No guest of honor today. Instead, we talk about some of the interesting happenings in the modern science world. And Katie tells us about her fossil dig!
Aug 20, 2017
35 min
You may have never heard of him, but African-American chemist Percy Lavon Julian is the guy you should thank for your hormonal birth control.
And life is just better when nerds name things!
Jul 17, 2017
39 min
Mary Agnes Chase struggled to begin her career in botany, so when she finally made the big time, she turned around to help other women and minorities succeed in the field.
Jul 5, 2017
41 min
Botanist Carl Linnaeus had a noble goal: to create a new standardized system of naming all living creatures on the planet. But he was only human, after all, and couldn't resist immortalizing his enemies' names in some of the gross stuff he found in nature.
Jun 19, 2017
43 min
Margaret Mead traveled the world to study and compare different cultures, in a quest to find out which parts of us are driven by nature and which by culture.
Jun 5, 2017
52 min
Richard Feynman was a brilliant theoretical physicist who won a Nobel Prize and inspired his younger sister to a career in STEM -- but is he worthy of hero worship?
May 1, 2017
52 min
"Birdman of India" Sálim Ali spent nearly 80 years observing and documenting bird species in India, yet he still considered his research a drop in the bucket.
Apr 17, 2017
50 min
Cytogeneticist Barbara McClintock proved chromosomal crossover in meiosis long before anyone in her field understood it.
Apr 3, 2017
44 min
Qian Xuesen is known as the father of China's missile and space program. He helped transform China into a world-class military power but started his career in the United States, working in the WWII war effort.
Mar 20, 2017
44 min
Vera Rubin's observations of galaxy rotations showed that we can only actually see about 5% of the universe.
Mar 6, 2017
39 min
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