Margaret W. Rossiter didn’t just study history—she reshaped it. In 1993, she named a truth that had been hidden in plain sight for centuries: the Matilda Effect—the systematic erasure of women’s achievements in science. She named it after suffragist and abolitionist Matilda Joslyn Gage, who had raised the alarm more than a hundred years before. […]

“Tonight, we went out to eat at Cracker Barrel. As we were almost finished, we noticed an elderly woman sitting all alone, drinking a milk and waiting for her meal. A million thoughts went through my mind. She looked so very lonely…Is she widowed? Where is her family? Why is she at a restaurant at […]

A few nights ago, our newest 12-year-old mama at Village of Hope gave birth to her beautiful baby boy. After so many times in the delivery room, there’s one sound etched into my heart—one I’ve heard again and again from the girls we’ve cared for: a desperate cry out for their mother. The very mother […]

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In 1841, on the island of Réunion, a 12-year-old boy named Edmond Albius solved a botanical mystery that had eluded experts for years, forever changing the future of flavor. French colonists had introduced vanilla orchids from Mexico, but the plants wouldn’t bear fruit. In Mexico, specific bees pollinated the flowers, but on Réunion, without those […]