Babes of Science Poncie Rutsch
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A podcast about women's work in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics.
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Susan La Flesche Picotte
Susan La Flesche was the first Native American to earn a medical degree. She proceeded to become the physician for the Omaha Nation, traveling by horse and buggy to care for a community spread across an area the size of Rhode Island.
Babes of Science is a podcast that seeks to answer two questions: Who are the women who changed the trajectory of science? And why has it taken us so long to recognize their work?
Image courtesy of the Nebraska State Historical Society Photograph Collections.
Music in this episode:
Chance, Luck, Errors in Nature, Fate, Destruction As a Finale by Chris Zabriskie
Violins And Tea (Instrumental) by Loch Lomond
Young, Tough And Terrible by The Losers
Third in Line by Blue Dot Sessions
Slow Strutt by Blue Dot Sessions
Keep The Prices Down by Podington Bear
Ice Cream Sandwich by Podington Bear
Periodicals by Blue Dot Sessions
Cedarleaf by Rho -
Lady Ranelagh
Every early chemist has heard of Boyle’s law -- the equation that relates a gas’s pressure to its volume. But even if you have some awareness of Robert Boyle himself, it’s unlikely that you’ve heard of his sister...even though she was probably talking him through his ideas, either in person or by letter.
This episode of Babes of Science was produced in collaboration with Distillations Podcast.
Babes of Science is a podcast that seeks to answer two questions: Who are the women who changed the trajectory of science? And why has it taken us so long to recognize their work?
Music in this episode:
Theme: Showers by Podington Bear
Day Into Night by Rho
Daydream Shelshock by Wolf Asylum
Am I The Devil YEYEY
History Explains Itself by The Losers
Like Swimming Broke For Free
Insatiable Toad by Blue Dot Sessions
One And by Broke For Free
Modulation of the Spirit
Melt by Broke For Free
Eleanor by The Losers
I Am A Man Who Will Fight For Your Honor by Chris Zabriskie
Tidal Wave by YEYEY -
Marguerite Perey
Marguerite Perey identified a new element called Francium while she was working in the Curie laboratory. So why don't we know her name?
MUSIC:
Mile Post 1 by Alex Fitch
Drifting Spade by Blue Dot Sessions
Building The Sun by Broke For Free
Biolumina L2 by Little Glass Men
History Explains Itself by The Losers
Summer Spliffs by Broke For Free -
Henrietta Lacks
Henrietta Lacks developed an aggressive form of cervical cancer, and died at the age of 31. The cells from the tumor on her cervix, however, are still alive today. More than twenty tons of her cells have grown in labs, participating in disease research for the polio vaccine and for AIDS treatment. And Henrietta's cells have literally traveled to space and back.
MUSIC:
Secret Place by Alex Fitch
Kelp Grooves by Little Glass Men
Love is Not by Broke For Free
Tiptoe (Instrumental) by YEYEY
Is That You Or Are You You? Chris Zabriskie
Deadpanned by Jahzzar
With Many Tears by Candlegravity
Stakes and Things by Blue Dot Sessions
Melt by Broke for Free -
Bertha Pappenheim/Anna O.
Bertha Pappenheim was spending each night by her sick father's bed when she began hallucinating. Josef Breuer would diagnose her with hysteria and spend two years practicing "the talking cure." He and Sigmund Freud later published her account as a case study under the name Anna O.
To support the show, head to patreon.com/babesofscience. Or visit babesofscience.com for more information on Babes of Science. You can also follow @babescience on twitter for fun facts about women in science history.
Music in this episode:
Dream Blaze by Little Glass Men
Delta by Podington Bear
Slow Slow Sky by Blue Dot Sessions
From Here to Iceland (Full) by Loch Lomond
A Suicide by Candlegravity
You Bastard! by The Losers
Daydreamer by Podington Bear
Jupiter The Blue by Gillicuddy
The Temperature on the Bow of the Kaleetan by Chis Zabriskie
How it Fades by Scott Gratton
Be Mine and Be Kind (Instrumental) by Loch Lomond
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Irène Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie found that radioactivity wasn't just something to be found in the earth's elements -- scientists could make other metals radioactive. And then her research took her right up to nuclear fission...and World War II.
To support the show, head to patreon.com/babesofscience. Or visit babesofscience.com for more information on Babes of Science. You can also follow @babescience on twitter for fun facts about women in science history.
Music in this episode:
Thematic by Blue Dot Sessions
Divider by Chris Zabriskie
John Stockton Slow Drag by Chris Zabriskie
Frog Legs Rag by James Scott from 1906 piano roll
Keep The Prices Down by Podington Bear
Morning Mist by Podington Bear
The Zeppelin by Blue Dot Sessions
Beachhead by Podington Bear
Grand Fell by Blue Dot Sessions
Because You Hold Me Tight by Alex Fitch