NOVA

The Unique Challenges of Being a Black Woman in STEM

Women face widespread discrimination in science. Chemist Dr. Raychelle Burks discusses the additional challenges for those with intersectional identities.

The Unique Challenges of Being a Black Woman in STEM

3m 7s

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    Solar System: Strange Worlds

    S51 E10 - 53m 34s

    From a dwarf planet that looks like a deflated football, to a tiny moon with cliffs taller than Mt. Everest, to the spectacular rings of Saturn, discover how the effects of gravity produce the amazing variety of weird worlds in our solar system.

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    Solar System: Storm Worlds

    S51 E9 - 53m 34s

    Out in the solar system, the weather gets wacky – with globe-spanning dust storms, monsoons of liquid methane, and lightning 10 times stronger than here on Earth. Discover the forces driving the dramatic weather on neighboring planets and moons.

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    Tides of Tradition

    9m 47s

    Kanesia McGlashan-Price (Unalaska, Alaska) - Communities like the Unangax̂ rely on traditional foodways in lieu of customary, expensive grocery suppliers. Following the journey of a local subsistence hunter, we learn the realities of food access in the changing Arctic and the values that inform their harvest.

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