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  • Mariette DiChristina

    …What I mean is, I wanted to know how everything worked, and I wanted to learn about it firsthand. At a tag sale, for instance, I remember buying a second-hand biology book called The Body along with my second-hand Barbie for 50 cents. “Are you sure your mom is going to be OK with you buying that?” asked the concerned neighbor, eyeing the biology book. I memorized the names and orbital periods of the planets and of dinosaurs like some kids spo…

    Authored by on February 17, 2012

  • Double Xpression: Darlene Cavalier of Science Cheerleader and SciStarter

    creatic cancer. That criticism that’s ill informed is the worst type. Putting them in a bad light and they don’t deserve it. They volunteer to do this. They do it because they really believe in it. There are an estimated 3 to 4 million cheerleaders in the US. They want to reach that group, let them know it’s OK to love math and science, (to say) here’s my experience, here’s how I learned what an engineer is, here’s what my day is like. They’re al…

    Authored by on April 18, 2012

  • Double Xpression: Karyn Traphagen, co-founder of ScienceOnline

    …e the one of two females on our Math League squad and to have access to advanced science courses and labs in high school. It seems I always took a circuitous route though. I helped change the rules so that I could graduate in 3 years. I was very fortunate to have lots of opportunities after graduation (including being recruited for the first female class at West Point). But then, I took on other responsibilities and went back to school later to f…

    Authored by on July 9, 2012

  • Double Xpressions: Jennifer Canale, the self-proclaimed "Flamboyant Scientist"

    …connection to science?   [JC] I have always been interested in science, and since most of my family worked in Bellvue Hospital, I was very comfortable around people in lab coats.  In the early seventies, at the age of 5, I announced to my grandfather, the X-ray technician, and his brothers (my great uncles) that I wanted to become a doctor, specifically a doctor that delivers babies. My grandfather was proud and my uncles were dismayed….

    Authored by on November 30, 2012

  • Don’t worry so much about being the right type of science role model

    …ination of femininity and math success by asking two questions: “How likely do you think it is that you could be both as successful in math/science AND as feminine or girly as these students by the end of high school?” (p. 5) “Do being good at math and being girly go together?” (p. 5) Honestly, it’s at this point that the study loses me. The first question has serious validity issues (and nowhere in the study is the validity of the outcome me…

    Authored by on May 30, 2012

  • Leah Gerber, conservation biologist and lover of sushi

    …uencers in your career? LG: My first child, Gabriella, was born just after I submitted my application  for tenure – so it was good timing.  And I was able to slow down.  I quickly realized that I wasn’t able to work a 60+hour week.  Before kids, I lived to work.  Now, I work to live.  I absolutely love my job and I feel so lucky that I have a career that I believe in and that I am actually paid to do it – it’s not just a hobby.  But havin…

    Authored by on September 17, 2012

  • Women in science … on television?!? Evidently not

    Really, TV people? Again with the “male only” science hosts?Image via Wikimedia Commons, credit to Wonderlane.  Emily Willingham, DXS managing editor Today, I’ve seen yet another casting call for the “new Bill Nye the Science Guy” specifying a need for a male host for a science show. In fact, female science show hosts are so rare that even when a call seems to invite women as well as men, the people who wr…

    Authored by on July 30, 2012

  • Double Xpression: Debbie Berebichez, PhD Physicist

    …lecules with purples and reds and greens, and I tried to explain it at the most basic level. This is because of one my philosophy professors in Mexico, who told me that if you cannot explain what you do to your grandmother or 6 year old niece, you don’t understand what you are doing – I loved it!   And I said to myself that I shouldn’t care what they think.  I pretty much expected to not gain a lot of respect from the physics department, b…

    Authored by on June 2, 2012

  • Double Xpression: Liz Neeley, Science Communicator Extraordinaire

    …      In a large bowl, combine the flour and salt with 1Ž4 cup of the olive oil, the yeast & the water. Mix with your hands for about 3 minutes. 2.     Lightly dust your countertop with flour and knead your dough for 6 minutes. Enjoy your arm workout and stress relief exercise!  3.     The dough will be pretty sticky. Put it back in the bowl, cover it with a damp cloth, and let stand at room temperature for 2 hours. 4.     Mix 1Ž2…

    Authored by on June 11, 2012

  • The real scandal: science denialism at Susan G. Komen for the Cure®

    …ple. “What’s key to surviving breast cancer? YOU. Get screened now,” the ad says. The unmistakeable takeaway? It’s your fault if you die of cancer. The blurb below the big arrow explains why. “Early detection saves lives. The 5-year survival rate for breast cancer when caught early is 98%. When it’s not? 23%.” If only it were that simple. As I’ve written previously here, the notion that breast cancer is a uniformly progressive disease that starts…

    Authored by on February 11, 2012

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