Augustin Jean Fresnel
Augustin Fresnel didn’t live a long life, but he contributed significantly to the understanding of light and to the safety of coastlines. Neither of those had anything to do with his career. Research:...
15 Sep 202536min
SYMHC Classics: Max von Pettenkofer
This 2020 episode talks about how Pettenkofer's ideas about cholera's spread weren’t exactly right, but they still had really beneficial impacts on the way we live.See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...
13 Sep 202531min
Behind the Scenes Minis: All Things Clean
Tracy talks about her background writing copy for sanitation and cleaning products. She and Holly also discuss how the implementation of the Wells' recommendations could have prevented a lot of illnes...
12 Sep 202529min
William Firth Wells and Mildred Weeks Wells
Husband-and-wife team William Firth Wells and Mildred Weeks Wells conducted research that had the potential to make a big difference in the safety of indoor air. But it didn’t really have a significan...
10 Sep 202546min
A History of Soap
All over the world, for all of human history – and probably going back to our earliest hominid ancestors – people have found ways to try to keep themselves clean. But how did soap come about? Researc...
8 Sep 202539min
SYMHC Classics: John Dalton
This 2021 episode covers John Dalton, famous for his work in atomic theory. But he wrote one of the first thorough descriptions of what he called “anomalous vision” – he realized he wasn’t perceiving ...
6 Sep 202534min
Behind the Scenes Minis: Jane and the Clicker
Holly talks about nebulous passages in the writing of Jane Croly and her brother. Tracy and Holly talk about watching TV as children. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
5 Sep 202530min
TV Remotes
The initial time period where a TV remote control was developed was pretty short. And it shows how two different people perceive their work, and how that work is perceived differently over time by the...
3 Sep 202542min
