The Alphabet of Brilliance: 8 LGBTQ+ Scientists Who Changed History | Pride Month Special

The Alphabet of Brilliance: 8 LGBTQ+ Scientists Who Changed History | Pride Month Special

Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850–1891), Math­e­mati­cian We start in 19th cen­tu­ry Rus­sia, with a woman who wasn’t sup­posed to exist, at least not in math­e­mat­ics. Sofia Kovalevskaya grew up in a Rus­sia where uni­ver­si­ties were closed to women entire­ly. Her solu­tion was char­ac­ter­is­ti­cal­ly auda­cious: she arranged a mar­riage of con­ve­nience to obtain a pass­port, moved to Ger­many, and pro­ceed­ed to become the

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Queer Nature

Queer Nature

PODCAST TRANSCRIPTS We’re often told that nature is all about sur­vival of the fittest, repro­duc­tion, and het­ero­sex­u­al pairs. But what if nature has always been far queer­er than we’ve been taught? Today, I’m going to take you on a glob­al jour­ney through the world of sci­ence, from the ear­li­est obser­va­tions to cut­t­ing-edge research, to explore queer­ness in nature: from same-sex

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