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Tag: Science

February 23, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

The Forest in the Sea, a guest post by Anita Sanchez

The more I researched the bewildering problems facing our planet, the more I kept bumping into an unlikely hero—seaweed.

September 19, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

Reforging Creativity, a guest post by Jay Hosler

Santiago Ramon y Cajal is my hero. He took art and science and he reforged them into a single creative endeavor. He helped unlock some of the fundamental mysteries of our dragon-imagining brains with inventive ingenuity and artist flair.

October 28, 2021 by Amanda MacGregor

When Truth Beats Fiction, a guest post by Alex Perry

I thought I was setting the story just barely beyond our current technology to hook my readers with cutting-edge science. I didn’t expect for science to surpass my book before it came out, but I’ve never been happier to be wrong.

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Fun Fiction can Sell STEM, a guest post by Susan McCormick

May 6, 2021 by Amanda MacGregor

Young people are interested in science. Children’s authors and books with engrossing STEM stories can encourage this interest.

Book Review: The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science by Joyce Sidman

February 15, 2018 by Amanda MacGregor

Publisher’s description Bugs, of all kinds, were considered to be “born of mud” and to be “beasts of the devil.” Why would anyone, let alone a girl, want to study and observe them? One of the first naturalists to observe live insects directly, Maria Sibylla Merian was also one of the first to document the […]

Breaking Barriers: Wonder Woman and the Bold Women of Medicine, a guest post by Susan M. Latta

September 14, 2017 by Amanda MacGregor

Wonder Woman is a strong female comic book character but there is more to her than muscle. She boldly and intelligently outsmarted her enemies. When Warner Bros./DC Comics blockbuster movie Wonder Woman came out earlier this summer I began to think about the characteristics shared between Wonder Woman and the women in my YA nonfiction […]

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Book Review: Bold Women of Medicine: 21 Stories of Astounding Discoveries, Daring Surgeries, and Healing Breakthroughs by Susan M. Latta

September 14, 2017 by Amanda MacGregor

Publisher’s description Meet 21 determined women who have dedicated their lives to healing others. In the 19th century, Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton—the “Lady with the Lamp” and the “Angel of the Battlefield”—earned their nicknames by daring to enter battlefields to aid wounded soldiers, forever changing the standards of medicine. Modern-day medical heroines such as […]

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