# Alice Ball

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Alice Ball’s Hidden Cure

Join Ben & Pia for an INCREDIBLE historical adventure about Alice Ball, a young chemist who turned a stubborn tree oil into a life-changing treatment in early 1900s Honolulu! This episode uncovers science, kindness, and a name that almost vanished. Perfect for curious minds who love experiments, g…

HER NAME WAS ALICE BALL...

Send us Fan Mail A YOUNG BLACK GENIUS... SHE DISCOVERED HOW TO CURE LEPROSY... GIVING THOSE PEOPLE THEIR LIVES BACK... THEY ARE BURNING THE HOUSE DOWN WITH US IN IT.

4. Hope

A key theme of this series is that there is hope. Reading problems are solvable, and in this episode, we explain what it takes to do that, and that we can achieve far more than is usually thought possible. For people who mastered reading as children, it can be difficult to imagine the life-changing…

3. Reading: Second Nature?

As a society, we have a wide range of explanations for why so many can’t read after eleven years of formal education, including deprivation, lack of intelligence, poor motivation, and presumed disabilities. In this episode, we show how those beliefs don’t hold water and instead show that teaching i…

2. Locked Out

The correlation between imprisonment and poor literacy is strong. While correlation is not cause, there is no doubt that poor literacy increases the chances of incarceration, and that it makes it much harder for prison to have a positive impact. In this episode, you’ll hear experts describe the lin…

1. The Silent Epidemic

The number of people who lack basic literacy skills is of epidemic proportions, but most able readers will never know that friends, colleagues or relatives can’t read properly. In this episode, we explore what ‘functional’ illiteracy means, the multi-faceted impacts on all aspects of their lives, a…

Fun Facts About Overlooked Scientists

Throughout history, female scientists have made significant contributions to science while frequently remaining unrecognized for their work. From early botanical documentation to astrophysics, women have continually driven significant scientific progress. For example, Anna Atkins pioneered photogra…

27: Alice Ball

Leprocy has haunted civilization since Biblical times. This is the story of how a young professor finally found the treatment for it, only to have her work stolen by a man after her untimely death.Follow the show wherever you get your podcasts, and if you enjoy this episode, leave us a rating and a…

The Chemist Who Was Erased - Alice Ball, 1892–1916

In the early twentieth century, a diagnosis of leprosy in Hawaii meant lifelong exile to the remote Kalaupapa peninsula. Alice Ball, a brilliant young Black chemist, cracked the chemical problem that had defeated doctors for decades, turning chaulmoogra oil into the first effective treatment for Ha…

Don't Let Love Erode (From our 8-30-26 worship)

Watch the video version here:  Don't Let Love Erode (From our 8-30-26 worship) In this lesson from 2 John, we look at how biblical love is rooted in truth—and how that love can either grow or slowly erode if we stop walking in God’s commands. The sermon begins with the remarkable story of chemist A…