Foote was never acknowledged as a legitimate climate scientist. That is, until 2011, when Historian Ray Sorenson realized Foote was the first climate scientist to conduct this groundbreaking study, leading us to understand climate change and the steps we must take to save Mother Earth.
Catherine Macaulay spoke up for women. She condemned the treatment of women, advocating for women’s rights and…
I have good hope that there is something after death. This is a quote by Plato that I chose to use for the first chapter of my recently published book, Hypatia: The Sum of Her Life. This quote is so profound to me because her legacy continued to live on after Hypatia’s death. Some were negative, some were propaganda, and
Hipparchus was one of the first mathematicians who trigonometrically defined his astronomical observations through stereographic projection …
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In June 2022, Emma Haruka Iwao determined the value of pi to 100 trillion digits! When Archimedes first determined this value, his was only three digits. His life…
Though she was Voltaire’s lover, she did not love him nearly as much as she loved …
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If you could travel through time, where would you want to go?!
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In ancient history, Rome had a few female contemporaries in science that forged a path for women in STEM!
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When the mercurial Girolamo Cardano met the hot-tempered Lodovico Ferrari, it sparked a successful working relationship that ended in death! Who murdered Ferrari?
When fifteenth century math became diabolically competitive!