Name: Giving money to others makes you happier...if they're the right others by poncie13
Duration: 2 min 29 s
Description: According to Harvard Business school researcher Michael Norton, giving money to others actually makes you happier. But how you give makes a huge difference.

Babes of Science is a podcast about women who made an impact in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. Learn more at babesofscience.com

IN THIS EPISODE Poncie wanders downtown Boulder and then the Boulder public library in search of female scientists...and nearly comes up empty-handed.

Music in this episode by Podington Bear and Thomas Dolby.

Ep1: Welcome to Babes of Science

Babes of Science is a podcast about women who made an impact in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. Learn more at babesofscience.com

IN THIS EPISODE Poncie talks about Alice Hamilton, who studied how the environment at factories impacted the health of the laborers who worked there. She also put cocaine in her eyes (for science of course).

Music in this episode by Zero 7, Alt-J, Podington Bear, and Melodium.

Ep2: Alice Hamilton

Babes of Science is a podcast about women who made an impact in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. Learn more at babesofscience.com

IN THIS EPISODE Poncie talks about Tilly Edinger, who studied fossil brains to understand how different animals' brains evolved. She also escaped Germany just before World War II started.

Music in this episode by Little People, Ulrich Schnauss, and Podington Bear.

Ep3: Tilly Edinger

Babes of Science is a podcast about women who made an impact in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. Learn more at babesofscience.com

IN THIS EPISODE Poncie talks about Hedy Lamarr, who suggested and then patented spread spectrum, or frequency hopping, to aid torpedoes during World War II. It later became the basis for bluetooth, cell phone communications, and some internet connections. She also happened to be a movie star.

Music in this episode by George Antheil and Podington Bear.

Ep4: Hedy Lamarr

Babes of Science is a podcast about women who made an impact in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. Learn more at babesofscience.com

IN THIS EPISODE Poncie talks about Maria Mitchell, one of the first women to discover a comet. She spent decades predicting how stars would move through the night sky, became the first professor hired at Vassar, and in her spare time, advocated for women's education.

Music in this episode by Broke For Free, Podington Bear, Kevin MacLeod, Coldnoise, Igor Khabarov, and Kai Engel.

Portrait by H. Dassell, 1851.

Ep5: Maria Mitchell

IN THIS EPISODE Poncie talks about Florence Nightingale, who changed nursing from a field where ladies would hunt for husbands to one where women prevented the spread of disease.

Music in this episode by Podington Bear, Blue Dot Sessions, Albin Andersson, and Ben McElroy.


Ep6: Florence Nightingale

IN THIS EPISODE Poncie talks about Alice Ball, who found one of the first treatments for leprosy. After Alice Ball's method was used, some of the first patients from leper colonies are released from isolation, and can return to their families.

Music in this episode by Bleak House, Blue Dot Sessions, Ben McElroy, Podington Bear, and Dustin Wong.

Ep7: Alice Ball

Once upon a time, everything from timing to the temperature at conception could get blamed for the sex of a baby. Even the baby's mom. Nettie Stevens first suggested that there's no blame to be had; a people's sex is all in their chromosomes.

Music in this episode:
Along the Hwy, Alex Fitch
Winter Theme, Blue Dot Sessions
Bouncing, Blue Dot Sessions
CGI Snake, Chris Zabriskie
John the Whale, Ben McElroy
Highway Acrylic, Bleak House
Stance Gives You Balance, Hogan Grip

Ep8: Nettie Stevens

Traveling music. Brief Musical up-tempo Acoustic Mandolin-Guitar-Bass instrumental

PacificCoastHighway MohaviSoul Randy Hanson rthanson@cox.net Mandolin,Guitar,Bass Instrumental

According to Harvard Business school researcher Michael Norton, giving money to others actually makes you happier. But how you give makes a huge difference.

Giving money to others makes you happier...if they're the right others

poncie13

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