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  • Double Xpression: Liz Neeley, Science Communicator Extraordinaire

    …s of turning skeptics into something other than skeptics – I might not change them into believers, but they will at least be surprised and interested onlookers.  Liz Neeley’s Favorite Focaccia INGREDIENTS: Scant 4 cups white bread flour 1 tablespoon salt Scant 1/2 cup olive oil 1 packet of active dry yeast 1 1/4 cups warm water Favorite olives, roughly chopped if you prefer Handful of fresh basil TIME: Start this m…

    Authored by on June 11, 2012

  • 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

  • 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

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

    …. My uncle Joe said to me, “Jennifer, you mean a nurse like your cousin Joanie, right?” My cousin Joan applied to Medical School in the sixties and the same group of uncles convinced her that her fiancé, Warren, wouldn’t wait 4 years to get married and it was more lady-like to be a nurse. Today she is a retired left-handed OR nurse that specializes in cracking open chests for cardiac surgery, not so lady-like after all. So in an attempt to not ha…

    Authored by on November 30, 2012

  • From spiders to breast cancer: Leslie Brunetta talks candidly about her cancer diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up

    According to Leslie Brunetta, she now has much more hair than she had last July. We became aware of Leslie Brunetta because of her book, Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating, co-authored with Catherine L. Craig. Thanks to a piece Leslie wrote for the Concord Monitor (and excerpted here), we also learned that she is a breast cancer survivor. Leslie agreed to an interview about her exper…

    Authored by on January 31, 2012

  • LEGO those gender stereotypes

    an: But you’re a girl.  Girls get butterflies. Daughter (giving me a desperate look): But I really want a jetpack! Realizing that my daughter was becoming unnecessarily upset, especially given the fact that there were 3 boys already engaging in play with their totally awesome jetpacks, myself and the hostess mother intervened.  We kindly reiterated my daughter’s requests for a jetpack.  And, so she was given a jetpack. Later that eve…

    Authored by on August 29, 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

  • African-American and female, doing field research in Africa

    …at Oklahoma State University. She is currently studying African-Pouched Rats, Cricetomys gambianus, an interesting yet largely mysterious animal whose keen sense of smell serves in the detection of landmines. She spent summer 2012 in Morogoro, Tanzania, studying the animals in the wild and in captivity….

    Authored by on January 23, 2013

  • Double Xpression: Debbie Berebichez, PhD Physicist

    …m.  My femininity allows me to be a voice in a field that has tended to isolate themselves from the public, which is bad. Some of my colleagues have become a little snobbish.  The fact that I have serious credentials (PhD and 2 postdocs) shows that I had to work like crazy – looks and personality can only go so far.  It s hard work that gets you there! Serious science communication has a lot of math and problem solving in order to explain things…

    Authored by on June 2, 2012

  • #DispatchesDNLee: Handling lady-business in the field

    nt barefoot for many occasions and traveled long distances, too! A week before my departure, I ran out of my solid, invisible unscented deodorant. I thought that I would just go to the drug store and buy more. Nope! I visited 4 stores and could only find was liquid roll-on anti-perspirant that was flowery smelling. It did nothing for me, but it didn’t really matter. It wasn’t uncommon to smell a ‘day’s worth of work’ on people throughout the day,…

    Authored by on February 21, 2013

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