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The Patch of Sea Floor That Regrew a Bay: Julia Platt’s Remarkable Legacy
Monterey Bay in the 1930s stood at the nadir of its ecological fortunes, having sustained every imaginable indignity that mankind’s...
Dale DeBakcsy
52 minutes ago6 min read
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Knowing the Enemy: Margaretta Hare Morris and the Birth of Agricultural Entomology.
In the late 18th century, when a crop failed, farmers and agricultural enthusiasts traded theories about what was to be done in the pages...
Dale DeBakcsy
4 days ago9 min read
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Healing the Scars: Edna Adan Ismail’s Fight to Bring Women’s Health Care to Somaliland.
CONTENT WARNING: The following article discusses Female Genital Mutilation, a practice that was universal in Somaliland during Ismail’s...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 211 min read
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An Ascending Arc: The Educator’s Journey of Mathematician Lovenia Deconge Watson
In one sense, the story of Lovenia Deconge Watson (b. 1933) is the story of thousands of bright young Black women, born in the South in...
Dale DeBakcsy
Mar 267 min read
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Who Controls the Water: Harriet Strong the Pampas Queen, and the Future of Irrigation.
In the 1880s, Southern California agriculture was in a state of crisis. The wheat which had been long the basis of its prosperity was...
Dale DeBakcsy
Mar 226 min read
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