The Famous and Forgotten Women of STEM
...opportunity for service that highlighted their deeply ambiguous position, as Ellen More explained in a 1989 paper. The “Doctress” Was In: Rebecca Lee Crumpler Liz Tracey March 9, 2020 The...
Women Nerds!
...The Chemist Whose Work Was 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...
“I Have a Dream”: Annotated
For this month’s Annotations, we’ve taken Martin Luther King, Jr.’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech, and provided scholarly analysis of its groundings and inspirations—the speech’s religious, political, historical and...
Plant of the Month: Cretan Rockrose
We are more than two years into a global pandemic that has claimed at least five and a half million lives, if not double or quadruple that. The staggering toll...
Only Love Can Break Your Heart?
How we name our diseases, disorders and syndromes can be a matter of stake-claiming (the discoverer is immortalized with their surname attached), description of the observable manifestations or, on occasion,...
Plant of the Month: Cassava
The boba in your bubble tea, produced using tapioca extracted from cassava root, is not only a delicious snack. Rather, it could provide help in ameliorating the impacts of climate-induced...
The Emancipation Proclamation: Annotated
...Secretary of State. Related Content The Declaration of Independence: Annotated Liz Tracey December 9, 2021 Related links to free scholarly context on JSTOR for the foundational document in American government....
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...
Our Editors’ Favorite Stories of 2020
...2020 Nothing appealed more perfectly to the Romantic sensibility than the mix of horror and awe evoked by a volcano erupting. Puffins Seen Using Tools, Breaking Dumb-Puffin Stereotypes Liz Tracey...
Stories That Got Lost in 2020’s Erratic News Cycle
...after All Jess Romeo September 25, 2020 If we find aliens, chances are they'll be nothing like we ever imagined. Upside-Down Jellyfish and the Mucus of Death Liz Tracey March...