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.
Spreadsheet of Labs supporting Ukrainian Scientists: Labs supporting Ukrainian Scientists
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Work” by Rihanna
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Monday Jan 31, 2022
Episode 082 - Annie Dodge Wauneka Part 2 | Public Health Activist
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Emlyn tells Emma about public health advocate Annie Dodge Wauneka.
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Sources
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
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Work” by Rihanna
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http://www.schools.utah.gov/curr/indianed/teacher/lessons/Leaders/AnnieDodge.htm
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
Episode 081 - The 24 Women of STEM-mas - Trivia #4
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
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??
Cheat sheet --> https://twitter.com/STEMFatalePod/status/1474052626589585409?s=20
Sources
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“No Copyright Music: Christmas Instrumentals” by Heroboard: Music for Creators https://youtu.be/dYyPTy6425U
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Episode 080 - Annie Dodge Wauneka Part 1 | Public Health Activist
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Episode Summary
Emlyn tells Emma about public health advocate Annie Dodge Wauneka.
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Sources
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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http://www.schools.utah.gov/curr/indianed/teacher/lessons/Leaders/AnnieDodge.htm
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Episode 073 - Jessie Isabelle Price | Bacteriologist
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Alternate Title: The Duchess of Duck Disease
Emlyn tells Emma about the bacteriologist and duck disease expert, Dr. Jessie Isabelle Price!
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Sources
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. Jessie Isabelle Price - Veterinary Microbiologist” by Karel Green, POC2 . https://poc2.co.uk/2019/03/14/dr-jessie-isabelle-price-veterinary-microbiologist/
Women who Work
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Work” by Rihanna
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"Doctor to Long Island Ducks". Ebony. September 1964.
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Episode 068 - Susan La Flesche Picotte | Physician
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Alternate 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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Sources
Main Story - Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte
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- “The Incredible Legacy of Susan La Flesche, The First Native America to Earn a Medical Degree” by Carson Vaughan, Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/incredible-legacy-susan-la-flesche-first-native-american-earn-medical-degree-180962332/
- “The First Native American to Receive a Medical Degree” by Allison C. Meier, JStor Daily. https://daily.jstor.org/the-first-native-american-to-receive-a-medical-degree/
- “Native American Disease and Epidemics,” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_epidemics
- Susan la flesche picotte: A doctor who spanned two cultures. The Lancet. 2019;393(10173):734.
- “Susan La Flesche Picotte,” National Park Service. https://www.nps.gov/people/susan-la-flesche-picotte.htm
- “Ulysses S. Grant: Mass Genocide Through ‘Permanent Peace’ Policy” by Alysa Landry, Indian Country Today. https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/ulysses-s-grant-mass-genocide-through-permanent-peace-policy-Ing8OYiNuU6hw6ZgulRA9Q
- Starita, Joe. A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Doctor. New York, St. Martin’s Press, 2016.
Women who Work
Flaherty, Colleen. Study finds gender bias in TA evals, too. Inside Higher Ed. 2020.
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Work” by Rihanna
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Courtesy of the Nebraska State Historical Society Photograph Collections. This image was found at The National Library of Medicine. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_253.html
Monday Apr 27, 2020
Monday Apr 27, 2020
Alternate 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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Sources
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 Library. https://bentley.umich.edu/features/the-trailblazer/
- Shift7 for Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls. “Pearl Kendrick, Grace Eldering, and Loney Clinton Gordon developed the whooping cough and single dose DTP vaccines” https://amysmartgirls.com/20for2020-pearl-kendrick-grace-eldering-and-loney-clinton-gordon-developed-the-pertussis-and-c035f2858d6
- CDC pages on Pertussis/Whooping Cough. https://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/index.html
- Finding aid for the Michigan women and the whooping cough vaccine collection. Collection 328. The Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering papers, Katherine Chase scrapbook and other sources Finding aid prepared by Jill Bannink. This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit May 24, 2013. Describing Archives: A Content Standard. https://www.grpl.org/uploads/grhsc/328.pdf
- Shapiro-Shapin, Carolyn G. “Pearl Kendrick, Grace Eldering, and the Pertussis Vaccine.” Emerging Infectious Diseases. www.cdc.gov/eid. Vol. 16, No. 8. August 2010. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9198/ba161ce6ecbb2c6816e10cc7e4ef28625048.pdf?_ga=2.142500848.35409263.1587737011-1375607549.1587737011
- Santa Fe Institute News. “Study: Is the whooping cough resurgence due to vaccinated people not knowing they’re infectious?” 2015. https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/althouse-scarpino-whooping-cough-asymptomatic
- Marks, Harry M. “The Kendrick-Eldering-(Frost) pertussis vaccine field trial.” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. vol. 100,5 (2007): 242-7. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1861415/
Women who Work
- Guardian Article about the success of female leaders in containing covid-19: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/25/why-do-female-leaders-seem-to-be-more-successful-at-managing-the-coronavirus-crisis
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Work” by Rihanna
Cover Image
Lt: Pearl Kendrick (Image courtesy of U-M Library Digital Collections. Bentley Image Bank, Bentley Historical Library). Center: Grace Eldering (Image via Grand Rapids History and Special Collections (GRHSC), Archives, Grand Rapids Public Library, Grand Rapids, Michigan) Rt: Loney Clinton Gordon (image via Michigan Women Forward).
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Episode 054 - Alice Hamilton | Industrial Toxicologist & Doctor
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Alternate 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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Sources
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 Markel, PBS. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/celebrating-life-alice-hamilton-founding-mother-occupational-medicine
- “Lead, TNT, and Rayon: Dr. Alice Hamilton’s Battle Against Industrial Poisons” by Dale Debakcsy, Women You Should Know. https://womenyoushouldknow.net/alice-hamiltons-battle-against-industrial-poisons/
- Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Hamilton
Women who Work
Shoutout to Katelyn Allers and her team for devising a new method for measuring wind speeds on brown dwarfs!
- NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "In a first, NASA measures wind speed on a brown dwarf." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 9 April 2020. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200409142409.htm>
- Finley, Dave. “Astronomers Measure Wind Speed on a Brown Dwarf.” National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 9 April 2020. https://public.nrao.edu/news/brown-dwarf-wind-speed/
- CalTech’s Cool Cosmos page on Brown Dwarfs (for background info): http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/cosmic_reference/brown_dwarfs.html
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Work” by Rihanna
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Photo courtesy of NIH https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Alice_Hamilton#/media/File:Alice_Hamilton.jpg
Monday Mar 16, 2020
Episode 052 - Clara Barton | Nurse
Monday Mar 16, 2020
Monday Mar 16, 2020
Alternate 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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Sources:
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 Cross faced down sexism her whole life” by Gillian Brockell, Washington Post Article. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/05/06/union-doctors-demanded-male-nurses-during-civil-war-clara-barton-defied-them/
Women who Work
- Wolters Kluwer Health. "COVID-19 appears less severe in children, Says Review in Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal." March, 2020. http://home.lww.com/news.entry.html/2020/03/13/covid-19_appearsles-YgCo.html
- University of California - Berkeley. "Coronavirus outbreak raises question: Why are bat viruses so deadly? Bats' fierce immune systems drive viruses to higher virulence, making them deadlier in humans. February, 2020. https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/02/10/coronavirus-outbreak-raises-question-why-are-bat-viruses-so-deadly/
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Work” by Rihanna
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Mathew Brady
Monday Jul 29, 2019
Episode 039 - Frances Oldham Kelsey | Pharmacologist
Monday Jul 29, 2019
Monday Jul 29, 2019
Alternate 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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Sources
Main Story - Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey
- Transcripts of Dr. Kelsey: https://www.fda.gov/media/89162/download
- "Frances Oldham Kelsey: Medical reviewer famous for averting a public health tragedy" : https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/virtual-exhibits-fda-history/frances-oldham-kelsey-medical-reviewer-famous-averting-public-health-tragedy
- "The Woman Who Stood Between America and a Generation of ‘Thalidomide Babies’" by Leila McNeill: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/woman-who-stood-between-america-and-epidemic-birth-defects-180963165/
- Wikipedia article about Frances Oldham Kelsey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Oldham_Kelsey
- "Frances Oldham Kelsey, Who Saved U.S. Babies From Thalidomide, Dies at 101" by Robert D. McFadden: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/08/science/frances-oldham-kelsey-fda-doctor-who-exposed-danger-of-thalidomide-dies-at-101.html?_r=0
- Biography of Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey: https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_182.html
Women who Werk
Johns Hopkins Medicine. "Vast majority of dietary supplements don't improve heart health or put off death, study finds." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 16 July 2019. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190716095529.htm
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
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Wikipedia
The White House
Sunday Jul 14, 2019
Short Stories 1 - Sameera Moussa | Nuclear Physicist
Sunday Jul 14, 2019
Sunday Jul 14, 2019
Alternate 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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Sources
Story 1 - Dr. Yvonne Barr
- The Cancer Virus: The story of Epstein-Barr Virus. D.H. Crawford, A. Richinson, and I. Johnnessen. 2014. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
- Video of Dr. Yvonne Barr for 50th anniversary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MXFUHBRQjo
- UK Cancer Research Institute, https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2014/03/26/50-years-of-epstein-barr-virus/
- “Viral Causes of Lymphoma: The History of Epstein-Barr Virus and Human T-Lymphotropic Virus” by Daniel Esau, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5621661/pdf/10.1177_1178122X17731772.pdf
- Cancer virus discovery helped by delayed flight, https://www.bbc.com/news/health-26857610
Story 2 - Dr. Sameera Moussa
- Sameera Moussa by Ignite Global Fund for Women http://ignite.globalfundforwomen.org/be-the-spark/sameera-moussa
- Decou, Christopher. 2018. “This Week in Science: Sameera Moussa, the Egyptian Mother of Nuclear Energy.” https://medium.com/@ccdecou/week-science-history-sameera-moussa-egyptian-89cdc6312838
Further reading on gender equality issues in STEM:
- Old boy's club of 1989: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277539589800111
- Negative and marginalizing interactions limiting women's access to important resources: http://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/00551c876cc2f027,31a33a3e53bad464,08629c0a217631d5.html
- Sexism and microaggressions: https://journals.aps.org/prper/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.12.020119
- Research labs described as a “chilly place” for women: http://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/00551c876cc2f027,3d9029c134ca6690,734a6ef163b4eb9c.html
- Lack of female gatekeepers for research funding: https://www.ingenere.it/en/articles/gate-keeping-and-gender-challenge-science
- More ways in which STEM graduate environments disfavour women: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0308018815Z.000000000112
- An article in science magazine about the issue: https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2018/10/when-you-re-only-woman-challenges-female-phd-students-male-dominated-cohorts
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
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 Mar 18, 2019
Episode 031 - Florence Nightingale | Nurse
Monday Mar 18, 2019
Monday Mar 18, 2019
Alternate 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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Sources
Main Story - Florence Nightingale
- “Florence Nightingale” by History Channel: https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/florence-nightingale-1
- “Florence Nightingale: the Lady with the Lamp By” Mark Bostridge. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/nightingale_01.shtml#five
- Nightingale in Scutari: Her Legacy Reexamined by Christopher J. Gill and Gillian C. Gillhttps://academic.oup.com/cid/article/40/12/1799/314039
- "A history that lives on: Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole first met in the Crimea. Elizabeth Anionwu describes how they overcame personal battles to get there." by Anionwu, Elizabeth. http://link.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/apps/doc/A270979329/HRCA?u=txshracd2598&sid=HRCA&xid=4378b9e3.
- Florence Nightingale, the Woman and her Legend, by Mark Bostridge
- Eight little-known facts about Florence Nightingale by the History Press https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/eight-little-known-facts-about-florence-nightingale/
- A Brief History of Sexy Nurses by Dan Gentile. https://www.thrillist.com/sex-dating/nation/history-of-the-sexy-nurse
Women who werk
Greta Thunberg, schoolgirl climate change warrior: ‘Some people can let things go. I can’t’ by Jonathan Watts (2019). https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/11/greta-thunberg-schoolgirl-climate-change-warrior-some-people-can-let-things-go-i-cant
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“The Fish Cheer / I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To Die Rag” by Country Joe and The Fish
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Wellcome Images
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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SOURCES
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??
PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link
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 Jun 25, 2018
Episode 009 - Louise Pearce | Pathologist
Monday Jun 25, 2018
Monday Jun 25, 2018
Alternate 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 has coordinated a ton of cool projects in the last two years that aim to increase visibility and inclusivity of minorities in STEM. Check out their organization and projects, or find a local chapter here: https://500womenscientists.org/
You can also support this month’s new offshoot campaign, 500 Queer Scientists by sharing it and posting about it on your own social media, and by following their Twitter (@500QueerSci) and Instagram (@500QueerScientists). Or you can submit your own story at: https://www.500queerscientists.com/