ScienceBrunch
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ScienceBrunch
Science Brunch is a podcast that features irreverent but mostly factual conversation about famous scientists and their discoveries, recent scientific events, and random science-y stuff. It is hosted by friendly neighborhood weirdos Katie McKissick (Beatrice the Biologist; science communicator) and M...
Recent Episodes
30 episodes
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 di...
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.
Episode 28 - Mary Agnes Chase
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...
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, afte...
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 c...
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...
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...
Episode 23 - Barbara McClintock
Cytogeneticist Barbara McClintock proved chromosomal crossover in meiosis long before anyone in her field understood it.
Episode 22 - Qian Xuesen
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 c...
Episode 21 - Vera Rubin
Vera Rubin's observations of galaxy rotations showed that we can only actually see about 5% of the universe.
Episode 20 - J. Robert Oppenheimer
After leading the United States' successful scientific effort to become the first nation to develop the atomic bomb, Robert Oppenheimer spent the rest...
Episode 19 - Emmy Noether
German mathematician Emmy Noether came up with theorems to elegantly describe the workings of the universe.
Episode 18 - Omar Khayyam
Persian mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyam created a calendar that lasted 1000 years, but the Western world only remembers him for his depressi...
Episode 17 - Yvonne Brill
Yvonne Brill was a brilliant rocket scientist whose work made modern satellite and spacecraft missions possible. However, most people only know about...
Episode 16 - Jacques Cousteau
Jacques Cousteau started out as a bit of a careless sea explorer, but became a conscientious conservationist and revered science communicator.
Episode 15 - Mary Anning
In her time, Mary Anning was known as the go-to person if you wanted an interesting fossil from the Jurassic period. But the most many people know abo...
Episode 14 - Grace Hopper
Things computer scientist and US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper kept in her purse: wallet, tissues, lip balm, and a bundle of nanoseconds.
Episode 13 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Santiago Ramón y Cajal is considered the "father of modern neuroscience" for his study and illustration of neurons -- work for which he was awarded a...
Episode 12 - Sara Josephine Baker
Sara Josephine Baker saved hundreds of thousands of infant lives with a basic concept: start treating them BEFORE they start dying. Revolutionary!
Episode 11 - Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was a great inventor overflowing with amazing ideas, but he wasn't very successful in business.
Episode 10 - Katherine G. Johnson
One of NASA's original computers is turning 98 this summer. Her name is Katherine Johnson!
Episode 9 - Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall has made a scientific career of patiently waiting and watching. Thanks to her, we've learned more about chimpanzees in the past 50 years...
Episode 8 - Jonas Salk
It's the first day of summer, so why aren't you worried about a polio outbreak in your neighborhood? You can thank Jonas Salk for your peace of mind!
Episode 7 - Galileo Galilei
The Roman Catholic Church wasn't fond of many of Galileo's ideas, but he didn't let that stop him.
Episode 6 - Ada Lovelace
The first computer wasn't built until the mid-20th century, but that didn't stop Ada Lovelace from writing the first computer program in 1842!
Episode 5 - Gregor Mendel
Which scientist was the best cook? Our bet's on Gregor Mendel who certainly had a killer split-pea soup recipe. Sometimes, science is delicious!
Episode 4 - Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was (is!) a big deal, but why exactly? If your answer is "something-something-ummm....relativity?", you should probably listen to this...
Episode 3 - Rosalind Franklin
You've heard of Watson and Crick, but what about Rosalind Franklin? Without her, those guys might not have won the Nobel Prize, or you know ... figure...
Episode 2 - Charles Darwin
Good ol' Charlie Darwin knew his theory of natural selection would just make the world explode. It made him a nervous guy.
Episode 1 - Marie Curie
Marie Curie was a badass woman scientist. Who knows how much more she could've accomplished if she'd had more support ... or less radiation poisoning.