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Written by: Aarati Asundi
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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!

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  • Dr. Dmitri Mendeleev: Organizing the Elements

    Dr. Dmitri Mendeleev: Organizing the Elements
    Jan 14 2026

    It's episode 50! Aarati tells the story of the temperamental Russian chemist who figured out a way to organize all the known (and unknown) elements into a table that ordered them by increasing atomic weight and grouped them into categories.

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Dr. Ludwig Boltzmann: The Disordered Physicist

    Dr. Ludwig Boltzmann: The Disordered Physicist
    Dec 31 2025

    Why do certain things never happen in reverse? A shattered glass does not spontaneously reform, a spray of perfume doesn't concentrate back into it's bottle... but why not? In the Part III of our December Thermodynamics series (the final part!) Aarati tells us the story of the physicist who understood the true nature of entropy.

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Dr. Rudolf Clausius: The Laws of Thermodynamics

    Dr. Rudolf Clausius: The Laws of Thermodynamics
    Dec 17 2025

    Part II of our December Thermodynamics Extravaganza! Aarati tells the story of the German scientist who formally stated that 1) energy is conserved and 2) entropy is always increasing.

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    51 mins
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