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!

Episode 30 - Science News Roundup

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!

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.<br><br>And life is just better when nerds name things!

Episode 29 - Percy Lavon Julian

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.

Episode 28 - Mary Agnes Chase

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.

Episode 27 - Carl Linnaeus

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.

Episode 26 - Margaret Mead

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?

Episode 25 - Richard Feynman

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.

Episode 24 - Sálim Ali

Barbara McClintock

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

Episode 23 - Barbara McClintock

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 career in the United States, working in the WWII war effort.

Episode 22 - Qian Xuesen

Vera Rubin's observations of galaxy rotations showed that we can only actually see about 5% of the universe.

Episode 21 - Vera Rubin

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].

After leading the United States' successful scientific effort to become the first nation to develop the atomic bomb, Robert Oppenheimer spent the rest of his life advocating for international arms control.

Episode 20 - J. Robert Oppenheimer

German mathematician Emmy Noether came up with theorems to elegantly describe the workings of the universe.

Episode 19 - Emmy Noether

Omar Khayyam

Persian mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyam created a calendar that lasted 1000 years, but the Western world only remembers him for his depressing poetry.

Episode 18 - Omar Khayyam

Yvonne Brill

Yvonne Brill was a brilliant rocket scientist whose work made modern satellite and spacecraft missions possible. However, most people only know about her because of one terribly sexist obituary.

Episode 17 - Yvonne Brill

Jacques Cousteau started out as a bit of a careless sea explorer, but became a conscientious conservationist and revered science communicator.

Episode 16 - Jacques Cousteau

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 about her is the tongue-twister she inspired, not her contributions to paleontology or even her name.

Episode 15 - Mary Anning

Things computer scientist and US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper kept in her purse: wallet, tissues, lip balm, and a bundle of nanoseconds.

Episode 14 - Grace Hopper

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 Nobel Prize.

Episode 13 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal

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 12 - Sara Josephine Baker

Nikola Tesla was a great inventor overflowing with amazing ideas, but he wasn't very successful in business.

Episode 11 - Nikola Tesla

being introduced to so many scientists (as a scientist and brunch-enthusiast myself) is wonderful! i hope there’ll be more episodes soon!

AMAZING

This podcast is informal and fun, but surprisingly information rich!

Really fun!

ScienceBrunch

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.

Episode 4 - Albert Einstein

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 ... figured out the structure of DNA.

Episode 3 - Rosalind Franklin

Katherine G. Johnson

One of NASA's original computers is turning 98 this summer. Her name is Katherine Johnson!

Episode 10 - Katherine G. Johnson

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 than ever before!

Episode 9 - Jane Goodall

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 5 - Gregor Mendel

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 6 - Ada Lovelace

The Roman Catholic Church wasn't fond of many of Galileo's ideas, but he didn't let that stop him.

Episode 7 - Galileo Galilei

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