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May 13, 2013 01:09 pm PDT
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A Mother's Day memoir of a scientist who beat theodds
"To become a scientist is hard enough. But to become one while running a gauntlet of lies, insults, mockeries, and disapproval — this was what my mother had to do." Mother's Day was yesterday, but you'll still want to read this fantastic essay from 2002, written by journalist Charles Hirschberg about his mother, geophysicist Joan [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ziNbzDUkXek/story01.htm
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