Literary Gifts

Alice Ball, pioneering chemist and developer of the first effective treatment for leprosy, is celebrated in our new hard enamel pin, the first in our Women in Science series.

Alice Ball developed a method for isolating the beneficial compounds from the oil of the chaulmoogra seed (pictured in this pin), creating an extract that became the preferred method for treating leprosy.

This pin comes with a fold-out card with Alice's story.

50% of profits from this pin go to:

• Black Girls Code
• DIY Girls
• ChickTech

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, pioneering computer scientist and educator, is celebrated in our new hard enamel pin, the second in our Women in Science series.

As one of the first computer programmers, Hopper used binary code to program the Mark I computer. But she had a vision for a better way: She created the first computer language that used words to tell computers what to do. 

Hopper also dedicated her life to educating people about how computers work. She always carried “nanosecond wires” with her to use in her lectures. These 11.8” (30cm) wires represented the maximum distance a signal can travel in 1 billionth of a second. This pin is a wearable version of her nanosecond wires: The white line on the pin is 11.8” long.

(To fit a light-nanosecond into a small space, we made it into a pattern called a “labyrinth.”)

This 24k gold-plated pin comes with a fold-out card with Hopper's story.

50% of profits from this pin go to:

• Black Girls Code
• DIY Girls
• ChickTech

Elegant enough for the dining room and perfect for a classroom, these posters are conversation starters. Each poster features art designed by great works of literature. Litographs posters are printed on archival, vinyl-infused paper that is tear-resistant, water-resistant, and long-lasting. These prints measure 12x16 inches, including the mat, and come ready to frame.