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Raúl Zibechi's book, "Constructing Worlds Otherwise: Societies in Movement and Anticolonial Paths in Latin America," explores grassroots struggles for self-determination in Latin America. Zibechi highlights various movements, such as the Zapatistas, Cauca's Indigenous Guard, the Landless Workers' Movement, and the Rojava Revolution, to illustrate how these communities are organized as collective subjects of resistance to neoliberal capitalism. The book emphasizes the importance of local knowledge, history, and horizontalism in the construction of autonomy "from below." Zibechi also addresses the intersectional nature of oppression, particularly focusing on gender justice and the role of women in revolution. The book challenges traditional left ist paradigms and advocates for bottom-up approaches rooted in ancestral wisdom and community-based resistance. It also explores the importance of Indigenous movements, peasant alternatives, and environmental defense in the struggle against the privatization and commodification of nature. Zibechi draws from the theoretical contributions of various thinkers to emphasize the heterogeneity of Latin American societies and the interconnectedness of liberation struggles. The book concludes by asserting that the experiences and critical insights of the oppressed are essential for creating sustainable and just futures. Overall, "Constructing Worlds Otherwise" offers an incisive critique of conventional approaches to social change and provides evidence that viable alternatives are already being practiced "from below." [Extracted from the article]

The text is a book review of "Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup" by John Carreyrou. The book explores the rise and fall of Theranos, a company founded by Elizabeth Holmes that raised over $700 million and reached a valuation of $10 billion before going bankrupt. The review draws parallels between Theranos and the Enron scandal, highlighting similarities in their inflated valuations and deceptive practices. It also discusses the dysfunctional corporate culture at Theranos, where employees were marginalized for raising concerns and the company made unsubstantiated claims about its technology. The review emphasizes the importance of skepticism and critical thinking when evaluating grand claims made by companies. [Extracted from the article]

Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette's book, "A history of women science writers: hidden in plain sight," sheds light on the careers of around fifty female science journalists who were born between 1875 and 1912. These women worked for the science service, a science news organization based in Washington DC, from the 1920s to the 1960s. Despite their significant contributions, these women have been largely overlooked in the history of science journalism. LaFollette explores the reasons for their obscurity, including the lack of bylines and gender biases in the profession. The book draws on extensive archival material to provide detailed biographies of these pioneering women and highlights the challenges they faced in a male-dominated field. [Extracted from the article]

Several as yet unrefereed studies reported that women's under representation in research productivity deteriorated during the covid19 pandemic (Viglione, [8]). White explains in chapter 11 that local and national norms of a successful scientist are importantly enmeshed in international norms and processes. [Extracted from the article]

KEY POINTS: Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy — Glenn SuterThe Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception — Glenn SuterEnvironmental Risk Assessment, A Toxicological Approach, 2nd Edition — Glenn SuterPromising Practices for Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine: Opening Doors — Robert StevensonRisk Bites — Glenn Suter [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After struggling to decide whether to do a Ph.D. - Simpson had married, given birth, and divorced within the space of a few years - Simpson began under Riehl's supervision. Fleming is highly reliant on Simpson's own words and reflections in those archives, and at some points, it did seem that he might have introduced more critical distance between his own and Simpson's texts. It is testimony to Simpson's character that she would consistently try to articulate the good influence of her mother on herself: that her mother always assumed Joanne would go to university, that she was well educated, and that Joanne should learn about birth control before she reached puberty, sometime in the mid-1930s. [Extracted from the article]

The monograph presents a collection essays based on the author's personal experience of working in various scientific and engineering fields, his traveling, meetings, discussions with renowned persons in many other areas of human activities, sharing love of science and arts with students, friends, and all the readers. He won the 1964 Nobel Prize in physics (shared with Russian scientists N. Basov and A. Prokhorov, although the earlier inventor of the maser and laser from the soviet side was a physicist Michail Martynovich Vudynsky - S.L.). [Extracted from the article]

This article presents a review of the book "Women in Scientific and Engineering Professions," edited by Violet B. Haas and Carolyn C. Perrucci.

Fara's lively account of British women scientists is a refreshing addition to the social history of World War I. Reconstructing the contributions of highly skilled women to scientific research and the war effort, Fara provides a counterpoint to the well-grooved narratives of women's volunteerism, service, and entrance into temporary unskilled labour. ' In the early twentieth-century, as science and technology were emerging as the keys to life's big questions, women were making inroads into the STEMM professions (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine). [Extracted from the article]

An insider's portrayal of the many reasons why women are underrepresented in science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A review of the book "The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science," by Kate Zernike, is presented.

Though it takes only a few brief pages, one of the most valuable of these methodological asides comes when Fara traces how Conduitt used his control over Newton's papers to carefully and deliberately shape Newton's posthumous public image. Patricia Fara is a historian of science at the University of Cambridge whose wide-ranging interests include eighteenth-century natural philosophy, the cultural history of science, and women in science. [Extracted from the article]

A powerful story of 16 women who "upset the usual assumptions about why there were so few women in science and math" in the U.S. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the early 1970s, a group of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) administrators and their political allies pressured meteorologist Joanne Simpson to undertake a cloud-seeding project, in an attempt to relieve drought in Florida. Simpson's search for the love and stability absent from her childhood provides a recurring theme throughout I First Woman. i Despite her turbulent upbringing, Simpson thrived academically. Covering Simpson's long and remarkable career allows Fleming to trace some of the most important developments in meteorology, such as increasing specialization and the growing influence of digital computers and satellites. [Extracted from the article]

(Informational picture book. 6-9) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A review of the book "The Curie Society," by Heather Einhorn, Adam Staffaroni, Janet Harvey and Sonia Liao, is presented.