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Although the twentieth century finds male practitioners firmly in control of formal Western medicine, women doctors and healers still have important inventions and innovations to their credit. For example, although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness. Women had discovered the mold’s usefulness centuries or perhaps millennia earlier (Halsbury 1971, p. 19; Raper 1952, p. 1), and one nineteenth-century Wisconsin woman, Elizabeth Stone, an early antibi otic therapist, specialized in treating lumberjacks’ wounds with poultices of moldy bread in warm milk or water: she never lost an injury patient (Stellman 1977, p. 87). In the twentieth-century development of the drug, it was a woman bacteriologist, Dr. Elizabeth McCoy of the University of Wisconsin, who created the ultraviolet-mutant strain of Penicillium used for all further production, since it yielded nine hundred times as much penicillin as Fleming’s strain (Bickel 1972, p. 185; O’Neill 1979, p. 219).4 And as Howard Florey, leader of the British penicillin team, was quick to point out, it was Dr. Ethel Florey’s precise clinical trials that transformed penicillin from a crude some time miracle worker into a reliable drug. It was also a woman, Nobel laureate and X-ray crystallographer Dr. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who finally deter mined the precise structure of the elusive penicillin molecule (Bickel 1972, p. 216; Opfell 1978, pp. 211, 219). Women were also involved in developing the sulfa drugs that preceded penicillin. For instance, it was a married pair of chemists, Prof. and Mme. Tréfouėl, and their colleagues at the Pasteur Institute in Paris who split red azo dye to create sulfanilamide (Bickel 1972, p. 50). At least two women have invented new antibiotics for which they receive sole credit. Dr. Odette Shotwell of Denver, Colorado, came up with two new antibiotics—duramycin and azacolutin—during her fi…

reminder of cryptogyny, the hiding of women's contributions to science, technology, engineering, and medicine:
"although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness."

www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...

linguistics.

Kopf eines Hais, man sieht Nase/Schnauze, Augen und das leicht geöffnete Maul. Es wirkt als würde der Hai schockiertes Side Eye machen.

um eure häuser warm zu halten nutzt ihr … HAIzungen???

Syntaxbaum des Tages just dropped

Now they league with the likes of “staycation”, “snowpocalypse”, and “stagflation”. The affixes have been liberated.

Call it what you want—Affixgate, Affexit, Affixception—but in linguistics these rogue word parts are known as *libfixes* (liberated affixes).

Cartoonish drawings of silly cardinals sitting on the vowels a, e, i, o, and u. Their shapes mimic diagrams of vowel tongue positions. The referenced diagram can be found on Wikipedia- source: Jones, Daniel. (1972) An outline of English phonetics (9th ed.).

I was listening to the podcast @lingthusiasm.com and was suddenly struck by inspiration that I HAD to get out IMMEDIATELY. So without further ado, may I present.......

Cardinal Vowels

Screenshot of the etymology of the German word Uhu on the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache website

In addition to the standard word Uhu, German names for the Eurasian eagle-owl have included Schuhu, Huhu and Buhu, and I'll be damned if there are better owl names out there.

Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Grrr.. die armen Milliardäre.. ich meine, was wenn sie sich keinen neunten Porsche leisten können? Da muss die Regierung natürlich nachsichtig sein.. (Ich kann das alles nicht mehr..)

Gaslighting at its finest.

Jede Diskussion mit einem Mann über meinen Körper verkürzt mein Leben um 161 Minuten.