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ScienceBrunch

Science Brunch

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].

  • 35 minutes 35 seconds
    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 dig!
    20 August 2017, 9:32 pm
  • 39 minutes 26 seconds
    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 is just better when nerds name things!
    17 July 2017, 3:15 am
  • 41 minutes 51 seconds
    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 succeed in the field.
    5 July 2017, 5:27 am
  • 43 minutes 19 seconds
    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, after all, and couldn't resist immortalizing his enemies' names in some of the gross stuff he found in nature.
    19 June 2017, 4:29 am
  • 52 minutes 22 seconds
    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 culture.
    5 June 2017, 5:31 am
  • 52 minutes 34 seconds
    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 hero worship?
    1 May 2017, 2:02 am
  • 50 minutes 36 seconds
    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 bucket.
    17 April 2017, 4:04 pm
  • 44 minutes 22 seconds
    Episode 23 - Barbara McClintock
    Cytogeneticist Barbara McClintock proved chromosomal crossover in meiosis long before anyone in her field understood it.
    3 April 2017, 3:53 am
  • 44 minutes 29 seconds
    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 career in the United States, working in the WWII war effort.
    20 March 2017, 12:19 am
  • 39 minutes 19 seconds
    Episode 21 - Vera Rubin
    Vera Rubin's observations of galaxy rotations showed that we can only actually see about 5% of the universe.
    6 March 2017, 12:14 am
  • 44 minutes 8 seconds
    Episode 20 - J. Robert Oppenheimer
    After leading the United States' successful scientific effort to become the first nation to develop the atomic bomb, Robert Oppenheimer spent the rest of his life advocating for international arms control.
    16 January 2017, 2:18 am
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