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Babes of Science

A podcast about women's work in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics.

Ranked #1

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Ep4: Hedy Lamarr

Ep4: Hedy Lamarr

Babes of Science is a podcast about women who made an impact in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. Learn ... Read more

13 Nov 2015

9mins

Ranked #2

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Ep3: Tilly Edinger

Ep3: Tilly Edinger

Babes of Science is a podcast about women who made an impact in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. Learn ... Read more

13 Oct 2015

9mins

Ranked #3

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Ep6: Florence Nightingale

Ep6: Florence Nightingale

IN THIS EPISODE Poncie talks about Florence Nightingale, who changed nursing from a field where ladies would hunt for hu... Read more

19 Jan 2016

11mins

Ranked #4

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Ep8: Nettie Stevens

Ep8: Nettie Stevens

Once upon a time, everything from timing to the temperature at conception could get blamed for the sex of a baby. Even t... Read more

18 Mar 2016

9mins

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Rita Levi-Montalcini

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Rita Levi-Montalcini worked with homemade tools in her bedroom laboratory when she and her family were forced into hidin... Read more

13 Dec 2016

16mins

Ranked #6

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Irène Joliot-Curie

Irène Joliot-Curie

Irène Joliot-Curie found that radioactivity wasn't just something to be found in the earth's elements -- scientists coul... Read more

24 Jan 2017

17mins

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Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace defined modern computing and wrote the first computer program...for an imaginary machine. Because the compu... Read more

4 Oct 2016

15mins

Ranked #8

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Margaret Cavendish

Margaret Cavendish

Margaret Cavendish used her writing to debate philosophy with some of the great thinkers of the scientific revolution. A... Read more

3 Jan 2017

13mins

Ranked #9

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Babes Alive: Brittany Bushnell

Babes Alive: Brittany Bushnell

Imagine you're a PhD student, just getting started. And you realize you can't hear anything out of one ear, and THEN you... Read more

15 Nov 2016

16mins

Ranked #10

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Ep7: Alice Ball

Ep7: Alice Ball

IN THIS EPISODE Poncie talks about Alice Ball, who found one of the first treatments for leprosy. After Alice Ball's met... Read more

22 Feb 2016

8mins

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