Podcast Episodes

Augustin Jean Fresnel

Augustin Fresnel didn’t live a long life, but he contributed significantly to the understanding of light and to the safety of coastlines. Neither of …

9 months ago

SYMHC Classics: Max von Pettenkofer

This 2020 episode talks about how Pettenkofer's ideas about cholera's spread weren’t exactly right, but they still had really beneficial impacts on t…

9 months, 1 week ago

Behind the Scenes Minis: All Things Clean

Tracy talks about her background writing copy for sanitation and cleaning products. She and Holly also discuss how the implementation of the Wells' r…

9 months, 1 week ago

William Firth Wells and Mildred Weeks Wells

Husband-and-wife team William Firth Wells and Mildred Weeks Wells conducted research that had the potential to make a big difference in the safety of…

9 months, 1 week ago

A History of Soap

All over the world, for all of human history – and probably going back to our earliest hominid ancestors – people have found ways to try to keep them…

9 months, 1 week ago

SYMHC Classics: John Dalton

This 2021 episode covers John Dalton, famous for his work in atomic theory. But he wrote one of the first thorough descriptions of what he called “an…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

Behind the Scenes Minis: Jane and the Clicker

Holly talks about nebulous passages in the writing of Jane Croly and her brother. Tracy and Holly talk about watching TV as children. 

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

TV Remotes

The initial time period where a TV remote control was developed was pretty short. And it shows how two different people perceive their work, and how …

9 months, 2 weeks ago

Jane Cunningham Croly, aka Jennie June

Jane Cunningham Croly, who wrote under the pen name Jennie June, was a journalist who advocated for equality for women. She is most well known for fo…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

SYMHC Classics: Rabies

This 2022 episode discusses how modern rabies prophylaxis is almost 100% effective at preventing human death from the bite of a rabid animal. How did…

9 months, 3 weeks ago