Episode 30 - Science News Roundup
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!
20 Aug 201735min
Episode 29 - Percy Lavon Julian
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!
17 Juli 201739min
Episode 27 - Carl Linnaeus
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 enemi...
19 Juni 201743min
Episode 26 - Margaret Mead
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.
5 Juni 201752min
Episode 25 - Richard Feynman
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?
1 Maj 201752min
Episode 24 - Sálim Ali
"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.
17 Apr 201750min
Episode 23 - Barbara McClintock
Cytogeneticist Barbara McClintock proved chromosomal crossover in meiosis long before anyone in her field understood it.
3 Apr 201744min
