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STEM Fatale PodcastBonus: Lost Women of Science Season 2 TrailerNo new episode of STEM Fatale this month! Instead we encourage you to check out Season 2 of a different women in science history podcast, the Lost Women of Science. Listen to this bonus ep to hear the trailer!
More about the Lost Women of Science Podcast: https://lostwomenofscience.org/
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STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 083 - Marie Maynard Daly | BiochemistEmma tells Emlyn about the American Biochemist, Dr. Marie Maynard Daly.
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Main Story - Marie Maynard Daly
Debakcsy, Dale. Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), America's First Black Woman Chemist. Women You Should Know. 2018.
Kessler, James H., et al. Distinguished African American Scientists of the 20th Century. United States, Oryx Press, 1996. https://books.google.com/books?id=-ydHVdMUqdEC&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=false
Marie Maynard Daly | Science History Institute. 2018.
DALY, M M et a...2022-02-2846 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 082 - Annie Dodge Wauneka Part 2 | Public Health ActivistEmlyn tells Emma about public health advocate Annie Dodge Wauneka.
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Main Story - Annie Dodge Wauneka
Niethammer, Carolyn. I’ll Go and Do More: Annie Dodge Wauneka, Navajo Leader and Activist. Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE. 2001.
Women who Work
Here's why whales don't drown when they gulp down food underwater
Anatomical mechanism for protecting the airway in the largest animals on earth: Current Biology
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STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 081 - The 24 Women of STEM-mas - Trivia #4Come play with us! Emma and Emlyn quiz each other about the 24 women of STEMmas we have covered in our podcast so far! How many questions can you answer??
Cheat sheet --> https://twitter.com/STEMFatalePod/status/1474052626589585409?s=20
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Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“No Copyright Music: Christmas Instrumentals” by Heroboard: Music for Creators https://youtu.be/dYyPTy6425U
2021-12-2345 minSTEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 080 - Annie Dodge Wauneka Part 1 | Public Health ActivistEpisode Summary
Emlyn tells Emma about public health advocate Annie Dodge Wauneka.
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Main Story - Annie Dodge Wauneka
Niethammer, Carolyn. I’ll Go and Do More: Annie Dodge Wauneka, Navajo Leader and Activist. Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE. 2001.
Women who Work
https://lostwomenofscience.org/
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Work” by Rihanna
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STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 079 - Deborah S. Jin | PhysicistEmma tells Emlyn about Deborah S. Jin, an atomic physicist that engineered TWO new forms of ultracold matter.
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Main Story - Dr. Deborah S. Jin
Weil, Martin Deborah Jin, government physicist who won MacArthur ‘genius’ grant, dies at 47. Washington Post. 2016.
Deborah Jin Fellowship | Department of Physics | The University of Chicago
Bolometer - Wikipedia
Padavic-Callaghan, Karmela. Deborah Jin engineered new quantum states of matter — twice. Massive Science. 2020.
Siegel, Ethan. Ask Ethan: What's The Difference...2021-10-2551 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 078 - Bessie Blount Griffin | Inventor, Physical Therapist, and Forensic ScientistEmlyn tells Emma about Bessie Blount Griffin, an inventor, physical therapist, and forensic scientist.
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Main Story - Bessie Blount Griffin
Amisha Padnani. Overlooked No More: Bessie Blount, Nurse, Wartime Inventor and Handwriting Expert. New York Times. March 27, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/obituaries/bessie-blount-overlooked.html
Elena Ferrarin. Bessie Blount Griffin: A Black Woman's Journey to Pioneering Forensic Scientist. True Crime Blog: Stories & News, A & E. March 9, 2021. https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/bessie-blount-griffin
"Bessie Blou...2021-09-2049 minSTEM Fatale PodcastAnnouncement - Summer Break!We'll be taking a summer break but will be back in September to talk about more awesome STEMinists!
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STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 077 - Edna Paisano | Statistician & SociologistEmma tells Emlyn all about Edna Paisano, the woman who combined her skills in mathematics and sociology to make the US Census more inclusive!
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Main Story - Edna Lee Paisano
Edna L. Paisano | Obituaries | lmtribune.com
Sterrett, Andrew. 101 Careers in Mathematics. 1996. https://archive.org/details/101careersinmath0000unse/page/136/mode/2up?q=paisano
U.S. Census Bureau. We, the First Americans. 1993. https://www.census.gov/prod/cen1990/wepeople/we-5.pdf
U.S. Census Bureau. “Ch. 5: Americ...2021-05-2658 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 076 - Inez Whipple Wilder | Herpetologist & AnatomistEpisode Summary
Emlyn tells Emma all about herpetologist and anatomist Inez Whipple Wilder!
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Main Story - Inez Whipple Wilder
Houck, Max M. (2016). Forensic Fingerprints. Elsevier Science. pp. 63–64. ISBN 978-0-12-800672-6.
The Morphology of Amphibian Metamorphosis, Smith College, 1925
Wilder, Inez W. 1913 The life history of Desmognathus fusca. The Biological Bulletin. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/BBLv24n4p251
“Inez Whipple Wilder,” Wikipedia.
Kirakosian, K.V., Swedlund, A.C. Glass Cabine...2021-05-0349 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 075 - Marietta Blau | PhysicistAlternate Title: Overcome with Emulsion
Emma tells Emlyn all about Marietta Blau, the physicist that developed photographic emulsion technology in order to discover and describe subatomic particles and their behavior!
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Main Story - Marietta Blau
Perlmutter, A.. “Marietta Blau's Work After World War II.” arXiv: History and Philosophy of Physics (2001). https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0110028
Sime, Ruth L. “Marietta Blau: Pioneer of Photographic Nuclear Emulsions and Particle Physics.” Physics in Perspective...2021-04-121h 10
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 074 - Janaki Ammal | Cytologist & BotanistAlternate Title: The Sweet Smell of Success
Emlyn tells Emma about the Indian cytologist and plant breeder, Dr. Janaki Ammal!
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Main Story - Dr. Janaki Ammal
“Pioneering Female Botanist Who Sweetened a Nation and Saved a Valley” by Leila McNeill, Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/pioneering-female-botanist-who-sweetened-nation-and-saved-valley-180972765/
Follow Leila McNeil @LEILASEDAI on twitter, check out her website (http://www.leilamcneill.com/) and the Lady Science Magazine (https://www.ladyscience.com/).
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STEM Fatale PodcastShort Stories 5 - Jimena Quirós | OceanographerAlternate Title: The Oceanographer
Emma tells a short story about Spain's first oceanographer, Jimena Quirós.
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Sources
Lozano, Pablo. "Jimena Quirós: the Civil War cut short the career of the first oceanographer in the history of Spain." Oceánicas. 2018. Translated by Google Translate. https://oceanicas.ieo.es/jimena-quiros-la-primera-oceanografa-en-la-historia-de-espana-cuya-carrera-trunco-la-guerra/
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
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https://mujeresconciencia.com/2019/12/05/jimena-quiros-oceanografa/
2021-03-0813 min
STEM Fatale PodcastShort Stories 4 - Geraldine Pittman Woods | NeuroembryologistAlternate Title: The Facilitator
Emma tells a short story about Dr. Geraldine Pittman Woods, the neuroembryologist turned science administrator and advocate for minorities in STEM.
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1. Warren, Wini. Black women scientists in the United States. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1999. https://archive.org/details/blackwomenscient00warr/page/269/mode/1up
2. Woo, Elaine. "Geraldine Woods; Scientist Helped Launch Head Start." Los Angeles Times. 2000. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-05-mn-50930-story.html
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STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 073 - Jessie Isabelle Price | BacteriologistAlternate Title: The Duchess of Duck Disease
Emlyn tells Emma about the bacteriologist and duck disease expert, Dr. Jessie Isabelle Price!
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Main Story - Jessie Price
Wikipedia, “Jessie Isabelle Price”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Isabelle_Price
"Doctor to Long Island Ducks". Ebony. September 1964.
Find a Grave, “Dr. Dorsey William Bruner.” Dr Dorsey William Bruner (1906-1996)
Gillmer, S. (2018, August 04) Jessie Isabelle Price (1930-2015). https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/price-jessie-isabelle-1930-2015/
“Dr. Jess...2021-02-0843 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 072 - Helia Bravo Hollis | BotanistAlternate Title: Bravo, Helia!
Emma tells Emlyn about the famous botanist and Queen of Cacti, Helia Bravo Hollis!
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Main Story - Helia Bravo Hollis
Aguilar-Rocha, M. A lifetime among Cacti: Helia Bravo-Hollis – Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Natural History Museum. Bravo Hollis, Helia (1901-2001) on JSTOR.
Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Mexican Revolution". Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 May. 2020, https://www.britannica.com/event/Mexican-Revolution.
Lopez, Alberto. Helia Bravo Hollis, la reina de los cactus. El País...2021-01-2549 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 071 - Hertha Aryton | Engineer & InventorAlternate Title: Fans of Ayrton
Emlyn tells Emma about the genius engineer, mathematician, physicist, inventor, and suffragette, Hertha Aryton.
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Main Story - Hertha Ayrton
“The Life and material culture of Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854-1923): suffragette, physicist, mathematician, and inventor” by Elizabeth Bruton. Science Museum Group Journal. Autumn 2018, Issue 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/181002
“Meet Hertha Ayrton, the mathematician who cleared WWI trenches of poisonous gas” by Joan Meiners. June 5th, 2020. Massive Science. https://massivesci.com/articles/hertha-ayrton-mathematics-bodichon-electric-arc/
Wikipedia, “Hertha Ayrton”. ht...2021-01-041h 02
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 070 - The 24 Women of STEM-mas - Trivia #3Come play with us! Emma and Emlyn quiz each other about the 24 women of STEMmas we have covered in our podcast so far! How many questions can you answer??
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Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“No Copyright Music: Christmas Instrumentals” by Heroboard: Music for Creators https://youtu.be/dYyPTy6425U
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STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 069 - Nettie Maria Stevens | GeneticistAlternate Title: Sex Cells
Emma tells Emlyn about the geneticist Dr. Nettie Maria Stevens, who was one of the first scientists to discover sex determination by chromosomes.
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Main Story - Nettie Maria Stevens
Brush, S. (1978). Nettie M. Stevens and the Discovery of Sex Determination by Chromosomes. Isis, 69(2), 163-172. Retrieved November 23, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/230427
Ogilvie, M., & Choquette, C. (1981). Nettie Maria Stevens (1861-1912): Her Life and Contributions to Cytogenetics. Proceedings of the American Ph...2020-11-301h 07
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 068 - Susan La Flesche Picotte | PhysicianAlternate Title: La Flesche and Blood
Emlyn tells Emma about Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American physician, who used her training and expertise to campaign for social reform and health care in her Omaha community.
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Main Story - Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte
“The Incredible Legacy of Susan La Flesche, The First Native...2020-11-101h 07
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 067 - Frances Glessner Lee | Forensic ScientistAlternate Title: In a Nutshell
Emma tells Emlyn all about the designer of the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, Captain Frances Glessner Lee, who was incredibly influential in the development of early forensic science in the United States.
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Main Story - Frances Glessner Lee
Melinek, Judy, and Goldfarb, Bruce. 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics. United States, Sourcebooks, 2020.
The Nutshell Studies. (99 Perc...2020-10-2657 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 066 - Joan Clarke | Cryptanalyst & NumismatistAlternate Title: An Enigmatic Woman
Emlyn tells Emma about the cryptanalyst and numismatist Joan Clarke, who worked as a codebreaker for the British army during WWII.
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Main Story - Joan Clarke
“Joan Clarke, woman who cracked Enigma cyphers with Alan Turing” by Joe Miller , BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29840653
“100 years ago: Joan Clarke” by American Mathematical Society. https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201703/rnoti-p252.pdf
“The Enigma of Joan Clarke...2020-10-0549 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 065 - Xia Peisu | Computer ScientistAlternate Title: Receive One's Compliment
Emma tells Emlyn about Xia Peisu, a key founder of China’s electronic computing industry.
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Main Story - Xia Peisu
Benavente, Rocío P. “Xia Peisu, the Chinese mother of computing.” Mujeres con Ciencia. 2020. https://mujeresconciencia.com/2020/05/14/xia-peisu-la-madre-china-de-la-computacion/
McNeil, Leila. “The computer pioneer who built modern China.” BBC Future. 2020. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200219-xia-peisu-the-computer-pioneer-who-built-modern-china
Wei, Qi. “Xia Peisu, one of the founders of China's computer...2020-09-2147 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 064 - Maryam Mirzakhani | MathematicianAlternate Title: Math Pretzel
Emlyn tells Emma about the amazing mathematician and Fields Medal Winner, Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani.
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Main Story - Maryam Mirzakhani
“STEM HISTORY - Maryam Mirzakhani” by STEMulus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAorhUrYO6c
“Meet the First Woman to Win Math's Most Prestigious Prize “ by Erica Klarreich. https://www.wired.com/2014/08/maryam-mirzakhani-fields-medal/
Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017) by Kasra Rafi. https://www.nature.com/articles/549032a
“Maryam Mirzakhani” Wikipedia article. https...2020-09-081h 21
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 063 - Wangari Muta Maathai | EnvironmentalistAlternate Title: A TREE-mendous Life
Emma tells Emlyn about Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai, the environmentalist, activist, and Nobel Peace Prize winner who founded the grassroots tree-planting campaign, the Greenbelt Movement.
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Main Story - Wangari Maathai
The Green Belt Movement
Maathai, Wangari, Unbowed: a Memoir. William Heinemann, London, 2007.
Wangari Maathai – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2020. Mon. 24 Aug 2020.
Perlez, Jane. “Nairobi Journal; Skyscraper's Enemy Draws a Daily Dose of Scorn.”...2020-08-2454 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 062 - Bertha Parker | Archeologist & AnthropologistAlternate Title: Hollywood and Giant Sloths
Emlyn tells Emma about the pioneering Abenaki archeologist and anthropologist, Bertha Parker, and Emma tells Emlyn about glaciers on Mars!
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Main Story - Bertha Parker
Marranzino, Ashley. “Bertha Parker, the trailblazing first Indigenous North American archaeologist, taught herself how to excavate a site.” Massive Science. https://massivesci.com/articles/bertha-parker-pallan-archaeology-native-american-abenaki-seneca/
Bertha Parker Pallan Cody (1907-1978). Smithsonian Institute Archives. https://www.si.edu/es/object/bertha-parker-pallan-cody-1907-1978:siris_a...2020-08-1247 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 061 - Kono Yasui | CytologistAlternate Title: COALescence
Emma tells Emlyn about Dr. Kono Yasui, an expert plant cytologist and the first woman to receive a doctorate of science in Japan.
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Main Story - Kono Yasui
McNeill, Leila. “How a Pioneering Botanist Broke Down Japan’s Gender Barriers.” Smithsonian Magazine. 2017. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-pioneering-botanist-broke-down-japans-gender-barriers-180967595/
Ochanomizu University “Kono Yasui (1880-1971) - Japan’s First Woman Doctorate of Science.” Ochanomizu University Digital Archives. 2011. http://archives.cf.ocha.ac.jp/e...2020-07-2755 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 060 - Marie Clark Taylor | BotanistAlternate Title: Carpe Diem
Emlyn tells Emma about the legendary botanist, Dr. Marie Clark Taylor, the first African American woman to receive a PhD in botany. Dr. Taylor was not only a top researcher in her field of photomorphogenesis, but she spent much of her career training science teachers in innovative teaching methods that involved the use of plants.
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Main Story - Marie Clark Taylor
“Women of Firsts: Marie Clark Taylor” by Lucy D...2020-07-1343 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 059 - Martha Bernal | PsychologistAlternate Title: Changing Behavior
Emma tells Emlyn about Martha Bernal, a clinical child psychologist and pioneer in the study of ethnic minority psychology.
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Main Story - Martha Bernal
George, M. (2012). Profile of Martha Bernal.In A. Rutherford (Ed.), Psychology's Feminist Voices Multimedia Internet Archive. http://www.feministvoices.com/martha-bernal/
O'Connell, Agnes N & Russo, Nancy Felipe, 1943- (1988). Models of achievement: reflections of eminent women in psychology. Hillsdale, NJ Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
CDC page for “Behavior or Co...2020-06-2955 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 058 - Katherine Johnson | MathematicianAlternate Title: Figuring It Out
Emlyn tells Emma all about Katherine Johnson, the mathematician whose complex calculations of orbital mechanics were essential for sending astronauts safely into space.
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Main Story - Katherine Johnson
“Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician And An Inspiration For 'Hidden Figures,' Dies” by Russell Lewis, NPR: https://www.npr.org/2020/02/24/517784975/katherine-johnson-nasa-mathematician-and-an-inspiration-for-hidden-figures-dies
“Katherine Johnson” by Margot Lee Shetterly, Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00749-3
“The True Story of “Hidd...2020-06-151h 00
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 057 - Eva Crane | Entomologist & Nuclear PhysicistAlternate Title: un-BEE-lievaable
Emma tells Emlyn all about the nuclear physicist turned world-renowned bee researcher, Eva Crane, and Emlyn tells Emma about new research on bumble bee behavior!
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Main Story - Eva Crane
Eva Crane: Bee Scientist 1912-2007. United Kingdom, International Bee Research Assn., 2008. https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/6GwZ2ZkADL4C?hl=en&gbpv=1
Miksha, Ron. “Remembering Eva Crane: Beekeeper and Physicist.” Bad Beekeeping Blog. 2019. https://badbeekeepingblog.com/2019/06/12/remembering-eva-crane-beekeeper-and-physicist/
Marren...2020-05-2650 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 056 - Tilly Edinger | PaleoneurologistAlternate Title: A HEAD of her time
Emlyn tells Emma about Dr. Tilly Edinger, who combined paleontology and neurology to found the field of paleoneurology. She used endocasts of brains of extant and extinct animals to answer questions about brain evolution, provide crucial evidence for cladogenesis, and assess the behavior of extinct animals.
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Main Story
Wilson, Laura. “Tilly Edinger.” Trowelblazers. https://trowelblazers.com/tilly-edinger/
Buchholtz, Emily A. and Ernst-August Seyfarth. “The Study of “Fossil Brains”: Til...2020-05-121h 09
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 055 - Pearl Kendrick/Grace Eldering/Loney Clinton Gordon | Vaccine Creators & Public Health ScientistsAlternate Title: Whoop! (There It Isn't)
Emma tells Emlyn about the scientists that created the first widely used vaccine for whooping cough (pertussis): Dr. Pearl Kendrick, Dr. Grace Eldering, and Loney Clinton Gordon.
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Main Story
Shapiro-Shapin, Carolyn G. “‘A Whole Community Working Together’: Pearl Kendrick, Grace Eldering, and the Grand Rapids Pertussis Trials, 1932-1939.” Michigan Historical Review, vol. 33, no. 1, 2007, pp. 59–85. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20174193.
Killian, Eryn. “The Trailblazer.” University of Michigan Bentley Historical...2020-04-2751 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 054 - Alice Hamilton | Industrial Toxicologist & DoctorAlternate Title: Duke of Occupational Hazards
Emlyn tells Emma about Dr. Alice Hamilton, a scientist, doctor, public health expert, and pioneer in the fields of industrial toxicology and occupational health.
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Main Story - Alice Hamilton
“Pandemics Come and Go But Medical Masks are Eternal” by Virginia Postrel, Bloomberg Opinion. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-10/medical-face-masks-an-illustrated-history
“Celebrating the life of Alice Hamilton, founding mother of occupational medicine” by Dr. Howard Mar...2020-04-1348 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 053 - Rebecca Lee Crumpler | DoctorAlternate Title: A Podcast of Medical Discourses
Emma tells Emlyn about Rebecca Lee Crumpler, who became the first female African American doctor during the American Civil War, and who later treated thousands of freed slaves, along with many others, after the war had ended.
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Main Story - Rebecca Lee Crumpler
Markel, Howard. "Celebrating Rebecca Lee Crumpler, first African-American woman physician." PBS News Hour. 2016. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/celebrating-rebecca-lee-crumpler-first-african-american-physician
Pfatteicher, S. "Crumpler, Rebecca Davis Lee (1831-1895), physician." American National Biography. 2000. https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1201058.
Friend of Hyde...2020-03-3034 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 052 - Clara Barton | NurseAlternate Title: The Angel of the Battlefield
Emlyn tells Emma about Clara Barton, the self-taught nurse who cared for thousands of wounded soldiers and founded the American Red Cross.
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Main Story - Clara Barton
Clara Barton Wikipedia Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Barton
Sawbones podcast, Episode 3 (Bloodletting) Transcript https://maximumfun.org/transcripts/sawbones/transcript-sawbones-bloodletting/
“Founder Clara Barton” by the Red Cross. https://www.redcross.org/content/dam/redcross/enterprise-assets/about-us/history/history-clara-barton-v5.pdf
“The founder of the Red Cr...2020-03-1653 min
STEM Fatale PodcastShort Stories 3 - June Almeida | VirologistAlternate Title: The Virus Photographer
Emma flies solo again this week with a short story about the amazing woman who determined how to image and identify viruses like the coronaviruses, hepatitis B, HIV, rubella, and more!
Website: https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/
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Main Story - June Almeida
Almeida J. (2008). June Almeida (née Hart). BMJ : British Medical Journal, 336 (7659), 1511. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.a434
Booss, J., MD and August, M.J., PhD (2014). Imaging Viruses and Tagging Their Antigens. In To Catch a Virus (eds J. Booss and M.J. August...2020-03-0212 min
STEM Fatale PodcastShort Stories 2 -Anita Hoffmann | AcarologistAlternate Title: Tucked in Ticks
Emma flies solo this week with a short story about the prolific Mexican acarologist, Anita Hoffmann.
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Main Story - Anita Hoffmann
Ortiz, Tila Maria Perez. "Ana Hoffmann Mendizabal." UNAM. 2007. http://www.100.unam.mx/pdf/ana-hoffmann-mendizabal.pdf
Garza, CDE & AAM, Ochoa. Dra. Ana Esther Hoffmann Mendizábal. Artrópodos y Salud. Ene.-Jun., 2016. Vol. 3 No. 1. http://artropodosysalud.com/Publicaciones/No5-Abr2016/2Monografia.pdf
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“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
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STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 051 - Marie Curie | Chemist and Physicist (Part 2)Alternate Title: Curie-ous Elements Part 2
Emma and Emma jointly tell each other about the two-time Nobel Prize winner in both Chemistry and Physics, Dr. Marie Curie! This is part two of our two-part episode!
Website: https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/
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Main Story - Marie Curie
Pasachoff, N. E. Marie Curie and the science of radioactivity. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996. https://books.google.com/books?id=mVCTHbdstdQC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false
NIST.gov. “Marie Curie and the NBS Radium Standards. 1913: The US Curie St...2020-02-0348 minSTEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 050 - Marie Curie | Chemist and Physicist (Part 1)Alternate Title: Curie-ous Elements Part 1
For the 50th episode, Emma and Emma jointly tell each other about the two-time Nobel Prize winner in both Chemistry and Physics, Dr. Marie Curie! This is part one of a two-part episode!
Website: https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/
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Main Story - Marie Curie
Pasachoff, N. E. Marie Curie and the science of radioactivity. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996. https://books.google.com/books?id=mVCTHbdstdQC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false
NIST.gov. “Marie Curie and the NBS Radiu...2020-01-2157 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 049 - 24 Women of STEM-mas Trivia #2Come play with us! Emma and Emlyn quiz each other about the 24 women of STEM-mas we have covered in our podcast this year! How many questions can you answer??
Merch: http://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/merch
Promo: The Psyched Podcast (@pyschedpodcast1)
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STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 048 - Beatrix Potter | Mycologist and WriterAlternate Title: Flopsy, Mopsy, and Fungi
Emma tells Emlyn about the mycologist and famous children's book writer, Beatrix Potter, and Emlyn tells Emma about an eight-year-old girl from Mexico whose IQ rivals Einstein!
New website and merch store: www.stemfatalepodcast.com
Sources
Main Story - Beatrix Potter
Lear, Linda. Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature. 2008. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312369347/page/130
Gardiner, B.G. “Beatrix Potter’s fossils and her interest in geology.” 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101126154132/http://linnean.org/fileadmin/images/Beatrix_Potter/BPotter_fossils.pdf
Debakcsy, Dale. “Mushrooms...2019-12-0427 min
STEM Fatale PodcastHoliday Merch and Delayed Episode!First! We have a new website and some holiday merchandise (www.stemfatalepodcast.com/merch) based on our listener survey! We’re selling high-quality color sticker packs of some our favorite portraits by Caitlin Friesen, covering many different disciplines such as Eugenie Clark, badass shark lady, and Annie Easley, NASA Rocket Scientist! We are super pumped about these stickers and getting to spread more awareness of these ladies. Any proceeds from this merch will go towards making the podcast affordable for us to run, that means costs of equipment, hosting site, website. These would be a great stocking stuffer, Hanukkah gi...2019-12-0200 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 047 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas | ConservationistAlternate Title: Forever Glades
Emlyn tells Emma about the "grande dame of the everglades", conservationist and writer, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, and Emma tells Emlyn about the Broadcom MASTERS middle-school competition winners!
Main Story - Marjory Stoneman Douglas
https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/marjory-stoneman-douglas/
https://www.nwf.org/en/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2000/Conservation-Hall-of-Fame-Marjory-Stoneman-Douglas
http://scholar.library.miami.edu/msdouglas/river_of_grass.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjory_Stoneman_Douglas
Women who Werk
Perkins, Sid. “Teen auto-safety researcher nabs $25,000 science fair prize.” Science News for Students. 2019. https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/blog...2019-11-1854 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 046 - Yamei Kin | DoctorAlternate Title: Like Brains and Sweetbreads
Emma tells Emlyn about the Chinese doctor who merged eastern and western medicine and brought soy to the US, Yamei Kin, and Emlyn tells Emma about new research unraveling the long-term effects of measles.
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Main Story - Yamei Kin
Biography of Yamei Kin M.D. (1864-1934), (Also Known as Jin Yunmei), the First Chinese Woman t...2019-11-0448 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 045 - Mary the Jewess | AlchemistAlternate Title: Double Double Boiler and Trouble
Emlyn tells Emma about the first Alchemist of the western world, Mary the Jewess, and Emma tells Emlyn about the first all-female space walk!
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Main Story - Mary the Jewess
“Mary the Jewess, First Known Alchemist” by Jone Johnson Lewis. https://www.thoughtco.com/mary-the-jewess-biography-3530346
“Mary the Jewess, An Inventor of Alchemy”, National Li...2019-10-2141 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 044 - Beatrice 'Tilly' Shilling | Aeronautical EngineerAlternate Title: Tilly the Tool Woman Shilling
Emma tells Emlyn about the British aeronautical engineer and amateur racing driver, Beatrice 'Tilly' Shilling, and Emlyn tells Emma about climate activists Autumn Peltier, Xiye Bastida, and Mari Copeny!
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Main Story - Beatrice “Tilly” Shilling
“Magnificent Women: Beatrice Shilling.” Women in Engineering Society. https://www.wes.org.uk/sites/default/files/u82/Magnificent%20Wo...2019-10-0739 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 043 - Katia Krafft | VolcanologistAlternate Title: The Volcano Devils
Emlyn tells Emma about the volcanologist who documented over 175 erupting volcanoes, Katia Krafft, and Emma tells Emlyn about the history of the history of women in science (so meta)!
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Main Story - Katia Krafft
“Maurice and Katia Kraft” Auckland War Memorial Museum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5CAyaRIW8s
“Fire in the Earth, Fire in the Sou...2019-09-2349 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 042 -Ynes Mexia | BotanistAlternate Title: The Late Bloomer
Emma tells Emlyn about Ynes Mexia, the late-blooming botanist that collected over 150,000 plants during her short career, and Emlyn tells Emma about a new climate change podcast, the Warm Regards Podcast!
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Main Story - Ynes Mexia
Siber, Kate. “How Finding Rare Plants Saved Ynes Mexia’s Life.” 2019. Outside Online. https://www.outsideonline.com/2390204/ynes-mexia-plant-collector
Marks, Gab...2019-09-0930 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 041 - Margaret Dayhoff | BioinformaticianAlternate Title: Proteins: Gotta Catch 'Em All!
Emlyn tells Emma about the founder of bioinformatics and modern sequence databases, Dr. Margaret Dayhoff, and Emma tells Emlyn about the winners of the Science Fiction Hugo Awards!
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Main Story - Dr. Margaret Dayhoff
“How Margaret Dayhoff brought Modern Computing to Biology” by Leila McNeill. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-margaret-dayhoff-helped-bring-computing-scientific-research-180971904/
Wikipedia page on...2019-08-2640 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 040 - Mildred Dresselhaus | Physicist & Electrical EngineerAlternate Title: The Queen of Carbon
Emma tells Emlyn about the physicist and electrical engineer, Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus, who studied all things carbon and Emlyn tells Emma about the diet of saber-toothed cats and dire wolves!
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Main Story - Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus
Weil, Martin. “Mildred Dresselhaus, physicist dubbed ‘queen of carbon science,’ dies at 86.” Washington Post. 2017 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nationa...2019-08-1252 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 039 - Frances Oldham Kelsey | PharmacologistAlternate Title: The Drug Detective
Emlyn tells Emma about the FDA scientist, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, that kept the birth-defect causing drug, Thalidomide, off the shelves in the US, and Emma tells Emlyn about the *power* of vitamin supplements!
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Main Story - Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey
Transcripts of Dr. Kelsey: https://www.fda.gov/media/89162/download
"Frances Oldham Kelsey: Medi...2019-07-2953 min
STEM Fatale PodcastShort Stories 1 - Sameera Moussa | Nuclear PhysicistAlternate Title: Communist Cancers
This week we change up the format and talk about TWO historical women in science! Emlyn tells Emma about Dr. Yvonne Barr, who helped discover the first cancer-causing virus in humans, and Emma tells Emma about Dr. Sameera Moussa, an egyptian nuclear physicist who worked to make the medical use of nuclear technology affordable to all!
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Stor...2019-07-1539 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 038 - Vera Rubin | AstronomerAlternate Title: The Dark Side of Matter
Emma tells Emlyn about the astronomer, Dr Vera Rubin, who found the best evidence of dark matter, and Emlyn tells Emma about research showing that male ecologists/zoologists rarely co-author papers with women!
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Main Story - Vera Rubin
Interview of Vera Rubin by Alan Lightman on 1989 April 3, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Ph...2019-06-2443 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 037 - Rachel Carson | Marine Biologist & EnvironmentalistAlternate Title: Conservation Sensation!
Emlyn tells Emma about the marine biologist, writer, and environmentalist, Rachel Carson, and Emma tells Emlyn about a heck of a lot of boss ladies!
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Main Story - Rachel Carson
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson
Women's History: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/rachel-carson
American Chemical Society: https://www.acs.org/content/acs...2019-06-1158 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 036 - Alice Ball | ChemistAlternate Title: The BALLer method
Emma tells Emlyn about the chemist who found an effective treatment for leprosy, and Emlyn tells Emma about emotional contagion in ravens!
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Main Story - Alice Augusta Ball
Brown, Jeannette. African American Women Chemists. Oxford University Press, 2012.
UW School of Pharmacy. “UWSOP alumni legend Alice Ball, Class of 1914, solved leprosy therapy riddle.” 2017. https://sop.washing...2019-05-2743 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 035 - Isabella Aiona Abbott | Phycologist & EthnobotanistAlternate Title: Authoritarian Seaweed
Emlyn tells Emma about the Pacific phycologist and Hawaiian ethnobotanist, Dr. Isabella Aiona Abbott, and Emma tells Emlyn about the body mass index (BMI) of Marvel characters!
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Main Story - Isabella Aiona Abbott
LONG STORY SHORT WITH LESLIE WILCOX. Isabella Aiona Abbott. https://www.pbshawaii.org/long-story-short-with-leslie-wilcox-isabella-aiona-abbott/
Stanford News, Isabella Abbott, world-renowned Stanford algae expert, die...2019-05-1449 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 034 -Hedy Lamarr | InventorAlternate Title: A-Hedy of Her Time
Emma tells Emlyn about the Hollywood star and inventor, Hedy Lamarr, and Emlyn tells Emma about the book, Invisible women! Apologies on this episode, we get excited, and there is quite a bit of audio distortion.
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Main Story - Hedy Lamarr
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. Directed by Alexandra Dean (2017).
George, Alice. “Thank This W...2019-04-3050 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 033 - Marie Tharp | Cartographer & OceanographerAlternate Title: Rift Valleys and Girl Talk
Emlyn tells Emma about the cartographer and oceanographer, Marie Tharp, who mapped the ocean floor and found evidence for continental drift, and Emma tells Emlyn about research on sex differences in spatial reasoning!
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Main Story - Marie Tharp
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute article, “Marie Tharp”: https://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7500&tid=28...2019-04-1545 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 032 - Annie Easley | Mathematician & Rocket ScientistAlternate Title: Easley Does it
Emma tells Emlyn about the NASA computer, mathematician, and rocket scientist, Annie Easley, and Emlyn tells Emma about the first female winner of the Abel Prize, Dr. Karen Uhlenbeck!
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Main Story - Annie J. Easley
Interview of Annie J. Easley by Sandra Johnson, 2001, for the NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project. https://historycollection.jsc...2019-04-0140 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 031 - Florence Nightingale | NurseAlternate Title: Lady with the Lamp (and Owlet)
Emlyn tells Emma about the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale, and Emma tells Emlyn about schoolgirl climate change warrior, Greta Thunberg.
WARNING: This episode gets nasty (i.e. war hospitals in the 1800s).
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Main Story - Florence Nightingale
“Florence Nightingale” by History Channel: https://www.history.com/topics/womens-his...2019-03-1855 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 030 - Zelia Nuttall | Anthropologist & ArcheologistAlternate Title: Terracotta Heads and the Island of Sacrifices
Emma tells Emlyn about the American anthropologist and archeologist, Zelia Nuttall, who spent her life studying remnants of ancient Mexican civilizations, and Emlyn tells Emma about #MeTooSTEM founder, Dr. McLaughlin, and Project PHaEDRA!
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Main Story - Zelia Nuttall
The Archaeologist Who Helped Mexico Find Glory in Its Indigenous Past. McNeil, Lei...2019-03-0456 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 029 - Jane Cooke Wright | Oncologist & SurgeonAlternate Title: The Fairy Godmother of Chemotherapy
Emlyn tells Emma about the revolutionary oncologist and surgeon who contributed immensely to chemotherapy, Dr. Jane Cooke Wright, and Emma tells Emlyn about the hidden female figures behind population genetics!
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Main Story - Jane Cooke Wright
“WOMEN IN SCIENCE: JANE C. WRIGHT REVOLUTIONIZED CANCER RESEARCH (1919-2013)” by Dr. Ellen Elliot. https://www.jax.or...2019-02-1846 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 028 - Florence Bascom | GeologistAlternate Title: The United States of Bascom
Emma tells Emlyn about the American geology pioneer and first woman hired to the USGS, Dr. Florence Bascom, and Emlyn tells Emma about gene drives in mammals!
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Main Story - Dr. Florence Bascom
Arnold, Lois B. “BECOMING A GEOLOGIST: FLORENCE BASCOM IN WISCONSIN, 1874-1887.” Earth Sciences History, vol. 18, no. 2, 1999, pp. 159–179.
Arnold, Lois B. “BECOM...2019-02-0453 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 027 - Rosalind Franklin | X-ray CrystallographerAlternate Title: Our Dark Lady of DNA
Emlyn tells Emma about the x-ray crystallographer, Dr. Rosalind Franklin, who was instrumental in discovering the structure of DNA, and Emma tells Emlyn about "messy" companion stars!
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Main Story - Dr. Rosalind Franklin
“Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment” by Beryl Lieff Benderly https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2018/08/rosalind-franklin-and-damage-gender-harassment
Dainton, Sir Fr...2019-01-211h 03
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 026 - Gertrude Belle Elion |BiochemistAlternate Title: Purine Queen
Emma tells Emlyn about the chemist, Gertrude Belle Elion, who won a Nobel Prize for discovering new ways to treat diseases like leukemia and HIV, and Emlyn tells Emma about the upcoming film about Mary Anning!
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Main Story - Gertrude B. Elion
Gertrude B. Elion – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2019. https://www.nobelprize.org/prize...2019-01-0744 min
STEM Fatale Podcast24 women of STEMmas!Come play with us! Emma and Emlyn quiz each other about the 24 women of STEMmas we have covered in our podcast so far! How many questions can you answer??
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Music
“21 questions" by 50 Cent
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“No Copyright Music: Christmas Instrumentals” by Heroboard: Music for Creators https://youtu.be/dYyPTy6425U
2018-12-2430 minSTEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 024 - Eunice Newton Foote | Climate ScientistAlternate Title: You, Nice Foot!
Emlyn tells Emma about Eunice Newton Foote, the climate scientist who discovered that carbon dioxide was the main cause of global warming, and Emma tells Emlyn about geckos and coffee!
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Main Story - Eunice Newton Foote
The Current, UC Santa Barbara, “Righting a Scientific Wrong”: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018985/righting-scientific-wrong
Wikipedia, “Eunice Newton Foote”: h...2018-12-1041 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 023 - Sofia Kovalevskaya | MathematicsAlternate Title: Name Drops and Spinning Tops
Emma tells Emlyn about the first woman to get at PhD in Mathematics, Dr. Sofia Kovalevskaya, and Emlyn tells Emma about the burden of antimicrobial resistance in the EU!
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Main Story - Sofia (Sonya) Kovalevskaya
Alic, Margaret. (1986) Hypatia's heritage : a history of women in science from antiquity to the late nineteenth century. htt...2018-11-2656 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 022 - Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin | AstrophysicistAlternate Title: No Payne, No Gain
Emlyn tells Emma about the astrophysicist that discovered the composition of the sun and stars, Dr. Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin, and Emma tells Emlyn about midterm election results and the STEMinists headed to Washington!
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Main Story - Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin
American Physics Society NEWS by Richard Williams: https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201501/physicshistory.cf...2018-11-1234 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 021 - Margaret S. Collins | EntomologistAlternate Title: Midtermites!
This week Emma tells Emlyn about the entomologist and civil rights activist (a.k.a. "the termite lady"), Dr. Margaret S. Collins, and Emlyn tells Emma about four female scientists running for office this November in IN, GA, VA, and NV!
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Main Story - Margaret S. Collins
Black Women Scientists in the United States by Wini Warr...2018-10-2945 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 020 - Maria Sibylla Merian | EcologistAlternate Title: MetamoOoOoOorphosis
Emlyn tells Emma about the OG ecologist and professionally-trained artist, Maria Sibylla Merian, who described the life cycle and plant host use of ~200 insect species, and Emma tells Emlyn about the research of Nobel Prize winners Dr. Strickland and Dr. Arnold!
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Main Story - Maria Sibylla Merian
Wikipedia Article on Maria Sibylla Merian: https://en.wikipedia.or...2018-10-1546 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 019 - Edith Clarke | Electrical EngineerAlternate Title: She's Electric! Boogie woogie, woogie!
Emma tells Emlyn about the first female electrical engineer and National Inventor's Hall of Famer, Dr. Edith Clarke, and Emlyn tells Emma about the science of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford!
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Main Story - Edith Clarke
From Computer to Electrical Engineer: The Remarkable Career of Edith Clarke by James Brittain (1985): https://ieeexplore.ieee.org...2018-10-0140 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 018 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell | Nuclear PhysicistAlternate Title: Let's Get Physical
Emlyn tells Emma about Dr. Lise Meitner, the nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission, and Emma tells Emlyn about Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered pulsars!
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Main Story - Lise Meitner
Fission Girl: Lise Meitner’s Escape from Nazi Germany by Melanie Fine
Book Review of Lise Meitner: A Life i...2018-09-171h 01
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 017 - Asima Chatterjee | ChemistAlternate Title: Back to Basics (a.k.a. Alkaloids)
Emma tells Emlyn about one of the first Indian women to receive a PhD, Dr. Asima Chatterjee, who studied the organic chemistry of plants, and Emlyn tells Emma about insects that vomit cooperatively!
Sources
Main Story - Asima Chatterjee
Biography of Asima Chatterjee by Julie Banerji for the Indian National Science Academy. http://www.insaindia.res.in/BM/BM32_0709.pdf
Biography in Science Reporter by Shri Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhyay http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/42878/1/SR%2054%2810%29%2048-50.pdf
Google Arts and Culture Ex...2018-09-0336 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 016 - Roger Arliner Young | Marine BiologistAlternate Title: Young and Just
Emlyn tells Emma about Dr. Roger Arliner Young, the first African American woman to receive a PhD in zoology and publish an article in Science, and Emma tells Emlyn about Dr. Jess Wade, who wrote Wikipedia pages of 270+ female scientists!
Main Story - Roger Arliner Young
The San Diego Supercomputer Center’s Women in Science: https://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/young.html
Zoologist Roger Arliner Young and the Politics of Respectability by Dr. Sara Diaz: https://www.aaihs.org/zoologist-roger-arliner-young-and-the-politics-of-respectability/
Scientific American article by DNLee https://blogs.scien...2018-08-2031 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 015 - Anna Freud | PsychoanalystAlternate Title: PNAS Envy
Emma tells Emlyn about the psychoanalyst, Anna Freud, who pioneered the field of child therapy and Emlyn tells Emma about how spiders may alter greenhouse emissions in the arctic!
Sources:
Main Story - Anna Freud
Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth (2008). Anna Freud: A Biography.
Anna Freud Biography by the Institute of Psychoanalysis. http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/our-authors-and-theorists/anna-freud
Anna Freud Biography by the Freud Museum. https://www.freud-museum.at/online/freud/themen/anna2-e.htm
Gay, Peter (1988). Freud: A Life for Our Time.
“Why Freud Survives” by Louis Menand. ht...2018-08-0646 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 014 - Eugenie Clark | IchthyologistAlternate Title: Gangsters of the Deep
Emlyn tells Emma about the amazing ichthyologist and renown 'Shark Lady', Dr. Eugenie Clark, and Emma tells Emlyn about Melissa Cristina Márquez being bitten by a crocodile while filming for Shark Week!
Sources:
Main Story - Dr. Eugenie Clark
Biography by NOAA: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/news/may15/eugenie-clark.html
Natural Shark Repellent is Alluring to Scientists (1981): https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/20/science/natural-shark-repellent-is-alluring-to-scientists.html
‘Shark Lady’ Eugenie Clark, Famed Marine Biologist, Has Died: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/150225-eugenie-clark-shark-lady-marine-biologist-obituary-science/
Obituary by Robert D. McFadden: https...2018-07-3039 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 013 - Dorothy Crawfoot | Protein CrystallographerAlternate Title: Crystal Math
Emlyn tells Emma about the founder of protein crystallography, Dr. Dorothy Crawfoot Hodgkin, and Emma tells Emlyn about how spiders use electric fields to balloon!
Sources:
Main Story - Dorothy Hodgkin
The Nobel Prize: https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1964/hodgkin-bio.html
Royal Society of Chemistry: http://www.rsc.org/diversity/175-faces/all-faces/dorothy-hodgkin-om-frs/
Science History Institute: https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/dorothy-crowfoot-hodgkin
Ferry, Georgina. (2014) Dorothy Hodgkin: on proteins and patterns. The Lancet,Volume 384, Issue 9953, Pp. 1496-1497.
"Principles, Structure and Activities of Pugwash For t...2018-07-2346 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 012 - Katsuko Saruhashi | GeochemistAlternate Title: Rubber Duckies and Sea-O2
Emma tells Emlyn about the geochemist, Dr. Katsuko Saruhashi, who studied how fast nuclear fallout travels through the ocean, and Emlyn tells Emma about one of the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awardees!
Sources:
Main Story - Katsuko Saruhashi
Biography by Sumiko Hatakeyama: https://japanfeministdebates.wordpress.com/2016/11/30/a-life-story-of-saruhashi-katsuko-1920-2007/
Jacob Darwin Hamblin and Linda M. Richards. 2015. Beyond the Lucky Dragon: Japanese Scientists and Fallout Discourse in the 1950s. Historia Scientiarum. 25(1). https://jacobdarwinhamblin.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/hamblin-richards-lucky-dragon-2015.pdf
A Woman Scientist and the Daigo Fukuryū-maru Acc...2018-07-1638 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 011 - Mary Golda Ross | Space EngineerAlternate Title: Fire Planes and the Avian Industry Explosion
This week, Emlyn tells Emma about the Cherokee rocket scientist (i.e. space engineer!), Mary Golda Ross, and Emma tells Emlyn about Earth's core and about why it matters how you refer to female scientists.
Sources:
Main Story - Mary Golda Ross
Article by Cherokee Pheonix newspaper: http://www.cherokeephoenix.org/Article/Index/2470
Article by Society of Women Engineers: http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/spring14/index.php#/34
Williams JK. Mary Golda Ross: The first native american female engineer. New York Amsterdam News. M...2018-07-0942 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 010 - Sally Ride | Physicist/AstronautAlternate Title: Ride Sally Ride!
Emma tells Emlyn about the first American woman and LGBTQ+ astronaut in space, Dr. Sally Ride, and Emlyn tells Emma about mammals going nocturnal and narwhal sounds!
Sources:
Main Story - Sally Ride
Article by astronaut and engineer Dr. Bonnie J. Dunbar: https://theconversation.com/astronaut-sally-k-rides-legacy-encouraging-young-women-to-embrace-science-and-engineering-97371
Interview by Rebecca Wright for NASA in 2002: https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/RideSK/RideSK_10-22-02.htm
Interview by Gloria Steinem in 1983 after Sally’s first space flight : https://blankonblank.org/interviews/sally-ride-space-shuttle-first-woman-space-nasa/#read-more
Obituary in the...2018-07-0248 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 009 - Louise Pearce | PathologistAlternate title: 125 Syphilis Rabbits
Emlyn tells Emma about the queer scientist who helped develop treatments for African Sleeping Sickness and Syphilis, Dr. Louise Pearce, and Emma tells Emlyn about the organizations 500 Women Scientists and 500 Queer Scientists!
Sources
Main Story - Louise Pearce
Chung, K., 1943. (2010). Women pioneers of medical research: Biographies of 25 outstanding scientists. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland.
https://greenwichvillagehistory.wordpress.com/tag/heterodoxy/
Further reading: Schwarz, J. (1982). Radical feminists of Heterodoxy : Greenwich Village, 1912-1940. Lebanon, N.H.: New Victoria Publishers.
Women who werk
500 Women Scientists ha...2018-06-2546 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 008 - Sarah Elizabeth Stewart | Viral OncologistAlternate Title: Tumor Has It
Emma tells Emlyn about Sarah Elizabeth Stewart, a Mexican-American researcher who convinced the world that cancer-causing viruses were real, and Emlyn tells Emma about how pollution may promote alzheimers and about Bonobo "doulas"! This episode gets a bit raunchy when we talk about bonobos. You have been warned.
Sources:
Main Story - Sarah Elizabeth Stewart
Obituary by John P. Utz: http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/canres/37/12/4674.full.pdf
Biography by Carl Fulghieri and Sharon Bloom in Emerging Infectious Diseases: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/a...2018-06-1854 minSTEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 000 - STEM Fatale PromoLearn what this pod is all about!
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STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 007 - Grace Hopper | Computer ScientistAlternate Title: The Amazing Grace
Emlyn tells Emma about the U.S. Rear Admiral and Computer Scientist, Grace Hopper, and Emma tells Emlyn about the dangers of traveling to mars and the importance of seagrass beds!
SOURCES:
Main Story - Grace Hopper
Biography of Grace Hopper: https://www.biography.com/people/grace-hopper-21406809
Navy Biography: https://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/ddg70/Pages/namesake.aspx
https://president.yale.edu/biography-grace-murray-hopper
Amazing Women in History: http://www.amazingwomeninhistory.com/amazing-grace-hopper-computer-programmer/
New York Time Obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/03/us/rear-adm-grace-m-hopper-dies-innovator-in-computers-was-85.html
Computer History Podcast: http...2018-06-1148 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 006 - Rita Levi-Montalcini | NeurobiologistAlternate Title: NERVE-ana: In Utero
Emma tells Emlyn about the Italian neurobiologist and nobel laureate, Rita Levi-Montalcini, and Emlyn tells Emma about the mathematical rules of living cells and about males that choose very, very bad mates.
Sources
Main Story - Rita Levi Montalcini
Biography in Treccani http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/rita-levi-montalcini_(Dizionario-Biografico)/
Biography in Neurological Sciences https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10072-013-1303-2
Obituary: https://source.wustl.edu/2013/01/obituary-nobel-laureate-rita-levimontalcini/
Biography in Trends in Cell Biology https://www.cell.com/trends/cell-biology/fulltext/S0962-8924(04)00143-6?_returnURL=https...2018-06-0449 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 005 - Chien-Shiung Wu | PhysicistAlternate Title: A Parody of Parity
Emlyn tells Emma about the "First Lady of Physics," Chien-Shiung Wu, and Emma tells Emlyn about horses remembering human emotions and about the winner of the AWIS Pinnacle Award!
Sources
Main Story - Chien-Shiung Wu
Atomic Heritage Foundation: https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/chien-shiung-wu
National Women’s Hall of Fame: https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/chienshiung-wu/
American National Biography: https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1302686
Madame Wu and the Holiday Experiment That Changed Physics Forever: https://gizmodo.com/madame-wu-and-the-holiday-experiment-that-changed-physi-1749319896
Inside Story: C S Wu...2018-05-2856 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 004 - Barbara McClintock | CytogeneticistAlternate Title: The A-MAIZE-ing Race
Emma tells Emlyn about the "Mother of Chromosomes," Barbara McClintock, and Emlyn tells Emma about the Bajau people and why male fruit flies like to mate. This episode gets a bit raunchy when we talk about fruit flies. You have been warned.
Sources:
Main Story - Barbara McClintock
A Feeling for the Organism by Evelyn Fox Keller
The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control by Nathaniel C. Comfort
The Barbara McClintock Papers - NIH https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/re...2018-05-211h 03
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 003 - Lillian Moller Gilbreth | EngineerAlternate Title: She Dozen Have it All
Emlyn tells Emma about the engineer who inspired "Cheaper by the Dozen," Lillian Moller Gilbreth, and Emma tells Emlyn about self-medicating orangutans and the winner of the NSF Waterman Award!
Sources
Main Story - Lillian Moller Gilbreth
The Economist; Gurus; Frank and Lillian Gilbreth https://www.economist.com/node/12060343
The management theory of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth. https://www.business.com/articles/management-theory-of-frank-and-lillian-gilbreth/
Remembering the Contributions of Engineer Lillian Gilbreth. http://alltogether.swe.org/2017/08/remembering-contributions-engineer-lillian-gilbreth/
Feminist Voices, Profile: Lillian Gilbreth. https://ww...2018-05-1444 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 002 - Mamie Phipps Clark | PsychologistAlternate Title: Doleful Dolls
Emma tells Emlyn about the psychologist Mamie Phipps Clark who conducted the doll test for racial self-hate and Emlyn tells Emma about sea ice algae and how to keep your junk safe!
Sources:
Main Story - Mamie Phipps Clark
An interview of Mamie Clark by Ed Edwin from 1976
Encyclopedia.com; Clark, Mamie Phipps https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/clark-mamie-phipps
Psychology’s Feminist Voices; Profile: Mamie Phipps Clark. https://www.feministvoices.com/mamie-phipps-clark/
“The Doll Test for Racial Self-Hate; Did it Ever Make Sense.” https://www.theroot.com/the-doll...2018-05-1450 min
STEM Fatale PodcastEpisode 001 - Mary Anning | PaleontologistAlternate Title: Pleasing Plesiosaurs
Emlyn tells Emma about "the greatest fossilist the world ever knew," Mary Anning, and Emma tells Emlyn about the science of farting embarassment, the fate of frogs, and sea turtle kerplunking!
Sources:
Main Story - Mary Anning
Emling, Shelley (2011) The Fossil Hunter : Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/anning.html
Wikipedia
Women who werk
How to deal with embarrassing situations: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180327102814.htm
Frogs rebounding from chytrid fung...2018-05-141h 12