Feminism
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2025
2 articles- Who Do We Imagine When We Read ‘Die Lehrer’? German masculine role nouns can be intended to include everyone, yet experiments often find men more readily available in readers’ responses. What those experiments measure, why alternative forms differ, and where the evidence stops before claims about equality or the perfect spelling.
- Twenty-Five Stars and the Scale of the Universe Henrietta Leavitt found a relation between the periods and brightnesses of twenty-five variable stars. Reconstructing her 1912 data shows why a shared distance makes the discovery possible, why a calibration is still missing, and why measuring photographic plates was intellectual work rather than a preliminary step before the science began.