Author Archive: K M Pohlkamp

Engineers, Authors, and Assassins – Thriving in a Nontraditional Field

Men have accomplished most “firsts” in history, but there are some notable exceptions. A woman invented Kevlar. A woman discovered pulsars. A woman wrote the first computer program. More surprisingly, the world’s first serial killer belonged to the more “fragile” and “demure” gender. I first came across that fact last fall: the world’s first serial […]