Like millions of other Americans, astronaut Kate Rubins voted early in the 2020 election. Unlike her fellow citizens, however, Kate’s feet weren’t exactly on American soil. Kate is a flight engineer on Expedition 64, part of a three-person crew which launched from southern Kazakhstan on Oct. 14 (her 42nd birthday) …
Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in on Oct. 26, 2020 to occupy the Supreme Court seat of the recently deceased Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She brings to the Supreme Court, through her writings, judicial opinions, associations and actions, a history of anti-reproductive rights opinions, including against choice and IVF and anti-LGBTQ …
She was just 19 when she wrote her classic horror novel during a rainy, claustrophobic summer in Switzerland in 1816. But what Mary Godwin Shelley created in her half-dead monster Frankenstein would haunt reader’s imaginations for centuries to come. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born in London in 1797. Her mother, …
Purple hippos, pastel pink pigs and adorably sweet, not-scary-at-all monsters are what illustrator and author Sandra Boynton is best known for. But did you know that the woman who began designing greeting cards to earn money in college also has a Grammy nomination to her famous name? It’s just one …
Leslie Knope is a relentlessly cheerful, hardworking, and optimistic civil servant who really, really, really believes in the ideals of democracy. She uses her seemingly limitless energy to try and make the world a better place, despite the resistance of those around her. As she says “There’s nothing we can’t …
The first pitch of the first live professional baseball game to be broadcast on ESPN this season came on May 5 via satellite from South Korea. It was an unconventional start to a never-before season that was put on pause in the United States due to the Covid-19 pandemic. At …
Some of history’s famous female feuds have turned ugly. From verbal lashings — Joan Crawford and Bette Davis sniped at each other for over 40 years. To assault — Tonya Harding had Nancy Kerrigan kneecapped. To the drastic — Queen Elizabeth I had her rival Mary Queen of Scots beheaded. …
It was a short paragraph in her sorority’s alumni booklet that shined a light on one of America’s leading mathematicians whose work, like that of so many accomplished Black women, was hidden away for decades. Its impact, however, is felt every time you ask Siri for directions, tag a photo …
A mother tenderly bathing her child. A mother holding her baby in her arms. A mother hugging her child. Although Mary Cassatt declared herself unsuited to marriage, her paintings of women and their domestic life are among her most enduring. As a leading figure in the Impressionist movement these works …
The Go Go’s made history as the first all-female band to have a debut album reach No. 1. Thirty-eight years later, they still make us wanna dance.