Mind
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BETTY DODSON MADE FEMALE MASTURBATION A FEMINIST ACT
She did not ask women to become more desirable. She taught them that their pleasure belonged to them.…
Who Is Alice Ball?
She was 23 when she made the first leprosy treatment that worked. She was 24 when she died.…
The Promise She Kept for Seventy Years
Gloria Steinem died on 2 September, at ninety-two. She spent her life doing what a London doctor asked…
The Speed of Knowing
New neuroscience suggests intuition isn’t a shortcut around thinking — it might be how thinking starts. Here’s what…
Bestabé Espinal Worked Barefoot
She was 23, earned a fraction of what the men beside her did, and shut down the factory.…
Where Beauty meets Smart.The Story of Hedy Lamarr: Hollywood adored her face. History needed her mind.By Teona Abuladze · 8 min read
Picture a dinner table in Austria in the mid-1930s.According to accounts of Hedy Lamarr’s first marriage, her husband’s…
50 Years of Shamed Silence
Kim Hak-sun was seventeen when the Japanese army took her. She was sixty-seven when she finally said so…
La Pola: The Seamstress Who Spied on an Empire
Colombia put her face on its money and its monuments. It remembers how she died at twenty-two —…
Kepler Asked. Newton Argued. She Answered.
Maryna Viazovska cracked a problem Kepler posed in 1611, became the second woman ever to win mathematics’ highest…
She Invented Monopoly to Warn Us About Greed. A Man Sold It as a Celebration of It.
Elizabeth Magie patented the game in 1904. Thirty years later a salesman put his name on it, made…