Hey pal! Like and subscribe! Hey Kid! What are you supposed to be? Obviously I'm a Doctor of Storytelling Is that even a thing? Storytelling is an art and a science Are you telling me that you're
some kind of a doctor now?!? I'm ignoring you now. Ugh. Very sus..... You know, I know that you are
used to seeing women in the world who are doctors and scientists They go into outer space. They're explorers.
But once upon a time women were told: You cannot do that! Preposterous!
Outrageous! Yet true. Women were not
allowed in most universities especially the programs that taught
science and medicine, even law Unbelievable!
Nonsensical! But true. So when you hear about famous
scientists of the world you usually hear about men But not today because today we have
Women in Science Who Changed the World! Something doesn't make sense.
What, cowboy Green Bear? If women couldn't study science, how
did they get to become scientists? Yeah, especially the world-changing kind. Well, Bears, where there's a will, there's a way. I don't get it. Okay Red Bear, let me put it this way. You know how Green Bear is not
allowed to eat cookies before dinner? Yeah!
HehHehHehHeh... But somehow, he always manages to
eat the cookies before dinner anyway? Yeah! He wants them so bad that he finds
a way-- oh! I think I just figured it out. Mm-hmm? When you really want something,
you find a way to make it happen! Where there's a will, there's a way! I don't know what either of you
are talking about... Mm-hmm... Now let's see what incredible things these
Women in Science did despite all the NO's in the way We begin with Maria Sibylla
Merian, an entomologist. That is somebody who studies
bugs ,and Maria loved bugs. "In my youth, I spent my
time investigating insects." Crawling through gardens, fields and rainforests,
Maria gathered all the bugs she could find. She watched each one and
wondered: What will it do? Her observations taught her
things that no one else knew yet. For example?
How flies were not born from rotten fruit Which was one thing that they thought back then And that caterpillars actually
transform into butterflies. Maria's notes and drawings show the
world some of nature's tiniest miracles. But StoryTeller, everyone in my class was
taught the caterpillars turn into butterflies We all know that! Aha! But someone had to be
the first to discover it. Wow! Good job, Maria! Wang Zhenyi, astronomer. "Are you not convinced
daughters can also be heroic?" Zhenyi lived when most girls
weren't allowed to study science yet she loved to learn about the sun, the moon
and the stars, which is the study of astronomy. She watched as the moon disappeared
into the shadow of the Earth. People said it was Angry Gods! But Zhenyi
thought there might be another explanation. She strung up a globe, a mirror
and a lamp by ropes in her house to learn more about how lunar eclipses
worked, and she taught others what she found Lunar Eclipses -- When the
moon seems to vanish in the sky But it was not Angry Gods, as people thought.
She figured out the science behind the magic. Mary Anning, Paleontologist! Oh oh! That is a scientist who likes to
find and study the fossils of my ancestors! That is correct, Doug the Dinosaur! And she said: "Did you know I had a dog named Tray
who liked to go on Expeditions with me?" Arf! Arf! Mary's father showed her how to explore the
seaside cliffs of England after a storm. Now mud often slid away to
reveal Hidden Treasures! One day, Mary found a bony face in the mud. A bony face in the mud?!?!E
DUN DUN DUN!!!! When she chipped away the dirt, she
found fossilized ribs, a spine, and legs. It was the world's first
complete Plesiosaurus Skeleton! Mary kept searching for,
sketching, and studying fossils, and her discoveries helped other
scientists learn more about dinosaurs And to find the complete skeleton of any
dinosaur is considered the gold standard. Marie Curie, physicist and chemist. And French. OohLaLa! "Nothing in life is to be feared!
It is only to be understood." Marie was curious about elements --
substances found naturally in the earth. While studying pitchblende... Uh... pitchblende?
Uh-huh? It's not ringing any bells... Well I was today years old when
I learned that pitchblende is... a radioactive, uranium-rich mineral
and rock also known as Uraninite. See? Never stopped learning. So she was studying pitchblende when she discovered two new elements
hidden within the pitchblende! Marie named these elements radium and polonium. Through experiments, Marie learned how
x-rays could help injured soldiers. That's right. Her discoveries
of these elements led to X-rays And they were helping injured soldiers. She also studied how radiation
could help people with cancer Marie was the first person ever
to win two - TWO - Nobel Prizes and was voted in 2009 - long after she had left the Earth - as the most
inspirational woman in science. Janaki Ammal -- she was a botanist - someone who
loves learning about how plants and flowers grow "I am a born wanderer. There
is a great restlessness in me." Ah yes... a great restlessness is the
hallmark of so many pioneering people who just want to know more. Now Janaki was from India, and her country
India had a problem with its sugar. It wasn't sweet!
That's a huge problem! Right? NOT sweet sugar? What's the point?! The people had to bring in sugar cane
from elsewhere, which could be expensive Janaki studied the plant and created a new
sweet sugar cane that could thrive in India. She wrote a book about thousands of plants and
talked about ways to preserve India's plant life And that book that she wrote back in 1940
is still considered essential for botany And I do believe she was the first
female botanist in all of India Right you are, Ferra Fox. Katherine Johnson -- Mathematician "I asked questions. I wanted to know why." From the time Katherine was little,
she was curious about numbers. She was so smart... get this She was so smart that she started High
School when she was only 10 years old! Wow! What a brain, right? After finishing school, Katherine went to
work for the country's Space Program: NASA She made sure all the equations were right to
send the first man in orbit around the Earth And Katherine also helped calculate the
path for the first rocket to the moon! And this was BEFORE computers!
All that math she did?? Up here! First rocket to the moon, you say?
I do say. I suppose now you're going
to make some kind of a joke about how her accomplishments
are "out of this world"? Well I don't have to because
you already said it for me UGH And I'm "over the moon" about it! UGH! How did you do that?!? I'm a doctor of Storytelling, that's how. Jane Cooke Wright, oncologist. Those are the doctors that
specialize in beating cancer. "Work hard, persevere,
collaborate with one another, be pioneers in the field
and keep up the good fight" Collaborate with one another...
in case you don't know... That's a big big beautiful
word that means work together Jane wanted to be a doctor just like her father and she decided to study cancer because it
was a disease that made so many people sick without a way to get better Jane worked hard and discovered new
medicines that would fight cancer She wrote more than a hundred papers
about how to treat the disease and that helped other doctors who would read
the papers and know how to treat their patients So many lives were saved! Because of Jane's research,
doctors all over the world learned how they could help
sick people get well again And fun fact: They called her the "Mother of
Chemotherapy" for the incredible treatments that she pioneered that are still in
use today, decades and decades later. Jane Goodall, famous
primatologist and conservationist. Primatologist: a scientist who studies primates.
You know... Monkeys, Gorillas, Apes... Oh my! "What you do makes a difference, and you have to
decide what kind of difference you want to make." That's a really good thought. Jane did not study in a laboratory.
Oh no. She studied in the trees! Jane lived in Africa alongside
her favorite animals: Chimpanzees. She waited and watched and wrote
down everything she learned. And thanks to Jane's observations, we understand
that chimps can use tools and feel emotions like sadness or love, just like us! Today, Jane teaches others about the
importance of protecting all living things. These scientists were brave enough to solve
problems and give knowledge to the world. They weren't afraid of being
the only ones in their fields! They weren't stopped by all the NO's they got! Because they had a vision and a
purpose, and what was that saying? Where there's a will, there's a way, partner! So, you block out the NO's,
focus on your life's mission and you, too, just like these women
of science, will make the world better
