Dale DeBakcsy11 hours ago7 minIt Came from Teichmüller Space! The All-Too-Brief Mathematical Adventures of Maryam MirzakhaniA square, who works as a lawyer in the two-dimensional world of Flatland, sits down with his hexagonal grandson: Taking nine squares,...
Dale DeBakcsy1 day ago10 minEmma Darwin and the Invisible Heroism of the Scientific Caretaker.The road leading to the creation and publication of The Origin of the Species was one of the most tortuous and personally costly in the...
Dale DeBakcsy5 days ago8 minShe Sang the Arc Electric: Hertha Marks AyrtonSometimes, simplicity dooms. In World War I, chlorine gas hailed down upon the British soldiers trudging through their semi-lives in the...
Dale DeBakcsyApr 217 minThe Last Woman Who Knew Everything: The Omnivorous Mind of Clémence Royer.When Clémence Royer died on February 7, 1902, she took with her into oblivion perhaps the last human brain that believed in and aimed for...
Dale DeBakcsyApr 165 minBroken Hearts and Nuclear Secrets: Marie Maynard Daly, America's First Black Woman Chemist.The years of the Second World War gifted to American feminism one of its most enduring icons in the form of Rosie the Riveter. She was...