Podcast appearances and mentions of ellen swallow richards

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Ellen Swallow Richards was a big part of the establishment of home economics as a field.  But well before that, she broke a lot of ground and was often way ahead of her time. Research: Bettex, Morgan. “A life filled with firsts.” MIT News. 1/26/2011. https://news.mit.edu/2011/timeline-richards-0126 Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Ellen Swallow Richards". Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Nov. 2022, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ellen-Swallow-Richards. Accessed 8 February 2023. Chapman, Sasha. “The Woman Who Gave Us the Science of Normal Life.” Nautilus. 3/28/2017. https://nautil.us/the-woman-who-gave-us-the-science-of-normal-life-236534/ Daniels, Elizabeth A. “The Disappointing First Thrust of Euthenics.” Vassar Encyclopedia. https://vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu/interviews-and-reflections/the-disappointing-first-thrust-of-euthenics/ Durant, Elizabeth. “Ellencyclopedia.” MIT Technology Review. 8/15/2007. https://www.technologyreview.com/2007/08/15/36578/ellencyclopedia/ Dyball, Robert and Liesel Carlsson. Human Ecology Review, Vol. 23, No. 2, Special Issue: Human Ecology—A Gathering of Perspectives: Portraits from the Past—Prospects for the Future (2017). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26367977 Egan, Kristen R. “Conservation and Cleanliness: Racial and Environmental Purity in Ellen Richards and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.” Women's Studies Quarterly , FALL/WINTER 2011, Vol. 39, No. 3/4. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41308345 Hunt, Caroline Lousia. “The life of Ellen H. Richards, 1842-1911.” Boston: Whitcomb & Barrows. 1918. https://archive.org/details/lifeofellenhrich1918hunt Kwallek, Nancy. "Ellen Swallow Richards: visionary on home and sustainability." Phi Kappa Phi Forum, vol. 92, no. 2, summer 2012, pp. 8+. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A291498991/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=7050163b. Accessed 6 Feb. 2023. McNeill, Leila. “The First Female Student at MIT Started an All-Women Chemistry Lab and Fought for Food Safety.” Smithsonian. 12/18/2018. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/first-female-student-mit-started-women-chemistry-lab-food-safety-180971056/ Richardson, Barbara. “Ellen Swallow Richards: Advocate for ‘Oecology,' Euthenics and Women's Leadership in Using Science to Control the Environment.” Michigan Sociological Review , Fall 2000, Vol. 14 (Fall 2000). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40969050 Smith, Coleen. "The William Barton Rogers Building - The Door Opens." Clio: Your Guide to History. October 24, 2022. Accessed February 8, 2023. https://theclio.com/entry/147331 Smith, Nancy DuVergne. “Scene at MIT: Ellen Swallow Richards leads the Women's Laboratory.” MIT News. 3/21/2017. https://news.mit.edu/2017/scene-at-mit-ellen-swallow-richards-womens-laboratory-0321 Talbot, H.P. “Ellen Swallow Richards.” Technology Review, volume 13, pp. 365-373. https://wayback.archive-it.org/7963/20190702115713/https://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/esr/esr-biography.html Vassar Encyclopedia. “Ellen Swallow Richards '1870.” https://vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu/distinguished-alumni/ellen-swallow-richards/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The year was 1881 when 17 women gathered for an unprecedented meeting called by recent college graduate Margaret Talbot and her mentor, Ellen Swallow Richards. Having defied social norms by attending college and pursuing careers they were determined to increase women's access to higher education. Their persistence led to the founding of the American Association for University Women, which has championed the civil, educational, and economic rights of women for 140 years. AAUW is devoted to achieving equal pay for women and to closing a pay gap, that disproportionately harms Black women and Latinas. Gloria Blackwell, who started her career educating girls in sub-Saharan Africa, led several of AAUW's signature initiatives, including its celebrated Fellowship program and trainings in salary negotiations, before becoming its President and CEO. She honors the women who came before her by engaging a new generation of girls in fighting stereotypes to excel in STEM, advocating for paid family leave, affordable childcare, and student loan forgiveness. She is supported by a community that includes 170,00 members, donors, and supporters. Like Gloria, they want all women to know their rights and their value.

another3rdwheel.comanother3rdwheel@gmail.cominstagram.com/another3rdwheelWhen you think of Home Economics, what comes to mind? A class you took in high school where you learned how to sew a pillowcase or make a quiche? While those are certainly some of the topics that Home Economics covers, there's so much more to it. In this blog post, we'll take a comprehensive look at the history of Home Economics and discuss what it is and how it has evolved over the years. 1873 as a way to teach women about domesticity and nutrition. Home economics was designed to make women better wives and mothers.Catherine Beecher, who was born in 1800, is credited with founding Home Economics in 1873. At the time, Home Economics was known as "domestic science" or "domestic arts." Beecher believed that women should be taught about domesticity and nutrition to be better wives and mothers. Home Economics classes were first offered at colleges and universities but eventually made their way into high schools.In the early 1900s, Home Economics began to focus more on science and less on domestic arts. This was due in part to the work of Ellen Swallow Richards, who is considered to be the first Home Economist. Richards was a chemist who studied topics like food and nutrition, and she helped legitimize Home Economics as a field of study.Today, Home Economics is known by many names, including "family and consumer sciences" or "human sciences." Home Economics is still focused on nutrition and cooking but has expanded to include other areas like child development, financial literacy, and interior design. As the world continues to change, Home Economics will likely continue to evolve. Who knows what the future of Home Economics holds? Home economics is a field of study covering a wide range of topics, from child development and family relations to nutrition and financial planning. Home economists are trained in running a household, from budgeting and meal planning to sew and home repairs.The field of home economics had its roots in the early 19th century, when women began to play a more active role in the public sphere. Home economics was initially designed to prepare women for their roles as wives and mothers, but it has since evolved to encompass a much broader range of topics.Today, home economists work in various settings, from schools and universities to government agencies and private businesses. They help families make informed decisions about their finances, health, and relationships. Home economics is a vital part of our society, and its importance will continue to grow in the years to come.Do you have what it takes to be a home economist? If you're interested in helping people manage their households effectively, this could be the perfect career. Home economics requires a combination of theoretical knowledge and practical skills, so if you're up for the challenge, then be sure to check out our program. We'll give you the tools to succeed in this rewarding field.If you want to learn more about home economics or explore other career options in family and consumer sciences, then be sure to check out our website. We offer a variety of resources that can help you make the best decision for your future. Thanks for reading! Home economics is a field of study covering a wide range of topics, from child development and family relations to nutrition and financial planning. Home economists are trained in running a household, from budgeting and meal planning to sew and home repairs.In the early 20th century, Home economics became an established field of study in many countries worldwide. In the United States, Home economics was initially known as "domestic science" or "household arts." The first Home economics department was established at Iowa State University in 1899. Home economics was later renamed "family and consumer sciences" to reflect the broadened scope of the field.Home economics is a field of study that has evolved to encompass various topics. Home economists are trained in running a household, from budgeting and meal planning to child development and financial literacy. Home economics is a vital part of our society, and its importance will continue to grow in the years to come. Thanks for reading!

In this episode, we discuss three remarkable women: Sally Ride, Ellen Swallow Richards, and Patricia Bath. Sources: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sally-ride https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_26.html https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/patricia-bath https://wams.nyhistory.org/modernizing-america/modern-womanhood/ellen-swallow-richards/ https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/ellen-h-swallow-richards https://www.vassar.edu/vcencyclopedia/alumni/ellen-swallow-richards.html https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/women-scientists/ellen-h-swallow-richards.html

Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911) was the first woman to be admitted to MIT. She founded the home economics movement and ignited the study of ecology to create life-saving environmental health standards. History classes can get a bad rap, and sometimes for good reason. When we were students, we couldn't help wondering... where were all the ladies at? Why were so many incredible stories missing from the typical curriculum? Enter, Womanica. On this Wonder Media Network podcast we explore the lives of inspiring women in history you may not know about, but definitely should.Every weekday, listeners explore the trials, tragedies, and triumphs of groundbreaking women throughout history who have dramatically shaped the world around us. In each 5 minute episode, we'll dive into the story behind one woman listeners may or may not know–but definitely should. These diverse women from across space and time are grouped into easily accessible and engaging monthly themes like Educators, Villains, Indigenous Storytellers, Activists, and many more.  Womanica is hosted by WMN co-founder and award-winning journalist Jenny Kaplan. The bite-sized episodes pack painstakingly researched content into fun, entertaining, and addictive daily adventures. Womanica was created by Liz Kaplan and Jenny Kaplan, executive produced by Jenny Kaplan, and produced by Liz Smith, Grace Lynch, Maddy Foley, Brittany Martinez, Edie Allard, Lindsey Kratochwill, Adesuwa Agbonile, Carmen Borca-Carrillo, Taylor Williamson, and Ale Tejeda. Special thanks to Shira Atkins.Original theme music composed by Miles Moran.We are offering free ad space on Wonder Media Network shows to organizations working towards social justice. For more information, please email Jenny at pod@wondermedianetwork.com.Follow Wonder Media Network:WebsiteInstagramTwitterTo take the Womanica listener survey, please visit: https://wondermedianetwork.com/survey 

Students in MIT's course 5.310 Laboratory Chemistry have a state-of-the art lab to work in, with energy-saving hibernating fume hoods and a new spectrometer that achieves mind-blowingly precise measurements—not parts per million or parts per billion, but parts per trillion! And the students do spend much of their time in that new lab. But Dr. John Dolhun, director of the Undergraduate Chemistry Teaching Labs at MIT, who taught 5.310 for many years, and Dr. Sarah Hewett, who currently teaches it, make sure that the course doesn't take place entirely behind closed doors. One of the lab activities involves collecting water samples from the Charles River and analyzing them for dissolved oxygen and contaminants such as phosphates. This activity, named the “Ellen Swallow Richards Lab” after an environmental chemist who was also the first female student at MIT, ensures that the coursework is grounded in real-world concerns. In this episode, Dr. Dolhun and Dr. Hewett discuss that lab and other topics, such as how to teach perseverance, why their course emphasizes ways of communicating science to an audience of nonscientists, and the importance of sharing educational resources. Relevant ResourcesMIT OpenCourseWareThe OCW Educator PortalShare your teaching ideas and insights with John Dolhun and Sarah HewettDr. Dolhun and Dr. Hewett's course on OCWChemLab Boot Camp video series on OCWEllen Swallow Richards biography at WikipediaMIT Spectrum article on the new undergraduate chemistry labsMIT News article on energy-saving measures in the undergraduate chemistry labsMusic in this episode by Blue Dot Sessions Connect with UsIf you have a suggestion for a new episode or have used OCW to change your life or those of others, tell us your story. We'd love to hear from you! Call us @ 617-715-2517On our siteOn FacebookOn TwitterOn Instagram Stay CurrentSubscribe to the free monthly "MIT OpenCourseWare Update" e-newsletter. Support OCWIf you like Chalk Radio and OpenCourseware, please donate to help keep those programs going! CreditsSarah Hansen, host and producer Brett Paci, producer  Dave Lishansky, producer Script writing assistance by Aubrey CalawayShow notes by Peter Chipman

•   I just wanted to take a minute and share the last few episodes have been incredible, listening to Kevin Reese Sr talk about his award and all the major happenings at New Bern High School in North Carolina, along with the tech twins who are business and marketing and educators who have turned entrepreneurs.  They have a lot of great things going on,  then we did a deep dive into the rich history of Ellen Swallow Richards, our foundation for family and consumer sciences education. I am so grateful for the knowledge from Joyce Miles. We then listened to Rachel Grabowski chat about Special Education in the Gen Ed classroom in episode 67. Rachel shares many amazing tools, tips and tricks that she's giving us to better meet the needs to all of our students, regardless of abilities. Then finally, Chelsey Farias, who happens to be my co-teacher who I share a classroom with during first period and second period. Chelsey talked about being a new teacher, and building cultural opportunities in the FCS classroom.  For those of you who have listened to episode 66 and hearing her excitement and enthusiasm for starting off the new school year, let me just tell you, she is thriving and she's doing amazing work. I am so grateful to be able to partner with her and watch her flourish as a new teacher (00:31)• I'm teaching interior design 1 & 2, financial literacy and maybe mental health and counseling sometimes this school year, but I just came up with PBL assignment on the fly the other day. For those of us who are not educators or not familiar with certain acronyms within the education field, PBL stands for 'project-based learning'. This is a hands-on activity for students to engage in for my interior design class, as we're just finishing up our principles and elements of design unit. I've gone and turn this activity into a interactive lap book. It's interactive, not digital. We love our digital interactive notebooks, but no, this is an actual hands-on book that students are creating, and I'm really excited to see what student's create. I will share this assignment on my website where you'll be able to download from free. I want you to use it, so if you have interior design and you're looking for an activity that meets standard and content along with buying you a little more time for a reprieve...Well, I got the stuff for you  (2:26)•  Students are given a manila folder that you would have for your file cabinet, students are then instructed to fold it into thirds, so it becomes a mini presentation board for them.  On the front for the title, I'm just gonna walk you through this assignment, so you have your front cover, so the book is folded and closed up with that title showing. For the title, students will write "what are the elements and principles of design" including their first and last name, and of course, what class period they're in.  They have to include pictures of those elements of design that represents space, color, shape, form, value, texture and line, so students can draw a trace, use magazine cut-outs in. Or, if they have a colored printer at home or something, they can print those images out and I put that down as 10 points, then the title is done and they get to color it and make it as creative as possible.  (3:39)• Students will be focusing on the Elements of Design: color, value, form, value, texture, and shape.  Students are including the definition and what are four benefits to each of those design elements.  For example, when it comes to color, what are four benefits to color?  1. You are able to change the mood of a room... Great, there's a benefit. What's another benefit to color? 2. Color can also help reduce stress and anxiety, 3. Color can improve your sleep, and 4. it could improve focus. These are all areas of how various color can impact good design, so they're writing that down and then they include a picture of the color wheel where they draw or something along those lines, and have some sort of interactive 3-d element jumping out at us when we're looking at it, then finally on the inside right side panel of their presentation folder, they will focus on line and texture, and again, they're always including that definition first of what line is... Or texture, or any of those elements, they're including the definition first and then moving on to adding the four benefits to each of those designs. (7:06)• My students are also lacking on their digital interactive notebooks... I love the digital interactive notebook as a teaching tool and pacer and I love but students are struggling staying engaged so,  I'm trying to apply the hands-on projects and not making the digital interactive notebooks count so much, because I noticed within the last few weeks as we wrapped up our color theory unit, when we were doing our water coloring and creating their own color wheels and drawing, everyone was so relaxed. Students loved it. I was able to put them in pods where they were working together, and students who don't normally ever even talk to one another, all of a sudden, this lively conversation came about so organic and natural. It was amazing. And so that's what I'm trying to re-create but staying safe as we are still observing covid protocols. So, we start off doing individual work with our digital interactive notebooks, and then we come together for a big project, and then quiz.   (9:04)CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedWHEN DOES IT AIR…OCTOBER 6th, 2021

•  My husband and I are both retired and we moved back to Lafayette, Indiana near Purdue University. We spend our time when students are here, working with students on campus as full-time volunteers. We have a number of advisory boards that we're on, we spend a lot of time with student life. Student life covers everything but sports and academics, so this is all the musical organizations, all of the housing units. We both lived in cooperative housing, these are small units, anywhere from 15 to 40 people living in one house and they share the duties and learn all the life skills that many of us learned at home. Today, too many are not learning these skills at home. We work with those students, there's about 400 students in 11 cooperatives, so we work a lot with them. The pandemic, of course, was a blip on our radar, like it was on everyone else's... We were not allowed to be on campus, the students were sent home the second semester in 2020, and then fall semester they came back, but we could not... So we learned how to zoom and learn how to connect vicariously.  (3:00)•  Well, and when I look back, it was a question that hit my mind right off with a lot of people maybe questioning why we spend so much time looking at the history. Shouldn't we be looking ahead pushing forward? And there's some thought to that, but I think in our profession, particularly, we have such a rich history, and there are so many people practicing today who maybe don't even know that rich history, The fact that the science background was so grounded in... I think about the science courses I took here at Purdue, I could have been a science teacher. In fact, one of my roommates was a science teacher. That wasn't the way I wanted to go, but I certainly had the background to do that. I think the more I did the study in the history, the more proud I became of what I chose to do for a life skill, a lifetime of working... I don't know that I thought about that when I was practicing. I taught for a very short length of time and then spent all the rest of my time as a supervisor for Family and Consumer Science in a huge school system in Jacksonville, Florida (7:16)•   I'm with the Historical Society in New Hampshire, and they found an old trunk in a farmhouse, and once they finally opened the trunk and got around to looking to see what was in it, there was this journal in there.  The journal was written by a woman named Eliza Hewins, she talked about Ellen Richards and she had pictures of Ellen Richards. So this person was asking me if I knew how that material got to New Hampshire for one thing. Who was the woman who was writing about Ellen Richards and publishing the pictures? So we did quite a little bit of research, it turns out this person was a neighbor of Ellen Richards, and they rode the trolley car together. Ellen lived in what was then a suburb of Boston, and would ride down to the Back Bay, which is where MIT was back in the late 1800s, and they rode together, and so Ellen invited her to go on weekend day trips, and this was a journal, a handwritten journal of those day trips. (15:06)•  Ellen is still at the forefront, she would have been practicing before we ever had labeling. There's the stories about her working in her father's store, and they would come in and they'd order saleratus or something, which was the same thing as baking soda. And then they would order something else over here, and she said, I get them out of the same bag, she said they're the same thing, and so she would have been hot on it for labeling and then teaching people to read the labels. We take for granted the labeling that is now on everything, and I have learned to appreciate the bar coding on it, now, I am a returning Weight Watchers person, and now with your little phone, you put the bar code up there and it tells you exactly how many points in that particular item.  (24:12)•   Your question, did I ever have a clue about what I would get into?  I had no idea. I mean, I literally turned one bedroom in my house into Ellen's room. All of my archives things, I bought a lot of period pieces, not furniture so much as small pieces, that I could set the stage.  And then, in addition to the documentary, I did a 45-minute presentation in her own words, and I traveled all over the country and Europe actually doing that presentation. I had a 1911 costume made by one of your Washington AAFCS members, LynDee Lombardo. And actually, the whole room was turned into Ellen's room. (30:18)CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedCONNECT WITH JOYCE:• Email Joyce: JoyceMiles@aol.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joyce.b.miles.3• Archive Documentary: https://archive.org/details/Ellen_Swallow_RichardsWHEN DOES IT AIR…SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The potato famine saw a Dublin barracks turned into place where starving people were given six minutes to eat their soup in silence. Tom Scott-Smith researches humanitarian relief and his Essay takes us from the father of the modern soup kitchen in 1790 Bavaria and the meaning of "to rumfordize" to Boston, America a hundred years later and a recipe developed by an MIT Professor, Ellen Swallow Richards, which dunked meat in condensed milk and flour. What lessons about society's values can we take from their different recipes for soup? Producer: Torquil MacLeod Tom Scott-Smith is Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford. He has published a book called On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief, and taken part in a film project Shelter without Shelter which was the winner of one of the 2020 AHRC Research in Film Awards. This research was featured in an exhibition staged by the Imperial War Museum which you can hear about in the Free Thinking episode called Refugees.. New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to choose ten academics each year who use their research to make radio programmes.

The potato famine saw a Dublin barracks turned into place where starving people were given six minutes to eat their soup in silence. Tom Scott-Smith researches humanitarian relief and his Essay takes us from the father of the modern soup kitchen in 1790 Bavaria and the meaning of "to rumfordize" to Boston, America a hundred years later and a recipe developed by an MIT Professor, Ellen Swallow Richards, which dunked meat in condensed milk and flour. What lessons about society's values can we take from their different recipes for soup? Producer: Torquil MacLeod Tom Scott-Smith is Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford. He has published a book called On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief, and taken part in a film project Shelter without Shelter which was the winner of one of the 2020 AHRC Research in Film Awards. This research was featured in an exhibition staged by the Imperial War Museum which you can hear about in the Free Thinking episode called Refugees.. New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to chose ten academics each year who use their research to make radio programmes.

Every weekday, listeners explore the trials, tragedies, and triumphs of groundbreaking women throughout history who have dramatically shaped the world around us. In each 5 minute episode, we’ll dive into the story behind one woman listeners may or may not know -- but definitely should. These diverse women from across space and time are grouped into easily accessible and engaging monthly themes like Pioneers, Dreamers, Villainesses, STEMinists, Warriors & Social Justice Warriors, and many more. Encyclopedia Womannica is hosted by WMN co-founder and award-winning journalist Jenny Kaplan. The bite-sized episodes pack painstakingly researched content into fun, entertaining, and addictive daily adventures.Encyclopedia Womannica was created by Liz Kaplan and Jenny Kaplan, executive produced by Jenny Kaplan, and produced by Liz Smith, Cinthia Pimentel, and Grace Lynch. Special thanks to Shira Atkins and Edie Allard. Theme music by Andi Kristins.Follow Wonder Media Network:WebsiteInstagramTwitter

Esta semana venimos con una tertulia sobre lógica y matemáticas, abordando el concepto de indecibilidad, con el matemático de la Universitat de Barcelona, Alejandro Poveda. Desde Francia tuvimos al teléfono a Alberto Loarte: jefe de la sección de modelización y confinamiento del ITER, la colaboración que está fabricando un reactor de fusión nuclear. También os contamos cuáles fueron las pistas que llevaron a pensar que hubo un Big Bang, y os descubrimos a la química Ellen Swallow Richards: primera mujer aceptada en el MIT, pionera del ecologismo y luchadora por el derecho a la educación de las mujeres. Esperamos que lo disfrutéis! ;)

Rachel Carson, author of the 1962 bestseller, Silent Spring, was the first American to combine two longstanding, but separate, strands of American environmentalism -- the love of nature and a concern for human health. In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Robert K. Musil redefines the achievements and legacy of Carson, linking her work to a wide network of American women activists and writers, such as Ellen Swallow Richards, Dr. Alice Hamilton, Terry Tempest Williams, Sandra Steingraber, Devra Davis, and Theo Colborn, all of whom overcame obstacles to build and lead the modern American environmental movement.Dr. Musil is president and CEO of the Rachel Carson Council. He is also a senior fellow and adjunct professor at the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, School of Public Affairs, American University. From 1992 to 2006, he served as executive director and CEO of Physicians for Social Responsibility.Recorded On: Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Rachel Carson, author of the 1962 bestseller, Silent Spring, was the first American to combine two longstanding, but separate, strands of American environmentalism -- the love of nature and a concern for human health. In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Robert K. Musil redefines the achievements and legacy of Carson, linking her work to a wide network of American women activists and writers, such as Ellen Swallow Richards, Dr. Alice Hamilton, Terry Tempest Williams, Sandra Steingraber, Devra Davis, and Theo Colborn, all of whom overcame obstacles to build and lead the modern American environmental movement.Dr. Musil is president and CEO of the Rachel Carson Council. He is also a senior fellow and adjunct professor at the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, School of Public Affairs, American University. From 1992 to 2006, he served as executive director and CEO of Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Ellen Swallow Richards graduated from MIT in 1873 and later became an instructor there. In this edition of the MIT Alumni Books podcast, Richards's cousin, three generations removed, tells the story of Richards's remarkable life. Pamela Curtis Swallow discusses "The Swallow Experiment" and the legacy of her forebear. "What a difference she made in her years at MIT," she says. "I'm so proud of her. I can't believe I've got some of the same genes." Read more: http://bit.ly/1rnCzTh Episode Transcript: https://bit.ly/2GqzXjH

Guest Rogue: Karl Withakay; This Day in Skepticism: Mary Whiton Calkins and Ellen Swallow Richards; News Items: Homeopathy Debate, Small Pterosaur, Fracking Earthquakes, Never Eat Again, Voyager at the Edge; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: More Than Gravity; Science or Fiction

Guest Rogue: Karl Withakay; This Day in Skepticism: Mary Whiton Calkins and Ellen Swallow Richards; News Items: Homeopathy Debate, Small Pterosaur, Fracking Earthquakes, Never Eat Again, Voyager at the Edge; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: More Than Gravity; Science or Fiction