TRANSCRIPTS It’s Flashcards Friday, and I’m your host, Gabrielle Birchak. Today’s flashcard is a simple idea with sharp teeth: a resource can exist and still be unreachable. So instead of only asking, “Does help exist?”, I want to ask a better question: Can people reach help through the real-world gates of access? Here’s the model. Six Gates of Access. If
In today’s episode, I give a historical account of the life of Haiti’s first female physician, Dr. Yvonne Sylvain, who fought for maternal care, cancer screening, and modern medical practice in the twentieth century.
Science fiction is not valuable because it predicts the future. It is valuable because it trains the mind. It gives us a way to practice thinking about systems before we build them, and to practice caring about consequences before consequences have real names.
If you have ever felt your stomach drop when you’ve lost a file on your computer, then you already understand the first lesson of history. History is not only made by people. History is also made by what survives.
this episode is about reading with depth and determination to find the accurate sources behind the success stories. The pattern is not only that black female inventors were overlooked; it is also the way in which the overlooking occurs.
It’s Flashcards Friday! This podcast is a follow-up to Tuesday’s episode about Benjamin Banneker. This brilliant individual was predominantly self-taught. I found his story very inspiring because he was self-educated. In other words, he learned everything he knew about astronomy and surveying without being in a classroom. And today, when people say they are self-taught, that means so more than
It’s Flashcards Fridays. I’m Gabrielle Birchak, your host, and today I’m going to do a callback to Tuesday’s episode, which was about capturing thoughts. Last Tuesday’s episode was about photographing thoughts. Today I’m going to talk about those moments where you wish you could have just thought about the subject better, especially when you’re trying to learn something new. But
It’s Flashcards Friday, and today I want to talk about something that matters as much as any experiment: how we talk to people who do not trust science. Not how to win an argument. Not how to humiliate someone with a fact. How to build a bridge. Because science does not spread by volume. It spreads when people feel safe
But if the Sun Dagger teaches us anything, it is that science does not begin with explaining.
Science begins with watching and advances through listening.
The holidays have ended, the decorations have come down, and many people have stepped outside to find that the ground has been quietly transformed into a dense, slippery physics problem.