Shining a Light on Women in STEM with THE CURIE SOCIETY
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Female scientists are incredibly rare in media, but a new comic is here to change that.
The Curie Society shines a light on women in STEM in an exciting kid-focused story. Imagining a world where Marie Curie established a secret society for women in science, the graphic novel centers on the newest recruits. Simone, Maya, and Taj are students at Edmonds University, but after solving a series of complex puzzles they’re inducted into the titular group. It’s an action-packed sci-fi adventure that puts women at the forefront. To celebrate the release, we dug into the process behind the story with its developers, Adam Staffaroni and Heather Einhorn.
CORY TURNER, BYLINE: I m Cory Turner. And this is Shuo.
SHUO PESKOE-YANG: My name is Shuo Peskoe-Yang. And I am a baba (ph) and an organizer. Baba is dad in Mandarin.
TURNER: Shuo lives in Tarrytown, N.Y. And his daughter is now a toddler.
PESKOE-YANG: After my daughter was born, I kind of just started researching, like, what would the world look like in 2100 if we don t do anything? And essentially, you know, it seems like billions of people would die, which was crazy.
TURNER: If we don t do anything, that is, about climate change - and what he you learned kind of freaked him out.
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Distress over global warming is increasing, but formal and informal support networks are springing up, too.
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Feb. 4, 2021
After Britt Wray married in 2017, she and her husband began discussing whether or not they were going to have children. The conversation quickly turned to climate change and to the planet those children might inherit.
“It was very, very heavy,” said Dr. Wray, now a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. “I wasn’t expecting it.” She said she became sad and stressed, crying when she read new climate reports or heard activists speak.