Introductions Necessary
- Autor: Vários
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- Editora: Podcast
- Duração: 3:32:30
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Now airing season two celebrating women working "above the line" in film and television.
Episódios
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Ellen Stofan
26/03/2024 Duração: 02minTo celebrate the discovery of Saturn’s moon Titan, we will meet a former Chief NASA Scientist who had the radical idea to explore Titan – by boat! Image: Wikimedia Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Tess Russo
25/03/2024 Duração: 02minDifferent areas of the world face a variety of problems with their water supplies, and hydrogeologists like Tess Russo are trying to solve them. Image Courtesy of UCSC Hydrogeology. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Emmy Noether
24/03/2024 Duração: 02minToday we’re celebrating the birthday of a woman that Einstein called a “creative mathematical genius,” Emmy Noether. Image: Wikimedia. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Kathryn “Kitty” Hach Darrow
23/03/2024 Duração: 02minFor World Water Day, we’re learning about a woman who helped use chemistry to bring clean water to the world. Image: Wikimedia. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Antonia Maury
22/03/2024 Duração: 02minAntonia Maury was one of the Harvard “computers,” women who were pioneers in astronomy. Image: Wikimedia. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Maude Leonora Menten
20/03/2024 Duração: 02minToday we celebrate one of the first female doctors born in Canada was also a pioneer in enzyme kinetics and histochemistry, Maud Leonora Menten. Image: Smithsonian Institution Archives Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Rachel Wilkins Patel
20/03/2024 Duração: 02minIn an effort to use her diverse skill set, Rachel Wilkins Patel founded HER Ideas In Motion to help inspire the next generation. Image Courtesy of HER Ideas in Motion Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Susana Martinez-Conde
19/03/2024 Duração: 02minOn most days, neuroscientist Susana Martinez-Conde works with other scientists. On others, she’s teaming up with magicians and sleight of hand experts. Image: Casa de America (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED) Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Katherine Fitzgerald
18/03/2024 Duração: 02minDr. Fitzgerald and her team are working to understand how dysregulation of innate immunity underlies the pathogenesis of infectious, inflammatory and autoimmune disease in humans. Image Courtesy of UMass. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Caroline Herschel
17/03/2024 Duração: 02minCaroline Herschel discovered eight comets, and was the first professional female astronomer. Image: Wikimedia. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Sunetra Gupta
16/03/2024 Duração: 02minDr. Sunetra Gupta is an epidemiologist and a novelist, excelling in both science and art. Image: Wikimedia (CC BY 4.0 DEED) Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Amy Rowat
15/03/2024 Duração: 02minIt’s Pi Day, and to celebrate we’re introducing you to Dr. Amy Rowat, a UCLA professor who uses food to explain scientific principles. Image Courtesy of UCLA. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Deborah Gordon
13/03/2024 Duração: 02minThink ants are pests that you wish would just go away? Not so fast, Dr. Deborah Gordon thinks that we as humans have a lot to learn from these efficient foragers. Image: Wikimedia Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Mary Jean Harrold
12/03/2024 Duração: 02minMary Jean Harrold was a prolific software engineering researcher that promoted diversity in computer science fields, acting as a teacher and mentor to many. Image Courtesy of Georgia Tech. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Margaret Oakley Dayhoff
12/03/2024 Duração: 02minMargaret Oakley Dayhoff has been called the “mother and father of bioinformatics” as she was a pioneer of applying mathematics and computational methods to biochemistry. Image: Wikimedia Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Sandrine Thuret
11/03/2024 Duração: 02minScientists used to think that the adult brain didn’t change, but Dr. Sandrine Thuret has shown that new neurons are still formed. Image Courtesy of Kings College London. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Linda Morabito
10/03/2024 Duração: 02minMarch 9th is the anniversary of the announcement of the first discovery of extraterrestrial volcanic activity by astronomer Linda Morabito. Image Courtesy of NASA. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Sylvia Wiegand
08/03/2024 Duração: 02minDr. Sylvia Wiegand has expanded a successful career in mathematics to also help promote other women working in math and academia. Image Courtesy of University of Nebraska-Lincoln Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Margaret Chan
08/03/2024 Duração: 02minDr. Margaret Chan has faced many challenges as the director-general of the World Health Organization. Image Courtesy of the World Economic Forum (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED) Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Michelle Buchanan
07/03/2024 Duração: 02minMichele Buchanan is hoping to change the world through her research into energy, and her work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Image Courtesy of ORNL Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms