Cowboy Chemistry

Dylan Gardner

Chemistry as a discipline has a reputation to the public of being boring, hard to understand, and dry. However, there are both people and experiments that changed history. We will cover laboratory and industrial accidents, cases of fraud like Jan Hendrik Schön, and the man that has caused more harm to earth’s atmosphere than any other single organism Thomas Midgley Jr. We will talk about the greatest chemists and their lives from Marie Curie to Rosalind Franklin to Neils Bohr to Glenn Seaborg. The Chemistry of everyday things like medications, tattoo ink, soaps and cleaners, cosmetics, sunscreen, and more! Join us for Cowboy Chemistry! read less
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Live Fast Dye Young
Aug 27 2022
Live Fast Dye Young
Bad girls doing hair! This episode is about the history and science of hair dye and surprise nazis once again! Do we have to cancel aspirin now? Find out with our guest, local comedian and cosmetologist, the radiant Val Burba. Follow her on instagram @valburbacomedy and of course follow us on all the social medias. Hosted as always by Dylan Gardner and music by Gwen Mylls.   Sources: https://set.adelaide.edu.au/news/list/2019/08/20/why-is-the-colour-blue-so-rare-in-nature#:~:text=Blue%20is%20a%20very%20prominent,far%20fewer%20animals%20are%20blue.  https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-plants-green-to-reduce-the-noise-in-photosynthesis-20200730/  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200625144900.htm  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picric_acid  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_coloring#cite_note-30  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Schueller  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/titan-who-founded-loreal-built-his-brand-shoulders-nazis-180964805/  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Or%C3%A9al#History  https://web.archive.org/web/20120505045702/http://gladwell.com/2011/2011_03_28_a_color_of_money.html  https://www.forbes.com/2005/03/18/cz_sh_0318oreal_bill05.html?sh=201cbbb975fc  https://www.forbes.com/static/bill2005/LIRF6EZ.html?passListId=10&passYear=2005&passListType=Person&uniqueId=F6EZ&datatype=Person  https://web.archive.org/web/20110604000405/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,157348,00.html  https://books.google.com/books?id=nDYVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q&f=false