LGBTQ Pride Month
...because they were homosexual or suspected of being homosexual. What’s Behind the Very Real Butch Quarantine Hair Crisis? Liz Tracey April 25, 2020 What's a masculine lesbian to do when...
A Little Light Reading
...June 3, 2020 Idioms have a special power to draw people together in a way that plain speech doesn't. What’s Behind the Very Real Butch Quarantine Hair Crisis? Liz Tracey...
Women Nerds!
...Stolen from Her Liz Tracey February 26, 2020 The Black scientist Alice Ball helped develop a treatment for leprosy in the early twentieth century. But someone else took the credit....
A Science Reader for COVID-19
What pandemics often do, in addition to causing debilitating illness and profound loss, is expose: the gaps in our scientific knowledge, the limitations on our abilities to respond, and the...
The Library That Walked Across Belgium
Need a good, long walk? Don’t forget to pack a book or two. It’s not just a tradition, it’s also the basis for a recent traveling performance. In 2012, theatre...
Joan of Arc, for Fascists and Feminists
A minor irony of 1920 was that the Roman Catholic church canonized a teenage peasant girl it had burned back in 1431. This was the short-haired, armor-plated, sword-wielding, horse-riding, saint-voice-hearing,...
Cytokine Storms: The Cruel Irony of an Immune Response
In John M. Barry’s book on the 1918 flu pandemic, The Great Influenza, one of the most striking passages concerns what actually killed many of the young, healthy victims of...
Preprints, Science, and the News Cycle
In 1991, a preprint server went online at Los Alamos Laboratory, famous home of the Manhattan Project. ArXiv was an electronic repository where physicists could share papers with their colleagues...
Shayla Lawson: All of Us Came from the Same Root
...being black women is our joy. That’s one of the things that people are accepting about Lizzo that Lizzo didn’t necessarily learn to accept about herself—because all of a sudden...
What’s Behind the Very Real Butch Quarantine Hair Crisis?
A specter is haunting the mirrors of the world—the specter of rapidly growing hair. With COVID-19 closing barber shops and salons, the short-haired people of the world have been brought...