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Dr. Henry K. Beecher: The Placebo Effect
Episode 59
Your mind can be a powerful drug, but when (if ever) is it ethical to choose mind over matter? Aarati tells the story of an army doctor who observed …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Dr. Carlos Finlay: The Mosquito Man
Episode 58
Yellow fever killed thousands of people in the 1800s but no one understood how it spread. Aarati tells the story of the Cuban doctor who discovered t…
5 months ago
Dr. John B. Goodenough: Lithium-ion Batteries
Episode 57
From laptops to cell phones to electric cars, our modern world runs on lithium-ion batteries. Aarati tells the story of one of the scientists who won…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Dr. Tetsuya "Ted" Fujita: Mr. Tornado
Episode 56
On June 24, 1975, Eastern Airlines 66 mysteriously crashed when attempting to land at JFK airport. Authorities called in Mr. Tornado to investigate. …
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Dr. Alice Stewart: The Anti-Radiation Activist (Part II)
Episode 55
After retirement, Dr. Alice Stewart continued to raise awareness of how radiation could cause cancer, immunodeficiencies, and other possible health d…
6 months, 1 week ago
Dr. Alice Stewart: The Radiation Epidemiologist (Part I)
Episode 54
In this two part series, Aarati tells the story of the epidemiologist who realized there was a link between prenatal x-rays and childhood cancer. She…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Interview with Kiara Rodríguez-Acevedo: The Stress Geneticist
Episode 53
Stress affects men and women differently. We sit down with Kiara Rodríguez-Acevedo, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania to ask her ho…
7 months, 1 week ago
Vivien Thomas: The Heart (Non-) Surgeon
Episode 52
Happy Black History month! In this episode, Aarati tells the unlikely story of a carpenter turned lab technician. Vivien Thomas created a blood shunt…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Interview with Andrew Robertson: The Ant Scientist
Episode 51
Ants may not be very big, but we have a lot to learn from these tiny creatures! We sit down with Andrew Robertson, a PhD candidate at Georgia Tech an…
8 months, 1 week ago
Dr. Dmitri Mendeleev: Organizing the Elements
Episode 50
It's episode 50! Aarati tells the story of the temperamental Russian chemist who figured out a way to organize all the known (and unknown) elements i…
8 months, 3 weeks ago