SciGirls Extraordinaire | Jacquelyn Gill

Jacquelyn Gill, a Ph.D. candidate in Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has analyzed lake deposits in Wisconsin and New York to come up with some new data and thinking on large-animal extinction in North America.

Her research is pretty complex, but a recent New York Times article gives a great synopsis.

Kudos to Gill and her research mates at UW Madison. We expect a long and distinguished career from this SciGirl!

Smart Pet Investigations

OK, this is a silly post, but it's Friday, so here goes!

Years ago DragonflyTV shot a segment in which 3 girls tried to determine if their cats were left of right-pawed. (It's still a pretty cute episode: Pick a Paw by Cleo, Brittany, and Molly)

Meanwhile, SciGirls thinks they might have been asking the wrong research question. Perhaps a better inquiry might be: "Is your cat an ambidextrous piano player?"