ScienceBrunch

Science Brunch
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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 Mae Prynce [INSERT CAREER HERE].

  1. 20/08/2017

    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!

    36 min

  2. 17/07/2017

    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!

    39 min

  3. 05/07/2017

    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 succeed in the field.

    42 min

  4. 19/06/2017

    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 enemies' names in some of the gross stuff he found in nature.

    43 min

  5. 05/06/2017

    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.

    52 min

  6. 01/05/2017

    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?

    53 min

  7. 17/04/2017

    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.

    51 min

  8. 03/04/2017

    Episode 23 - Barbara McClintock

    Cytogeneticist Barbara McClintock proved chromosomal crossover in meiosis long before anyone in her field understood it.

    44 min
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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 Mae Prynce [INSERT CAREER HERE].

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  • Creator
    Science Brunch
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2017
  • Episodes
    29
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
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  • Show Website
    ScienceBrunch