Smart Tea
Who are the people behind the discoveries that have changed our lives? Join Aarati as she spills the tea on scientists and inventors throughout history!
Podcasting since 2023 • 56 episodes
Smart Tea
Latest Episodes
Dr. Alice Stewart: The Anti-Radiation Activist (Part II)
After retirement, Dr. Alice Stewart continued to raise awareness of how radiation could cause cancer, immunodeficiencies, and other possible health defects. She stood up against government entities on behalf of workers who were dying of radiati...
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Episode 55
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49:23
Dr. Alice Stewart: The Radiation Epidemiologist (Part I)
In this two part series, Aarati tells the story of the epidemiologist who realized there was a link between prenatal x-rays and childhood cancer. She undertook a lifelong crusade to warn people against the dangers of radiation.
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Episode 54
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Interview with Kiara Rodríguez-Acevedo: The Stress Geneticist
Stress affects men and women differently. We sit down with Kiara Rodríguez-Acevedo, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania to ask her how she is blending neuroscience and epigenetics to uncover how estrogen levels in the brain infl...
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Episode 53
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56:15
Vivien Thomas: The Heart (Non-) Surgeon
Happy Black History month! In this episode, Aarati tells the unlikely story of a carpenter turned lab technician. Vivien Thomas created a blood shunt for the hearts of blue babies without ever having gone to medical school or earning a degree.....
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Episode 52
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Interview with Andrew Robertson: The Ant Scientist
Ants may not be very big, but we have a lot to learn from these tiny creatures! We sit down with Andrew Robertson, a PhD candidate at Georgia Tech and winner of Galactic Polymath Education Studio's 2025 #MySciJourney competition, and talk about...
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Episode 51
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