Podcast Episodes

Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton

Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton is known as one of the earliest Mexican-American authors published in English, and her life story is tied closely to the …

11 months, 2 weeks ago

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 …

11 months, 2 weeks 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…

11 months, 2 weeks 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…

11 months, 3 weeks 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…

11 months, 3 weeks 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…

11 months, 3 weeks 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…

11 months, 3 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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11 months, 4 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 …

11 months, 4 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…

1 year ago