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Math! Science! History!

Math! Science! History!

Auteur(s): Gabrielle Birchak
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 Math! Science! History! is a podcast about the history of people, theories, and discoveries that have moved our scientific progress forward and spurred us on to unimaginable discoveries. Join Gabrielle Birchak for a little math, a little science, and a little history. All in a little bit of time.© 2025 Mathématique Monde Science
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  • FLASHCARDS! Research that Sits in the Margins

    FLASHCARDS! Research that Sits in the Margins
    Feb 27 2026

    A clean success story is rarely the whole story. In this Flashcard Friday episode of Math! Science! History!, Gabrielle Birchak offers a simple method for spotting the people who made breakthroughs possible but did not become the headline.

    In the Margins episode gives you three practical questions you can use on any science story to find hidden contributors in author lists, acknowledgments, lab records, and patent filings. Save this episode and use it as your listening companion heading into Women's History Month.

    What you'll learn (because the footnotes have feelings)

    1. How to spot hidden contributors quickly by asking who touched the evidence, who did the work, and who kept the record.

    2. Where credit actually shows up in science writing, including author order, acknowledgments, methods sections, and contributor role statements.

    3. How the "simple story" gets rewarded and how that reward system can hide women's contributions.

    Explore more on our website: mathsciencehistory.com
    📚 To buy my book Hypatia: The Sum of Her Life on Amazon, visit https://a.co/d/g3OuP9h

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    Explore more on our website: mathsciencehistory.com

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    Music: All music is public domain and has no Copyright and no rights reserved.
    On Matters of Consequence from The Little Prince by Lloyd Rodgers

    Until next time, carpe diem!
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    10 min
  • Hidden Inventors: Black Women, Patents, and Lost Credit

    Hidden Inventors: Black Women, Patents, and Lost Credit
    Feb 24 2026
    In this episode of Math! Science! History!, Gabrielle Birchak traces the paper trails behind Black women inventors whose ideas reshaped ordinary life, from laundry tools and home design to security systems and medical devices. You will hear how patents, assignments, licensing, and missing records shaped who got credit and who got paid, and why some inventions became household standards while their inventors stayed unfamiliar. This story is about engineering, documentation, and what happens when innovation meets the economics of recognition. What You'll Learn in This Episode Follow the Paper Trail How patents and archives function as evidence, and why the existence of a patent does not guarantee wealth, credit, or commercialization. How ownership can shift through assignments and intermediaries, changing who controls the rights and who benefits financially. How inventions become "invisible" once they become normal, and how race and gender shaped which names survived in popular history. Five Resource Links 1. Smithsonian Lemelson Center, "Who Invents and Who Gets the Credit?" https://invention.si.edu/invention-stories/who-invents-and-who-gets-credit 2. National Archives DocsTeach, "Sarah E. Goode's Folding Beds" https://docsteach.org/document/sarah-e-goodes-folding-beds/ 3. USPTO, "Sights on the Prize" (Patricia Bath) https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/journeys-innovation/historical-stories/sights-prize 4. Lemelson-MIT, "Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner" https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/mary-beatrice-davidson-kenner 5. The Woman Inventor - https://archive.org/details/Womaninventor1Smit 🔗 Explore more on our website: mathsciencehistory.com 📚 To buy my book Hypatia: The Sum of Her Life on Amazon, visit https://a.co/d/g3OuP9h 🌍 Let's Connect!Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mathsciencehistory.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/math.science.history Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mathsciencehistory LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/math-science-history/ Threads: https://www.threads.com/@math.science.history Mastodon: https://mathsciencehistory@mathstodon.xyz YouTube: Math! Science! History! - YouTube Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/mathsciencehistory 🎧 Enjoying the Podcast? ☕ Support the Show: Coffee!! PayPal Leave a review! It helps more people discover the show! Share this episode with friends & fellow history buffs! Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform Check out our merch: https://www.mathsciencehistory.com/the-store Music: All music is public domain and has no Copyright and no rights reserved. Selections from The Little Prince by Lloyd RodgersSarabane by Tomomi Kato from Pixabay Calm Night Jazz Music by Adi Iswanto Soft Jazz by Mircea Iancu from Pixabay Poodle Skirt Swirl by Paul Winter from Pixabay Forever and a Day by Playlist from Pixabay Groovy Getup by Jordan Garner from Pixabay Funk You (Go Funk Yoself) by Ketsa from Free Music Archive Modular Ambient 03 by sscheidl at Pixabay Until next time, carpe diem!
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    23 min
  • FLASHCARDS! The Power of Self-Learning

    FLASHCARDS! The Power of Self-Learning
    Feb 20 2026
    Self-teaching is not only a way to collect knowledge. It is a life skill that builds self-reliance, career mobility, and mental flexibility over time. In this Flashcard Friday episode, Gabrielle explains why lifelong learning supports brain health and communication, how certificates can make your progress visible on LinkedIn, and why stepping outside your comfort zone sometimes means learning hard history, including the ways slavery shaped American systems. Call to action: Follow the show so you do not miss future Flashcard Fridays, share this episode with a friend who loves learning, and leave a review to help more listeners find Math! Science! History! What You'll Learn: A Brain That Stays in Training 1. How self-teaching builds self-reliance and makes you more adaptable when work and life change. 2. Why lifelong learning supports brain health and aging, including neuroplasticity and cognitive reserve. 3. How learning hard history strengthens judgment and communication, and where to start with reputable books and long-form reading. Resources Brain, aging, and learning · Neuroplasticity persists across life · Later-life learning is associated with better cognitive function over time (longitudinal study) · Alzheimer's Association guide on keeping the brain mentally active. LinkedIn certificates · How to add LinkedIn Learning certificates of completion to your profile Stepping outside your comfort zone: slavery and systems · Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told · Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone · Ta-Nehisi Coates, "The Case for Reparations" 🔗 Explore more on our website: mathsciencehistory.com 📚 To buy my book Hypatia: The Sum of Her Life on Amazon, visit https://a.co/d/g3OuP9h 🌍 Let's Connect!Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mathsciencehistory.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/math.science.history Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mathsciencehistory LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/math-science-history/ Threads: https://www.threads.com/@math.science.history Mastodon: https://mathsciencehistory@mathstodon.xyz YouTube: Math! Science! History! - YouTube Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/mathsciencehistory 🎧 Enjoying the Podcast? 🔗 Explore more on our website: mathsciencehistory.com ☕ Support the Show: Coffee!! PayPal Leave a review! It helps more people discover the show! Share this episode with friends & fellow history buffs! Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform Check out our merch: https://www.mathsciencehistory.com/the-store Music: All music is public domain and has no Copyright and no rights reserved. Selections from The Little Prince by Lloyd Rodgers Until next time, carpe diem!
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    12 min
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