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Consider This: A Victorian-Era Spider-Woman Being Celebrated At Harvard

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A new online exhibition at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology is pulling back the curtain on forgotten women in science.

Consider This cohost Paris Alston speaks with WBUR senior arts reporter Andrea Shea, who has been learning more about one woman in particular: Elizabeth Bangs Bryant, who focused on identifying, cataloging, and in some cases discovering spider species at Harvard in the 19th century.

This segment aired on May 7, 2021.

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