Have you noticed that you see so many pictures of people wearing face masks during the 1918-20 influenza pandemic, but you don’t…
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Covid-19 The Limits of Those Reviews of Masks For All and What We Do Know
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Covid-19 First in Human: Covid-19 Vaccines & Tales of Phase 1 Clinical Trials Past
The people who sign up for the first-in-human trials of Covid-19 vaccines are about to do our societies an extraordinary service. Most…
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Black History Month Black History Month: Chemists’ Powerful Stories & the Sociologist Who Studied Them
It was “a large, plain white building”, W.E.B. Du Bois wrote, “on the banks of the Seine, opposite the Rue des…
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Black History Month Stories of African-American STEM Societies: Part 4 — From Anthropologists to Academic Surgeons
This Black History Month, I’ve dug into the origin stories of African-American STEM societies, and the amazing people who started…
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Black History Month Stories of African-American STEM Societies: Part 3 — From Sociologists to Engineers
This Black History Month, I’ve dug into the founding stories of African-American STEM societies. In previous posts we’ve covered groups from…
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Black History Month Stories of African-American STEM Societies: Part 2 — From Psychologists to Mathematicians
After the slow first wave of African-American STEM societies from 1895 to 1947 (part 1), a new wave swept in…
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Black History Month Stories of African-American STEM Societies: Part 1 — The First Wave (1895 to 1947)
When we celebrate STEM history, we tend to focus on individuals singled out for specific inspiring scientific achievements. And that’s…
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Evidence Post-Surgery Thoughts on Evidence and Choice
I had been losing sight, slowly at first, but later, scarily quickly. By the time I had my first surgery…
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Black History Month Black History Month: Mathematicians’ Powerful Stories
It was a turning point. The previous year, the US Civil Rights Act had passed. On 26 January 1969 in…
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History Peak Gender Gap: Women at the Top of Science Agencies
This story didn’t get off to a very good start. It turns out, it’s not easy to dig out online who’s been…
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History Why Pockets and Waves of De-Feminization in Science’s Past Matter Now
I knew there wasn’t a steady, inexorable rise of women in science. I still thought of it as a trajectory of progress though: virtually…
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History “The Same Folly, the Same Fury”: A.V. Hill in 1933
Freedom itself is again at stake… It is difficult to believe in progress, at least in decency and commonsense, when this…