Lab Girl

MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds · Jun 23, 2026 · 1m · transcript

Hope Jahren always felt at home in her father's science lab in southern Minnesota. Decades on, Britt Aamodt tells us, the geobotanist has distilled the lessons learned from a life in science in a celebrated memoir.

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Producer: Britt Aamodt

Editorial support: Emily Krumberger

Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood

Image: Chemistry laboratory, 1907 [credit: Collection Minnesota Historical Society].

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