Episodes
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Episode 083 - Marie Maynard Daly | Biochemist
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Emma tells Emlyn about the American Biochemist, Dr. Marie Maynard Daly.
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Sources
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 al. “CHOLESTEROL CONCENTRATION AND CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS IN AORTAS OF RATS WITH RENAL HYPERTENSION.” The Journal of clinical investigation vol. 42,10 (1963): 1606-12. doi:10.1172/JCI104845
- Marie M. Daly PhD Memorial Celebration | Graduate Programs in the Biomedical Sciences | Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Women who Work
- Paper: During, M.A.D., Smit, J., Voeten, D.F.A.E. et al. The Mesozoic terminated in boreal spring. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04446-1
- Additional Paper: DePalma, R.A., Oleinik, A.A., Gurche, L.P. et al. Seasonal calibration of the end-cretaceous Chicxulub impact event. Sci Rep 11, 23704 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-03232-9
- Video: An asteroid killed dinosaurs in spring—which might explain why mammals survived | Ars Technica
- Uppsala University. "The last day of the dinosaurs." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 23 February 2022.
. - “Fossil fish reveal timing of asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.” by Colin Barras. Nature News, 23 February 2022.
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Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Work” by Rihanna
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Monday Feb 03, 2020
Episode 051 - Marie Curie | Chemist and Physicist (Part 2)
Monday Feb 03, 2020
Monday Feb 03, 2020
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/
Sources
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 Standard.” 2009. https://www.nist.gov/pml/marie-curie-and-nbs-radium-standards/1913-us-curie-standard
- American Institute of Physics and Naomi Pasachoff. “Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity.” 2004. https://history.aip.org/history/exhibits/curie/sitemap.htm
- Des Jardins, Julie. “Madame Curie’s Passion.” Smithsonian Magazine. 2011. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/madame-curies-passion-74183598/
- Froman, Nanny. “Marie and Pierre Curie and the discovery of polonium and radium.” NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2020. 1996. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/marie-and-pierre-curie-and-the-discovery-of-polonium-and-radium
- American Institute of Physics. “Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity.” https://history.aip.org/history/exhibits/curie/stud1.htm
- Tasch, Barbara. “Marie Curie's Belongings Will Be Radioactive For Another 1,500 Years.” Business Insider. 2015. https://www.sciencealert.com/these-personal-effects-of-marie-curie-will-be-radioactive-for-another-1-500-years
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
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Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Episode 050 - Marie Curie | Chemist and Physicist (Part 1)
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
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/
Sources
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 Standard.” 2009. https://www.nist.gov/pml/marie-curie-and-nbs-radium-standards/1913-us-curie-standard
- American Institute of Physics and Naomi Pasachoff. “Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity.” 2004. https://history.aip.org/history/exhibits/curie/sitemap.htm
- Des Jardins, Julie. “Madame Curie’s Passion.” Smithsonian Magazine. 2011. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/madame-curies-passion-74183598/
- Froman, Nanny. “Marie and Pierre Curie and the discovery of polonium and radium.” NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2020. 1996. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/marie-and-pierre-curie-and-the-discovery-of-polonium-and-radium
- American Institute of Physics. “Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity.” https://history.aip.org/history/exhibits/curie/stud1.htm
- Tasch, Barbara. “Marie Curie's Belongings Will Be Radioactive For Another 1,500 Years.” Business Insider. 2015. https://www.sciencealert.com/these-personal-effects-of-marie-curie-will-be-radioactive-for-another-1-500-years
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
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Monday Oct 21, 2019
Episode 045 - Mary the Jewess | Alchemist
Monday Oct 21, 2019
Monday Oct 21, 2019
Alternate 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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SOURCES
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 Library of Israel. https://web.nli.org.il/sites/nli/english/library/reading_corner/pages/maria_the_jewess.aspx
- “Alchemy May Not Have Been the Pseudo-science We All Thought It was” by Richard Conniff. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/alchemy-may-not-been-pseudoscience-we-thought-it-was-180949430/
- “Mary the Jewess” by John H. Lienhard, Engines of Our Ingenuity. https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi964.htm
- “Mary the Jewess”, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_the_Jewess
Women who Werk
- Zraick, Karen. “NASA Astronauts Complete the First All-Female Spacewalk.” New York Times. 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/science/space/nasa-female-spacewalk.html
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Work” by Rihanna
“Double Trouble” by John Williams (Harry Potter - Prisoner of Azkaban soundtrack)
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Engraving depicting Maria Prophetissima from Michael Maier's book Symbola Aurea Mensae Duodecim Nationum (1617).
Monday Jun 10, 2019
Episode 037 - Rachel Carson | Marine Biologist & Environmentalist
Monday Jun 10, 2019
Monday Jun 10, 2019
Alternate 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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Sources
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/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/rachel-carson-silent-spring.html
- Fire Ants Video: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:16-p-1402-2_Fire_Ants_on_Trial.webm
Women who werk
- Jess Wade was awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire! https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/191453/imperial-academics-awarded-honours-queen/
- Xinzhu Wei and Rasmus Nielsen find that mutations in the CCR5 gene that make some people resistant to HIV may also reduce longevity. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-019-0459-6
- Olga Troyanskaya and a team of researchers develop a machine learning model that identified mutations in non-coding regions of the genome that are associated with autism. https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2019/05/27/autism-noncoding-mutations/
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
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Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Monday May 27, 2019
Episode 036 - Alice Ball | Chemist
Monday May 27, 2019
Monday May 27, 2019
Alternate 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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Sources
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.washington.edu/uwsop-alumni-legend-alice-ball-class-of-1914-solved-leprosy-riddle/
- Brewster, Carisa D. “How the Woman Who Found a Leprosy Treatment Was Almost Lost to History.” National Geographic. 2018. https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/alice-ball-leprosy-hansens-disease-hawaii-womens-history-science/
Women who werk
- Adriaense, J. E. C., Martin, J. S., Schiestl, M., Lamm, C. & Bugnyar, T. Negative emotional contagion and cognitive bias in common ravens (Corvus corax). Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 201817066 (2019). https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/05/14/1817066116
- Ars Technica article by Scott K Johnson: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/watching-a-hangry-friend-makes-a-raven-a-pessimist/
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
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University of Hawai’i
Monday Feb 18, 2019
Episode 029 - Jane Cooke Wright | Oncologist & Surgeon
Monday Feb 18, 2019
Monday Feb 18, 2019
Alternate 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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Sources
Main Story - Jane Cooke Wright
- “WOMEN IN SCIENCE: JANE C. WRIGHT REVOLUTIONIZED CANCER RESEARCH (1919-2013)” by Dr. Ellen Elliot. https://www.jax.org/news-and-insights/jax-blog/2016/november/women-in-science-jane-wright
- “A Passion for Solving the Puzzle of Cancer: Jane Cooke Wright, M.D., 1919-2013” by Sandra M. Swain. http://theoncologist.alphamedpress.org/content/18/6/646.full
- Women Pioneers of Medical Research: Biographies of 25 Outstanding Scientists by King-Thom Chung.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_C._Wright
Women who werk
Researchers discover some of the “hidden figures” of population genetics by scouring old papers’ acknowledgement sections for female scientists whose contributions have been overlooked.
- Illuminating Women’s Hidden Contribution to Historical Theoretical Population Genetics. Samantha Kristin Dung, Andrea López, Ezequiel Lopez Barragan, Rochelle-Jan Reyes, Ricky Thu, Edgar Castellanos, Francisca Catalan, Emilia Huerta-Sánchez and Rori V. Rohlfs. GENETICS. February 1, 2019 vol. 211 no. 2 363-366; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.301277
- “The Women Who Contributed to Science but Were Buried in Footnotes” by Ed Yong: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/womens-history-in-science-hidden-footnotes/582472/
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
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U.S. National Library of Medicine
Monday Jan 07, 2019
Episode 026 - Gertrude Belle Elion |Biochemist
Monday Jan 07, 2019
Monday Jan 07, 2019
Alternate 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/prizes/medicine/1988/elion/biographical/
- Koenig, Rick. The Legacy of Great Science: The Work of Nobel Laureate Gertrude Elion Lives On. The Oncologist. October, 2006. http://theoncologist.alphamedpress.org/content/11/9/961
- American Chemical Society. Gertrude Elion (1918–1999). https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/women-scientists/gertrude-elion.html
- Science History Institute. George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/george-hitchings-and-gertrude-elion
- Avery, Mary Ellen. Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999). Biographical Memoir for the National Academy of Sciences. 2000. http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/elion-gertrude.pdf
- Kresge, N, Simini, RD, and RL Hill. Developing the Purine Nucleoside Analogue Acyclovir: the Work of Gertrude B. Elion. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2008. http://www.jbc.org/content/283/19/e11.full.html#ref-list-1
- Altman, Lawrence K. “Gertrude Elion, Drug Developer, Dies at 81.” New York Times, 1999. https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/23/us/gertrude-elion-drug-developer-dies-at-81.html
Women who werk
New movie coming out about Mary Anning! https://variety.com/2018/film/news/kate-winslet-saoirse-ronan-ammonite-fossil-hunter-francis-lee-1203090106/
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“La Vie Boheme” by Rent
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Courtesy of GlaxoSmithKline Inc. Heritage Center.
Monday Dec 24, 2018
24 women of STEMmas!
Monday Dec 24, 2018
Monday Dec 24, 2018
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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Sources
Music
“21 questions" by 50 Cent
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“No Copyright Music: Christmas Instrumentals” by Heroboard: Music for Creators https://youtu.be/dYyPTy6425U
Monday Sep 03, 2018
Episode 017 - Asima Chatterjee | Chemist
Monday Sep 03, 2018
Monday Sep 03, 2018
Alternate 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 Exhibit. https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/rgKiCdKgS8UJIw
- Biography by S.C. Prakashi. https://www.ias.ac.in/public/Resources/Initiatives/Women_in_Science/Contributors/Chatterjee.pdf
- Article containing historical info about usage of Rauwolfia plants for medicinal purposes. By Douglas Lobay. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4566472/
Women who werk
Nature write-up about paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05853-z
Original Article: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/285/1884/20180466
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
Monday Jul 23, 2018
Episode 013 - Dorothy Crawfoot | Protein Crystallographer
Monday Jul 23, 2018
Monday Jul 23, 2018
Alternate 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 the Eleventh Quinquennium (2007–2012)". https://web.archive.org/web/20030819053554/http:/www.pugwash.org/about/principles.htm
- Dorothy Hodgkin and her contributions to biochemistry, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Nov 2013. http://link.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/apps/pub/2IIA/SCIC?u=txshracd2598&sid=SCIC.
- 100 years of X-ray Crystallography. http://cen.xraycrystals.org/penicillin.html
- Thatcher and Hodgkin: How chemistry overcame politics, BBC News: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-28801302
Women who werk
- Study: Erica L. Morley and Daniel Robert show that electric fields elicit spider ballooning behavior. Video and article in Current Biology: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982218306936?via%3Dihub
- Article summarizing study’s findings: “The electric flight of spiders” by Ed Wong. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/the-electric-flight-of-spiders/564437/
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Bad Things” by Jace Everett