BA in Science

This week, Maggie and Byrnna discuss a monk who was VERY invested in the breeding habits of pea plants, and his work is how we know that two brown-eyed parents can have a blue-eyed child. Find us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscience Featured BA: Gregor Mendel

Maggie and Brynna discuss an oft-forgotten BA this week who made a huge impact on mass transit in the United States and around the world. Find us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscience Featured BA: Frank Sprague

Maggie and Brynna get into the BS of unwitting human experimentation in mental health facilities in this week's episode. Find us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscience Featured Story: Willowbrook Hepatitis Experiments

Maggie and Brynna love an over-achiever, and the BA they discuss this week is the very definition of that. It wasn't easy to squeeze even a small list of the guy's accomplishments into a regular episode; he could probably have had his own season. Find us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscience Featured BA: Thomas Young

In this week's episode, Maggie and Brynna discuss a woman who had a fake husband and figured out how to find the conditions for where very real (as in not imaginary) solutions to certain problems can be. Find us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscience Featured BA: Sofya Kovalevskaya

This week, Maggie and Brynna discuss a very chill BA who took on histamines because they were being too loud. But is it really the histamines, or something else? Find us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscience Featured BA: Nancy T Chang

For the Season 9 Brawl, Maggie and Brynna discuss two guys with huge egos, one of whom just kept holding a grudge. But were both of them to blame for the brawl that took place around the discovery and isolation of a little hormone we all need to live? Find us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscience Featured BAs: Fred Banting and JJR Macleod

Maggie and Brynna discuss a woman who did her best for the children in her country and who may correctly be credited with giving us a way to get our digestion back on track after the yuckiest kind of illness. Find us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscience Featured BA: Fe Del Mundo

This week, Maggie and Brynna talk about a guy who had a few wild moments when he was young, but who became the father of organic chemistry and an excellent professor, too. Find us on Patreon: BA in Science | creating A Podcast | Patreon Featured BA: Justus von Liebig

Join Maggie and Brynna as they kick off Season 9 with a BA who lived a scandalous life even by today's standards, but also made a major contribution to physics and chemistry and thermodynamics. Find us on Patreon! BA in Science | creating A Podcast | Patreon Featured BA: Emilie du Chatelet

We're back and ready to entertain and inform with more wild and interesting stories of badass humans who also happened to do science.

In this last episode of Season 8, Maggie and Brynna discuss the impact Pythagoras has had on culture though the centuries, as well as the fact that the Pythagorean theorem might be misnamed. Find us on Patreon: BA in Science | creating A Podcast | Patreon

In part 1 of the Season 8 Finale, Maggie and Brynna discuss the life and myths of one of the biggest names in mathematics. Find us on Patreon: BA in Science | creating A Podcast | Patreon Featured BA: Pythagoras

This week, Maggie and Brynna discuss a woman who would probably insist that you can teach an old dog new tricks. Or maybe an old rat. Find us on Patreon! BA in Science | creating A Podcast | Patreon Featured BA: Marian Diamond

In this season's BS episode, Maggie and Brynna discuss a physicist who perhaps had more drama in his personal life than BA in Science has ever dealt with before. CONTENT WARNING! Some material might be more than you'd like to share with your kids, so screen it before you share it! Find us on Patreon: BA in Science | creating A Podcast | Patreon Featured BA: Erwin Schrodinger

On this week's episode, Maggie and Brynna talk about an organic chemist who smoked, hated exercise, and was one of the most brilliant chemistry minds ever. Find us on Patreon: BA in Science | creating A Podcast | Patreon Featured BA: Robert Burns Woodward

Maggie and Brynna head back to the days of the French Revolution to talk about a French surgeon who did a little bit of everything, including make enemies where he worked. Check us out on Patreon: BA in Science | creating A Podcast | Patreon Featured BA: Guillaume Dupuytren

We're halfway through Season 8, and Maggie and Brynna are talking about a medieval Chinese BA who refurbished a giant landmark and brought the heavens to earth. Find us on Patreon: BA in Science | creating A Podcast | Patreon Featured BA: Su Song

We don't often get to talk to our featured BA, but this week, we did! Joining Maggie and Brynna this week to talk about his life and his science is Dr. Jay Wile, a chemist, textbook author, and educator. Find us on Patreon: BA in Science | creating A Podcast | Patreon

It's time for the Season 8 brawl! Maggie and Brynna discuss the explorers who tried to find the source of the Nile, but couldn't do it without fighting. Find us on Patreon: BA in Science | creating A Podcast | Patreon Featured BAs: Richard Burton and John Speke

This week, Maggie and Brynna talk about a BA woman who changed the way we communicate with computers. Check us out on Patreon: BA in Science | creating A Podcast | Patreon Featured BA: Grace Hopper

Maggie and Brynna discuss a guy from the US in the late 1800s who used his knowledge of plants to help poor farmers in the South. Check us out on Patreon! BA in Science | creating A Podcast | Patreon Featured BA: George Washington Carver

Maggie and Brynna are officially back for season 8 with a BA who was a chemist, an artist, and an alleged murderer. Check us out on Patreon: BA in Science | creating A Podcast | Patreon Featured BA: Eadweard Muybridge

Are you ready for Season 8?

In the Season 7 finale, Maggie and Brynna do a deep-dive into the chemistry and uses of noble gases. Find us on Patreon! BA in Science | creating A Podcast | Patreon