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The Weather Expert Who Answered the $64,000 Question
In the mid-1940s, a teenage June Bacon-Bercey saw the image of a nuclear explosion on the cover of Time magazine and immediately had questions. How w…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Florence Nightingale and her Geeks Declare War on Death
In this episode from the Cautionary Tales podcast, Harford teams up with actor Helena Bonham Carter, a distant relative of Florence Nightingale, to t…
10 months ago
Lost Women of Science Conversations: Air-borne
Air-Borne: the Hidden History of the Air We Breathe by Carl Zimmer charts the history of the field of aerobiology: the science dealing with airborne…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Buried History: The Feminist Birth of the Home Pregnancy Test
Today, we take it for granted that you can buy a home pregnancy test at the pharmacy. Before the end of the 1970s, this was not the case. Then along …
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Lost Women of Science Conversations: The Elements of Marie Curie
In The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science Dava Sobel celebrates the many women who came to Paris to work…
11 months, 1 week ago
In Evangelina's Footsteps | 5
After Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo died in 1947, the Trujillo regime did its best to erase her legacy, while at the same time appropriating her ideas.…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Siguiendo los pasos de Evangelina | 5
Tras la muerte de Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo en 1947, el régimen de Trujillo hizo todo lo posible no solo por borrar su legado, sino también por apr…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
El dictador y la doctora | 4
En 1930, Rafael Leónidas Trujillo toma el poder en la República Dominicana e instaura un reino de terror. El controvertido trabajo de Evangelina la p…
1 year ago
The Dictator and the Doctor | 4
In 1930, Rafael Leónidas Trujillo seized power in the Dominican Republic and introduced a reign of terror. Evangelina’s controversial work brought he…
1 year ago
El retorno de la doctora rebelde | 3
Evangelina recibió una calurosa bienvenida de regreso a su país, y se pone a trabajar de inmediato, introduciendo sus nuevas ideas sobre la atención …
1 year ago