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America Has a Long History of Pitting Politics Against Public Health
It's not just Planned Parenthood—birth control and women’s access to healthcare have been targets of the toxic environment of American political discourse.
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What "The Golden Girls" Taught Me About Bioethics
From HIV stigma to a mansplaining doctor, The Golden Girls discussed it all.
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A Misleading Viral Video Picks a Bad Target: Women Who Donate Fetal Tissue
A deceptive new video accusing Planned Parenthood of “selling baby parts” has gone viral.
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The Best Thing About "Tomorrowland" Is the Spunky Teen Girl Genius
Disney’s Tomorrowland is a feel-good film built around a simple, optimistic idea: If all the dreamers, artists, and geniuses truly pitched in, we humans could work our way out of this current mess of climate change, constant war, and global inequality.
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The Thrilling Adventures of Ada Lovelace Are Now a Lovely Science Comic
Ada Lovelace was a brilliant mathematician. Her mind raced with big ideas on abstract mathematics—in 1843, she wrote what historians regard as the first paper on... Read more »
The 20-Week Abortion Ban Shows How Little Politicians Care About Science
Photo by Sylvia McFadden.
On Wednesday, the House passed a bill that would ban abortion 20 weeks after conception across the United States.
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Popaganda Episode: Women of Science
The world has a long history of excluding women from science and—when women have been able to bust into the male-dominated halls of science—of overlooking their work. But against all odds, women have made astounding contributions to the fields of science, technology,... Read more »
Oh Joy Sex Toy: A New Book About the Science of Sex
Oh Joy Sex Toy is a weekly comics series that graphically explores sex and sexuality. This week, Erika Moen recommends a book about the science of sex.
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A New Book Profiles Female Scientists Who Changed the World
How many female scientists can you name? In a survey a few years ago, 65 percent of Americans couldn’t name a single female scientist. Ouch. A new book will hopefully help fix that... Read more »
Women of Color Working in STEM Fields Are Frequently Mistaken for Janitors
Teenage scientist Alexa Dantzler works in a chemisty lab at Emory University. Photo by Isabelle Saldana.
Almost half of Black and Latina women working as scientists have been mistaken for... Read more »
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