Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ overlooked women scientists’ biographies • historical context, sexism, racism • materials science, chemistry, physics, astronomy • medicine, public health, cancer, genetics • wartime research, patents, recognition disputes • STEM inclusion, science legacy today
This podcast tells narrative, research-based stories about women whose scientific work shaped major fields but whose names were minimized, forgotten, or credited to others. Across its episodes, it reconstructs the lives of chemists, physicists, physicians, astronomers, botanists, statisticians, and other innovators, often tracing how their careers unfolded inside institutions and eras that limited women’s access to training, funding, authorship, and professional recognition. The science itself is part of the story, with explanations of discoveries in areas such as materials research, genetics and cytogenetics, cancer biology and drug development, meteorology and atmospheric science, microbiology and airborne disease, radioactivity, and forensic investigation.
A recurring theme is how credit is assigned in science: the podcast frequently examines collaborations, lab hierarchies, and publication practices that allowed male colleagues or institutions to eclipse women’s contributions, along with later efforts to correct the historical record. Another throughline is the intersection of science with politics and social power. Episodes situate scientific work amid wars, industrial research labs, authoritarian regimes, racism in medicine, and public debates over reproductive health, showing how these forces shaped what research was possible and whose expertise was believed.
The show also links past to present by highlighting how earlier findings and inventions live on in contemporary technology, healthcare, and public health, and by discussing ongoing disparities in areas like maternal outcomes. Alongside historical biographies, the podcast includes conversation-format episodes with authors and scientists and occasionally features adapted or re-aired stories, including Spanish-language versions that broaden access to the same themes. Overall, the content blends biography, history of science, and social context to explain both what these women discovered and why their legacies were vulnerable to erasure.
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Episodes:
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Layers of Brilliance: The 'House of Magic' -- Episode Two
2026-Feb-05
41 minutes
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Layers of Brilliance: The Chemical Genius of Katharine Burr Blodgett - Episode One
2026-Jan-29
34 minutes
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Layers of Brilliance
2026-Jan-15
2 minutes
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The Lost Women of Science - Our Book for Young Readers
2025-Dec-04
21 minutes
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For Susan
2025-Nov-20
22 minutes
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The Mouse Lady
2025-Nov-13
29 minutes
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Lost Women of Science Conversations: Rosalind - The Opera
2025-Nov-06
29 minutes
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Best Of: Finding Dora Richardson: The Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen, a Lifesaving Breast Cancer Therapy - Episode Two
2025-Oct-16
36 minutes
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Encontrando a Dora Richardson – La desarrolladora olvidada del tamoxifeno, una terapia vital contra el cáncer de mama
2025-Oct-16
33 minutes
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Best Of: Finding Dora Richardson, The Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen, a Lifesaving Breast Cancer Therapy - Episode One
2025-Oct-09
41 minutes
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Encontrando a Dora Richardson – Episodio 1
2025-Oct-09
31 minutes
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Opening Doors to Computer Science
2025-Sep-25
34 minutes
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Frances Glessner Lee: The Mother of Forensic Science
2025-Sep-11
38 minutes
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The Mothers of Gynecology
2025-Aug-28
67 minutes
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Best Of: Dr. Sarah Loguen Fraser, an Ex-Slave’s Daughter, Becomes a Celebrated Doctor
2025-Aug-14
31 minutes
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La Dra. Sarah Loguen Fraser, hija de un ex esclavo, se convierte en una destacada médica
2025-Aug-14
37 minutes
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Mujeres perdidas del Proyecto Manhattan: Carolyn Beatrice Parker
2025-Jul-31
15 minutes
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Best Of: Lost Women of the Manhattan Project - Carolyn Beatrice Parker
2025-Jul-31
15 minutes
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Emma Unson Rotor: la física filipina que desarrolló un arma ultrasecreta
2025-Jul-17
21 minutes
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Best Of: Emma Unson Rotor: The Filipina Physicist Who Developed a Top Secret Weapon
2025-Jul-17
20 minutes
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Best Of: The Victorian Woman Who Chased Eclipses
2025-Jul-03
30 minutes
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La mujer victoriana que perseguía los eclipses
2025-Jul-03
21 minutes
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Lost Women of Science - Mujeres Olvidadas de la Ciencia - En Espanõl
2025-Jun-26
2 minutes
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Lost Women of Science - In Spanish!
2025-Jun-26
1 minute
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The Weather Expert Who Answered the $64,000 Question
2025-Jun-19
34 minutes
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Florence Nightingale and her Geeks Declare War on Death
2025-Jun-05
46 minutes
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Lost Women of Science Conversations: Air-borne
2025-May-22
33 minutes
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Buried History: The Feminist Birth of the Home Pregnancy Test
2025-May-08
30 minutes
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Lost Women of Science Conversations: The Elements of Marie Curie
2025-Apr-24
28 minutes
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In Evangelina's Footsteps | 5
2025-Apr-10
21 minutes
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Siguiendo los pasos de Evangelina | 5
2025-Apr-10
23 minutes
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El dictador y la doctora | 4
2025-Apr-03
29 minutes
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The Dictator and the Doctor | 4
2025-Apr-03
26 minutes
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El retorno de la doctora rebelde | 3
2025-Mar-27
28 minutes
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The Rebel Doctor Returns | 3
2025-Mar-27
25 minutes
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A Dominican in Paris | 2
2025-Mar-20
29 minutes
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Una dominicana en París | 2
2025-Mar-20
32 minutes
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La doctora | 1
2025-Mar-13
27 minutes
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La Doctora | 1
2025-Mar-13
24 minutes
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La Extraordinaria Vida y Trágica Muerte de Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo
2025-Mar-06
1 minute
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The Extraordinary Life and Tragic Death of Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo
2025-Mar-06
1 minute
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Lost Women of Science Conversations: Lady Tan's Circle of Women
2025-Feb-27
34 minutes
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Who Discovered the Cause of Down Syndrome ? Episode Two
2025-Feb-13
31 minutes
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Who Discovered the Cause of Down Syndrome? Episode One
2025-Feb-06
25 minutes
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Margarethe Hilferding, Sigmund Freud, and the Conspiracy of Silence
2025-Jan-23
41 minutes
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Lost Women of Science Conversations: Breaking Through
2025-Jan-09
34 minutes
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Best Of: Flora Patterson, the Woman who Kept Devastating Blights from U.S. Shores
2024-Dec-19
26 minutes
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Lost Women of Science Conversations - Brave the Wild River
2024-Dec-05
30 minutes
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Lost Women of the Manhattan Project: Carolyn Beatrice Parker
2024-Nov-21
15 minutes
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Lost Women of Science Conversations: Attention is Discovery
2024-Nov-14
28 minutes
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Finding Dora Richardson: The Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen, a Lifesaving Breast Cancer Therapy - Episode Two
2024-Oct-31
36 minutes
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Finding Dora Richardson - The Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen
2024-Oct-24
41 minutes
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Lost Women of Science Conversations: Wonder Drug
2024-Oct-17
36 minutes
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The Devil in the Details - Chapter Five
2024-Oct-10
36 minutes
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The Devil in the Details - Chapter Four
2024-Oct-03
33 minutes
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The Devil in the Details - Chapter Three
2024-Sep-26
28 minutes
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The Devil in the Details - Chapter Two
2024-Sep-19
30 minutes
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The Devil in the Details - Chapter One
2024-Sep-12
29 minutes
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Trailer: The Devil in the Details
2024-Aug-29
1 minute
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Lost Women of Science Conversations: Writing for Their Lives
2024-Aug-22
28 minutes
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The Quest for Everything
2024-Aug-08
29 minutes
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Dr. Jess Wade, Physicist and Wikipedia Maven
2024-Jul-25
15 minutes
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Lost Women of Science Conversations: The Exceptions
2024-Jul-11
34 minutes
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Chemistry Professor and Crime Buster: The Remarkable Life of Mary Louisa Willard
2024-Jun-27
30 minutes
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Lost Women of Science Conversations: Wild By Design
2024-Jun-13
26 minutes
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Revisiting The Pathologist in the Basement: Episode 4 Breakfast in the Snow
2024-May-30
42 minutes
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Revisiting the Pathologist in the Basement: Episode 3 The Case of the Missing Portrait
2024-May-23
29 minutes
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Revisiting the Pathologist in the Basement: Episode 2 The Matilda Effect
2024-May-16
44 minutes
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Revisiting the Pathologist in the Basement
2024-May-09
31 minutes
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Lost Women of Science Conversations: Mathematics for Ladies
2024-May-02
26 minutes
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Elizabeth Bates and the Search for the Roots of Human Language
2024-Apr-25
37 minutes
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The Theoretical Physicist Who Worked With J. Robert Oppenheimer at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
2024-Apr-18
30 minutes
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Best Of: The Highest of All Ceilings, Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
2024-Apr-11
29 minutes
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The Victorian Woman Who Chased Eclipses
2024-Apr-04
30 minutes
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Lost Women of Science Conversations: Mischievous Creatures
2024-Mar-28
25 minutes
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The Cognitive Scientist Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Language
2024-Mar-21
16 minutes
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Best Of: Meet the Physicist who Spoke Out Against the Bomb She Helped Create
2024-Mar-14
23 minutes
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How Lilian Bland Built Herself A Plane
2024-Mar-07
39 minutes
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Lost Women of Science Conversations: The Black Angels
2024-Feb-29
27 minutes
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The Industrial Designer Behind the N95 Mask
2024-Feb-15
12 minutes
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The Universe in Radio Vision
2024-Feb-08
28 minutes
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From Our Inbox: Forgotten Electrical Engineer’s Work Paved the Way for Radar Technology
2024-Feb-01
15 minutes
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Best of: A Complicated Woman, Leona Zacharias
2024-Jan-25
37 minutes
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From Our Inbox: Vera Peters - The Doctor Who Helped Spare Women From Radical Mastectomy
2024-Jan-11
12 minutes
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Adventures of a Bone Hunter
2024-Jan-04
32 minutes
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Emma Unson Rotor: The Filipina Physicist Who Helped Develop a Top Secret Weapon
2023-Dec-14
20 minutes
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Flapper of the South Seas: A Young Margaret Mead Travels To The South Seas
2023-Dec-07
26 minutes
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The Devastating Logic of Christine Ladd-Franklin
2023-Nov-30
27 minutes
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Best Of: The Feminist Test We Keep Failing
2023-Nov-23
21 minutes
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From Our Inbox: Mária Telkes, The Biophysicist Who Harnessed Solar Power
2023-Nov-16
11 minutes
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The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect
2023-Nov-09
31 minutes
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Dr. Rebecca Crumpler, America's First Black Female Public Health Pioneer
2023-Nov-02
34 minutes
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Flemmie Kittrell and the Preschool Experiment
2023-Oct-26
36 minutes
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From Our Inbox: A Microbe Hunter in Oregon Fights the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
2023-Oct-19
11 minutes
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The English Lit Major Who Cracked Nazi Codes
2023-Oct-12
35 minutes
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Who was Christine Essenberg? A remarkable zoologist almost lost to history
2023-Oct-05
29 minutes
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Dr. Sarah Loguen Fraser, an ex-slave’s daughter, becomes a celebrated doctor
2023-Sep-28
31 minutes
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A Flair for Efficiency: The Woman Who Redesigned the American Kitchen
2023-Sep-21
34 minutes
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Part 2: Why Did Lise Meitner Never Receive the Nobel Prize for Splitting the Atom?
2023-Sep-14
26 minutes
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Part 1: Why Did Lise Meitner Never Receive the Nobel Prize for Splitting the Atom?
2023-Sep-07
26 minutes
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They Remembered the Lost Women of the Manhattan Project So That We Wouldn't Forget
2023-Aug-31
11 minutes
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Meet the Physicist who Spoke Out Against the Bomb She Helped Create
2023-Aug-24
21 minutes
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The Story of the Real Lilli Hornig, the Only Female Scientist Named in the Film Oppenheimer
2023-Aug-17
18 minutes
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No Place for a Woman in Mathematics? The Woman Who Ended up Supervising The Computations that Proved an Atomic Bomb Would Work
2023-Aug-03
15 minutes
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Blood, Sweat, and Fears: The Story of Floy Agnes Lee, the Young Woman Who Analyzed the Blood of Manhattan Project Scientists
2023-Jul-27
14 minutes
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One of Many Lost Women of the Manhattan Project: Leona Woods Marshall Libby
2023-Jul-20
11 minutes
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Women of the Manhattan Project: Trailer
2023-Jul-13
1 minute
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From Our Inbox: Alessandra Giliani, 14th-century Italian anatomist
2023-Jul-06
7 minutes
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The Highest of All Ceilings: Astronomer Cecilia Payne
2023-Jun-22
29 minutes
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What's in a Street Name? Everything.
2023-Jun-01
19 minutes
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The Doctor and the Fix: Chapter 5
2023-May-04
35 minutes
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Reminder about next episode and an update
2023-Apr-27
less than a minute
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The Doctor and the Fix: Chapter 4
2023-Apr-20
38 minutes
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The Doctor and the Fix: Chapter 3
2023-Apr-13
34 minutes
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The Doctor and the Fix: Chapter 2
2023-Apr-06
27 minutes
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The Doctor and the Fix: Chapter 1
2023-Mar-30
28 minutes
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The Doctor and the Fix: Trailer
2023-Mar-16
1 minute
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Of Chestnuts, Cherry Trees, and Mushroom Catsup: Flora Patterson, the Woman who Kept Devastating Blights from U.S. Shores
2023-Jan-26
24 minutes
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A Complicated Woman: Leona Zacharias
2023-Jan-12
35 minutes
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Introducing Lost Women of Science Shorts: Trailer
2023-Jan-05
1 minute
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The Woman Who Knocked Science Sideways
2022-Dec-01
27 minutes
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The Feminist Test We Keep Failing
2022-Nov-17
21 minutes
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The First Lady of Engineering: An Interview with Y.Y.'s Daughter, Carol Lawson
2022-Nov-03
34 minutes
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The First Lady of Engineering: Chapter 4
2022-Oct-13
39 minutes
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The First Lady of Engineering: Chapter 3
2022-Oct-06
37 minutes
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The First Lady of Engineering: Chapter 2
2022-Sep-29
35 minutes
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The First Lady of Engineering: Chapter 1
2022-Sep-22
34 minutes
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The First Lady of Engineering: Trailer
2022-Sep-08
1 minute
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Meet our new cohost!
2022-Sep-01
1 minute
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A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: The Weather Myth
2022-Jun-02
26 minutes
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A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: Chapter 5
2022-Apr-28
30 minutes
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A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: Chapter 4
2022-Apr-21
40 minutes
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A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: Chapter 3
2022-Apr-14
37 minutes
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A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: Chapter 2
2022-Apr-07
40 minutes
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A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: Chapter 1
2022-Mar-31
37 minutes
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A Grasshopper in Very Tall Grass: Trailer
2022-Mar-17
2 minutes
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The Pathologist in the Basement: The Resignation
2021-Dec-23
26 minutes
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The Pathologist in the Basement: Chapter 4
2021-Nov-25
37 minutes
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The Pathologist in the Basement: Chapter 3
2021-Nov-18
28 minutes
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The Pathologist in the Basement: Chapter 2
2021-Nov-11
38 minutes
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The Pathologist in the Basement: Chapter 1
2021-Nov-04
31 minutes
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The Pathologist in the Basement: Trailer
2021-Oct-20
3 minutes
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Lost Women of Science: Trailer
2021-Oct-14
1 minute
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