Mary Ingalls, a Woman and Scientist in Africa, and Whales

Welcome to Double X Science podcast recorded Feb 23, 2013. Co-hosts this week are Adrienne Roehrich, Chemistry Editor, and Jeffrey Perkel, Tech Editor. Topics covered are posts of the week, with emphasis on "What blinded Mary Ingalls?" and "#DispatchesDNLee: Handling Lady Business in the Field" for Double X Science and Whale Week for Double X Science Jr. We also cover two articles of news this week, the possible federal funding of "the brain project" and the calculation of counting Calories. News stories can be found at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/18/science/project-seeks-to-build-map-of-human-brain.html and http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/02/have-we-been-miscounting-calorie.html. Blog posts mentioned can be found at: http://www.doublexscience.org/is-there-a-season-for-births/ http://www.doublexscience.org/what-blinded-mary-ingalls/ http://www.doublexscience.org/dispatchesdnlee-handling-lady-business-in-the-field/ http://www.doublexscience.org/i-am-mental-illness-a-quarter-century-chronicle/ http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/02/first-sighting-of-spade-toothed-whale.html http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-language-of-whales.html