• Madsciencemama highlights a New Yorker excerpt about Virginia Apgar, who became a doctor in 1933 and revolutionized how doctors looked at newborn children.
• You should sign this petition encouraging Congress to end “drive-thru mastectomies.” Notyourwoman has the details.
• The National Center for Women and Information Technology unveils “turnkey” (I hate that word) best practices for companies and institutions to mentor and support women in IT.
• Women inventors registered three patents for military technology, 11 electrical patents and 633 mechanical patents from 1808 to 1895, according to this handy index.

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