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1 month ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Gabriela Saldivia |Carol Lewis
Lisa See’s novel Lady Tan’s Circle of Women was inspired by a medical textbook published in 1511 by an eminent female doctor, Tan Yunxian. In this episode, we talk to See about how she came to write her novel and to Lorraine Wilcox, the scholar who translated the original Chinese text, about what the practice of medicine was like for a female doctor during the Ming Dynasty.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Carol Lewis |Laura Isensee
Two female botanists—Elzada Clover and Louis Jotter—made headlines for riding the rapids of the Colorado River in 1938 in an effort to document the Grand Canyon’s plant life. In Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon, author Melissa L.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Sarah Wyman |Carol Lewis
Mary Louisa Willard, a chemistry professor at Pennsylvania State University starting in the late 1920s, was a colorful character. Her hometown of State College, Pa., knew her for stopping traffic in her pink Cadillac to chat with friends and for throwing birthday bashes for her beloved cocker spaniels. Police around the world knew her for her side hustle: using chemistry to help solve crimes. LISTEN TO THE PODCASTLost Women of Science is produced for the ear.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Katie Hafner |Carol Lewis |Alexa Lim |Elah Feder
Annie Montague Alexander went on paleontology expeditions most women could only dream of in the early 1900sAnnie Montague Alexander was an adventurer, an amateur paleontologist and founding benefactor of two venerated museums at the University of California, Berkeley: the University of California Museum of Paleontology and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. Born in 1867, she was the daughter of a wealthy sugar baron, but she never quite fit in with her high-society peers.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
scientificamerican.com | Carol Lewis |Katie Hafner
This early feminist fought for the credit she deserved for her deductive reasoning system and her educational qualificationsPolymath Christine Ladd-Franklin is best known for her theory of the evolution of color vision, but her research spanned mathematics, symbolic logic, philosophy, biology and psychology. Born in Connecticut in 1847, she was clever and sharp-tongued, and she never shied away from a battle of wits.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
scientificamerican.com | Carol Lewis |Danya Abdel Hameid |Elah Feder
Flemmie Pansy Kittrell was a leader in the field of home economics, with a particular interest in the nutrition and holistic well-being of children from Black and low-income families. Born to sharecropping parents in North Carolina in 1904, Kittrell was the eighth of nine children. At just 11 years old, she started working as a cook and a maid, and she used the income to pay for her education over the years.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
scientificamerican.com | Katie Hafner |Carol Lewis
How Elizebeth Smith Friedman went from scouring Shakespeare for secret codes to taking down a Nazi spy ringKnown as “America’s first female cryptanalyst,” Elizebeth Smith Friedman was a master code breaker who played a pivotal role in both World Wars. For many years, no one knew what she had done, not even her own family. Code breaking wasn’t Smith Friedman’s plan to begin with. In the mid-1910s she was a 23-year-old college graduate in English literature looking for an interesting job.
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Apr 19, 2023 | 
podcasts.apple.com | Carol Lewis
Carol talks with Dr. Yasmin Hurd, Director of the Mount Sinai Addiction Institute, about the complex landscape of drug use today. With marijuana available recreationally or medically in most states and new synthetic drugs regularly hitting the market, parents need to know when and how to discuss drugs and drug use with their children. Dr. Hurd shares her insights on two drugs currently making headlines: cannabis and fentanyl.
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Mar 9, 2023 | 
baltimoretimes-online.com | Carol Lewis
Over the course of hosting my podcast, I’ve spoken to parents of autistic children about their challenges and victories raising neurodiverse children. The number of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has steadily increased over the last twenty years. According to a study conducted by the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, 1 in every 44 children received a diagnosis of ASD in 2018, up significantly from 1 out of every 150 children between 2000 and 2002.
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Jan 18, 2023 | 
podcasts.apple.com | Carol Lewis
College admissions experts Timothy Fields and Shereem Herndon-Brown join Carol to discuss what Black families need to know about helping their teens succeed during the college application process. Timothy, a senior admissions officer at Emory University, and Shereem, a former high school college counselor who now runs a college counseling consulting firm, are authors of The Black Family's Guide to College Admissions, A Conversation About Education, Parenting and Race.
