Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.

Hiya.

So, Benny has really blossomed this term. You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay. Oh, that's not quite what I meant. It's free to sell on there. Free to sell? Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket. You sold my guitar? Shall we talk about Benning?

When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.

Things people love. T's and Cs apply, excludes vehicles.

Hello, Science Talk audience.

I'm Katie Hafner, and I'm the host of a new podcast called Lost Women of Science.

I've been writing about science and technology for decades, most of that time for the New York Times.

But very rarely did I write about a woman who was a major figure.

I don't remember it bothering me very much at the time. It just seemed normal.

I believed I was writing about the most important people in their fields. But it became clear,

as my career went on, that important figures were missing, namely, women. I started asking why this was a couple of

years ago, and I kept coming back to something called the Matilda Effect, which is basically

a bias against acknowledging women for their work in science. Instead, the credit goes to a man. A good example I saw in the

news recently is Jocelyn Bell Burnell. She's a radio astronomer who discovered the first two pulsars.

But the Nobel Prize went to a man. If we don't catch these misattributions,

these women can just fade away from our consciousness.

And we'll never know the truth about their story and about our history.

I started this podcast to retrieve these scientists from oblivion.

We put together a trailer for the series, and here it is.

I'm Katie Hafner, host of a new podcast called Lost Women of Science.

Through history, women have made hundreds of scientific breakthroughs.

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