious stroke of luck,” he has all of the 18th century papers o…

    Authored by on May 25, 2012

  • What blinded Mary Ingalls?

    …isease from that era. Scarlet fever was considered one of the top four causes of blindness until at least 1910 even though doctors don’t understand how the fever might cause blindness. It also killed anywhere from 15 to 30 percent of those who fell ill with it. But there were three other top causes of blindness then: measles, meningitis and “other diseases of the head.” And the evidence from primary sources points to one of thes…

    Authored by on February 19, 2013

  • 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

  • Historical Chemists

    eral Distinguished Service Citations. Dr. Medes was at the forefront of cancer research and named a rare disease, tyrosinosis [PDF].  Marguerite Perey (1909-1975) was the first woman to enter the French Academy of Science in 300 years. She earned her Diplôme d’État de chimiste from École d’enseignement technique féminine and her doctorate from Sorbonne. She worked with Marie Curie and discovered the element francium. Perey received t…

    Authored by 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 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 on May 7, 2013

  • Modern Chemists

    to chemistry, biology, and medicine led to her renown in several fields. She has also spent much time in service positions. Her awards include the Martin Company Gold Medal for Outstanding Scientific Accomplishments (received 3 times), the Garvan Medal, and honored as one of ten Outstanding Women in the State of Maryland. Madeleine M. Joullie is known for elegant research and inspirational teaching.  Born in 1927, her early life in Brazil was…

    Authored by on April 23, 2012

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

    …ous about this dosage compensation thing and will tolerate no Xtra dissent. If we kept the entire X chromosome active, that would be a lot of Xtra gene dosage. The X chromosome contains about 1100 genes, and in humans, about 300 diseases and disorders are linked to genes on this chromosome, including  hemophilia  and  Duchenne muscular dystrophy . Because males get only one chromosome, these X-linked diseases are more frequent among males–…

    Authored by on June 27, 2012

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