FLASHCARDS! The Power of Diversity

Today’s three flash­cards look at three sci­en­tists whose work fun­da­men­tal­ly changed their fields. They worked in dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines, lived in dif­fer­ent eras, and faced dif­fer­ent obsta­cles. What con­nects them is not sym­bol­ism or rep­re­sen­ta­tion. What con­nects them is that their dif­fer­ences expand­ed what sci­ence was able to see and solve. Sci­en­tif­ic progress rarely arrives because a com­mu­ni­ty agrees. It arrives because

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FLASHCARD FRIDAYS: Charles Darwin, the lost boy

FLASHCARD FRIDAYS: Charles Darwin, the lost boy

It’s FLASHCARDS FRIDAY at Math! Sci­ence! His­to­ry! and I’m Gabrielle Bir­chak. I have a back­ground in math sci­ence and jour­nal­ism. It’s offi­cial­ly sum­mer. Some pro­fes­sors are on break. And if you’re not in acad­e­mia you are like­ly plan­ning your vaca­tions or sum­mer activ­i­ties. So, this sum­mer Math! Sci­ence! His­to­ry! is going to have a spe­cial vaca­tion series, because it’s nice

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