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Science Brunch is a podcast that features irreverent but mostly factual conversation about famous scientists and their discoveries, recent scientific events, and random science-y stuff. It is hosted by friendly neighborhood weirdos Katie McKissick (Beatrice the Biologist; science communicator) and Mae Prynce [INSERT CAREER HERE].

Episode 30 - Science News Roundup

No guest of honor today. Instead, we talk about some of the interesting happenings in the modern science world. And Katie tells us about her fossil di...
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Episode 29 - Percy Lavon Julian

You may have never heard of him, but African-American chemist Percy Lavon Julian is the guy you should thank for your hormonal birth control. And life...
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Episode 28 - Mary Agnes Chase

Mary Agnes Chase struggled to begin her career in botany, so when she finally made the big time, she turned around to help other women and minorities ...
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Episode 27 - Carl Linnaeus

Botanist Carl Linnaeus had a noble goal: to create a new standardized system of naming all living creatures on the planet. But he was only human, afte...
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Episode 26 - Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead traveled the world to study and compare different cultures, in a quest to find out which parts of us are driven by nature and which by c...
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Episode 25 - Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman was a brilliant theoretical physicist who won a Nobel Prize and inspired his younger sister to a career in STEM -- but is he worthy of...
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Episode 24 - Sálim Ali

"Birdman of India" Sálim Ali spent nearly 80 years observing and documenting bird species in India, yet he still considered his research a drop in the...
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Episode 22 - Qian Xuesen

Qian Xuesen is known as the father of China's missile and space program. He helped transform China into a world-class military power but started his c...
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