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The Devil in the Details - Chapter Five
It’s September 2024 and a group of American thalidomide survivors arrive in Washington D.C. to lobby the government for support. More than 60 years h…
2 years ago
The Devil in the Details - Chapter Four
It’s the summer of 1962 and thalidomide has been off the market in Europe for months. But in the U.S., people are only just beginning to find out abo…
2 years ago
The Devil in the Details - Chapter Three
It’s 1961 and Widukind Lenz, a German pediatrician, is going door to door in his efforts to find out what is causing the epidemic of babies born with…
2 years ago
The Devil in the Details - Chapter Two
It’s the early 1960s and the German pharmaceutical market is booming. A sedative called Contergan is one of the bestselling drugs. Contergan’s active…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Devil in the Details - Chapter One
In this first chapter of a new five-part season we meet Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, a physician and pharmacologist who joined the U.S. Food and Drug A…
2 years, 1 month ago
Trailer: The Devil in the Details
In the 1950s, a German drug company developed a new sedative that was supposed to be 100% safe: thalidomide. So safe, in fact, it was promoted to wom…
2 years, 1 month ago
In the 1920s, female writers pioneered the field of science writing for the mass market, making it their mission to help ordinary people understand everything from astronomy to venereal disease.
In the 1920s, when newspapers and magazines started to showcase stories about science, many of the early science journalists were women, working alon…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Quest for Everything
By the second half of the 20th century, physicists were on a mission to find the ultimate building blocks of the universe. What you get when you zoom…
2 years, 2 months ago
Dr. Jess Wade, Physicist and Wikipedia Maven
Dr. Jess Wade is a physicist at Imperial College London who’s made it her mission to write and update the Wikipedia pages of as many women in STEM as…
2 years, 2 months ago
Lost Women of Science Conversations: The Exceptions
Dr. Nancy Hopkins, a molecular biologist who made major discoveries in cancer genetics, became an unlikely activist in her early fifties. She had alw…
2 years, 3 months ago