BA in Science

In the season 10 finale, Maggie and Brynna close out al of Sir Isaac Newton's shenanigans and deal with one of the best-known disputes in math history.Find us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscienceFeatured BA: Newton and Leibniz

It's time for the season 10 finale, and in part 1, Maggie and Brynna recap who our brawlers are from earlier this season, and then discuss who actually should get credit for the theory of gravity.Find us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscienceFeatured BAs: Hooke and Newton

In this week's episode, Maggie and Brynna discuss a BA who made significant contributions to WW2, and also made it so food-borne illnesses are easier to detect and avoid.Find us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscienceFeatured BA: Welton Taylor

Join us on March 18th for our next regular episode!

In this week's episode, Maggie and Brynna discuss a traveling BA who had a VERY famous student/bestie and who resurrected bookkeeping best practices that had been forgotten for decades.Find us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscienceFeatured BA: Luca Pacioli

This week, Maggie and Brynna discuss a woman who isn't well known outside of India, but she was a pioneer of meteorological science.Find us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscienceFeatured BA: Anna Mani

Just once, it would be great if Maggie and Brynna could do a BS episode where everything was very clear-cut and obvious. That will not be today. Our featured scientist today has a legacy that stinks, but it's not quite that simple.Find us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscienceFeatured BA: Fritz Haber

Maggie and Brynna talk about a trail-blazing woman who was writing and publishing about common-sense women's health issues LONG before it was popular. (We're still waiting for it to be popular.)Find us on Patreon! patreon.com/bainscienceFeatured BA: Rebecca Lee Crumpler

Maggie and Brynna discuss a BA who knew her way around engines, and that knowledge allowed her to save a nation.Find us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscienceFeatured BA: Beatrice Shilling

In this episode, Maggie and Brynna discuss probability, Huguenots, and the origins of the internet.Find us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscienceFeatured BA: Abraham de Moivre

This week, Maggie and Brynna discuss a Swedish BA who doesn't have the name recognition he deserves, considering his VAST contributions to the field of chemistry.Find us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscienceFeatured BA: JJ Berzelius

The Season 10 Brawl episode had to be epic and this doesn't disappoint. Maggie and Brynna bring you part one of a three-part brawl that involves one guy with two (at least) nemeses. Don't miss the conclusion to this story in episodes 14 and 15 later this season!Fin us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscienceFeatured BAs: Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke

One thing about BAs: they've got passion for their field of expertise. This is completely true for the BA that Maggie and Brynna discuss this week. He was obsessed with plants in the best way, and even was director of a place that allowed him to be continually surrounded by the most incredible and varied plant species in the world. Find us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscienceFeatured BA: Sir Edward Salisbury

Maggie and Brynna are pleased to welcome Ciaran O'Connor to the podcast this week. Ciaran is a bit of an expert on all things laser ablation and imaging. We're thrilled we got to have a conversation with the youngest BA we've ever had or talked about on the podcast!Find us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscience

In this week's episode, Maggie and Brynna circle back to a guy who we talked about a little bit all the way back in season 4, and we need to finish discussing the guy who was convinced that the less humans are involved sometimes, the better.Find us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscienceFeatured BA: Charles Babbage

We know we talk about how fun Patreon is all the time, but maybe you didn't believe us. This episode is part of the Science that Brynna Hates series, and it features some stories about animals that really do herald the end-times. For more content like this, go over to Patreon at the link below and subscribe!patreon.com/bainscience

We're back for Season 10!! On this episode, Maggie and Brynna tackle a guy who might have gotten a lot wrong, but he was still way more right than anyone else was at the time.Find us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscienceFeatured BA: Galen

Are you ready for it? Season 10 Starts September 3rd!

It's Rosalind Franklin's birthday, so we thought we'd re-release the episode we did on her in Season 6. If you're missing us this summer, don't forget to go to Patreon and subscribe there for our bonus content and summer episodes!

In part two of the season 9 finale, Maggie and Brynna discuss the inheritor's powder and a woman who did not get away with murder.Find us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscienceFeatured BAs: Marsh and Orfila

In part one of the season 9 finale, Maggie and Brynna talk about two BAs who made it a lot harder for people to come into their inheritances sooner than later and get away with it.Find us on Patreon: patreon.com/bainscienceFeatured BAs: Marsh and Orfila

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/bainscienceFeatured 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/bainscienceFeatured 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/bainscienceFeatured 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/bainscienceFeatured 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/bainscienceFeatured 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/bainscienceFeatured 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/bainscienceFeatured 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/bainscienceFeatured 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 | PatreonFeatured 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 | PatreonFeatured 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

In part one of the Season 7 finale, Maggie and Brynna talk about the men who found new elements and figured out what to do with them. Eventually. Find us on Patreon! BA in Science | creating A Podcast | Patreon⁠ Featured BA: Sir William Ramsay and Neil Bartlett

This week, Maggie and Brynna talk about two BAs who fought Nazis and the Japanese during WWII without ever leaving the US. Find us on Patreon! BA in Science | creating A Podcast | Patreon Featured BA: William and Elizebeth Friedman

It's time for a BS episode! This season, Maggie and Brynna talk about science that was complete BS at the time, but may one day be possible. Find us on Patreon! Featured BA: Ronald Richter

This week, Maggie and Brynna discuss a BA from ancient times who dabbled in math, astronomy, and philosophy, and contributed in a big way to all of Western thought. Find us on Patreon! BA in Science | creating A Podcast | Patreon Featured BA: Thales of Miletus