Marie Tharp and the Secret Mountains Beneath the Sea

Marie Tharp and the Secret Mountains Beneath the Sea

This is the sto­ry of Marie Tharp, the geol­o­gist and car­tog­ra­ph­er who helped prove the the­o­ry of con­ti­nen­tal drift and changed geol­o­gy for­ev­er, armed with noth­ing more than sonar read­ings, col­ored pen­cils, and a deter­mi­na­tion to reveal the unseen. The Ear­ly Years: A Qui­et Foun­da­tion Marie Tharp was born on July 30, 1920, in Ypsi­lan­ti, Michi­gan. Her father, William Tharp,

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Just Say No to Melanoma

Just Say No to Melanoma

Wel­come back to Flash­card Fri­day here on Math, Sci­ence, His­to­ry! I’m your host, Gabrielle, and today’s episode is all about some­thing small that packs a big punch against one of the most com­mon can­cers in the world: sun­block. We’ll explore its fas­ci­nat­ing his­to­ry, the sci­ence of how it works, the sta­tis­tics on skin can­cer and melanoma, and why pro­tect­ing your

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FLASHCARD FRIDAYS: Charles Darwin, the lost boy

FLASHCARD FRIDAYS: Charles Darwin, the lost boy

It’s FLASHCARDS FRIDAY at Math! Sci­ence! His­to­ry! and I’m Gabrielle Bir­chak. I have a back­ground in math sci­ence and jour­nal­ism. It’s offi­cial­ly sum­mer. Some pro­fes­sors are on break. And if you’re not in acad­e­mia you are like­ly plan­ning your vaca­tions or sum­mer activ­i­ties. So, this sum­mer Math! Sci­ence! His­to­ry! is going to have a spe­cial vaca­tion series, because it’s nice

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FLASHCARDS: The Alan Turing Story: Cracking Codes, Facing Injustice

FLASHCARDS: The Alan Turing Story: Cracking Codes, Facing Injustice

PODCAST TRANSCRIPTS It’s Flash­card Fri­days at Math! Sci­ence! His­to­ry!, where we explore the beau­ti­ful, messy, bril­liant evo­lu­tion of human thought. I’m Gabrielle Bir­chak, and today I’m briefly cov­er­ing the life of a man whose mind helped save mil­lions of lives and lay the ground­work for the dig­i­tal age we live in. He cracked codes, he chal­lenged the norms, he made

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Jacoba van den Brande: Pioneer of Women’s Education

Jacoba van den Brande: Pioneer of Women’s Education

PODCAST TRANSCRIPTS It’s Flash­card Fri­day here at Math, Sci­ence, His­to­ry, when on Fri­days we post a short lit­tle flash card about some­thing mathy, sci­en­cy, or his­to­ry. I’m your host, Gabrielle Bir­chak, and I’m shar­ing a sto­ry about the life of a remark­able woman who made a pro­found, yet often over­looked, con­tri­bu­tion to math­e­mat­ics and edu­ca­tion: Jaco­ba van den Brande. Though

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Boolean Logic and Winning at Cluedo (Clue)

Boolean Logic and Winning at Cluedo (Clue)

The Ori­gins of Boolean Log­ic Boolean log­ic was devel­oped by George Boole, a self-taught math­e­mati­cian and logi­cian from Eng­land. Boole’s inter­est in log­ic began ear­ly, inspired by his father, a shoe­mak­er with a pas­sion for sci­ence and math­e­mat­ics. In 1854, Boole pub­lished his sem­i­nal work, An Inves­ti­ga­tion of the Laws of Thought, where he intro­duced an inter­est­ing con­cept where he

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