Today we are all too familiar with the concept of greenhouse gasses and global warming, but almost 170 years ago, an American woman gave us a distant early warning that went unnoticed. Eunice Newton Foote was a women's rights activist and amateur scientist, overlooked for centuries. — Read the rest
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