Episodes
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
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Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“No Copyright Music: Christmas Instrumentals” by Heroboard: Music for Creators https://youtu.be/dYyPTy6425U
Tuesday May 12, 2020
Episode 056 - Tilly Edinger | Paleoneurologist
Tuesday May 12, 2020
Tuesday May 12, 2020
Alternate 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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Sources
Main Story
- Wilson, Laura. “Tilly Edinger.” Trowelblazers. https://trowelblazers.com/tilly-edinger/
- Buchholtz, Emily A. and Ernst-August Seyfarth. “The Study of “Fossil Brains”: Tilly Edinger (1897–1967) and the Beginnings of Paleoneurology”, BioScience, Volume 51, Issue 8, 2001. https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/51/8/674/220658
- Buchholtz, Emily A. and Ernst-August Seyfarth. “The gospel of the fossil brain: Tilly Edinger and the science of paleoneurology”, Brain Research Bulletin, Volume 48, No 4, 1999. http://academics.wellesley.edu/Biology/Faculty/Emily/BRB48(4).pdf
- Wikipedia Article, “Tilly Edinger.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilly_Edinger
- McNeill, Leila.“The woman who shaped the study of fossil brains,” Smithsonian Magazine, March 1, 2018. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/woman-who-shaped-study-fossil-brains-180968254/
Women who Work
- Brumfield, Ben. “People Think Robots Are Pretty Incompetent and Not Funny, New Study Says.” Georgia Institute of Technology. May, 2020.
https://chi.gatech.edu/people-think-robots-are-pretty-incompetent-and-not-funny/
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Work” by Rihanna
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Monday Sep 23, 2019
Episode 043 - Katia Krafft | Volcanologist
Monday Sep 23, 2019
Monday Sep 23, 2019
Alternate 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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Sources
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 Soul: The final moments of Maurice and Katia KRafft” Interdisciplinary studies in literature and environment 4.2 (1997): 71-77.
- P.B.S. Nature: "The Volcano Watchers" 60 minute VHS tape [PBS 103] WNET THirteen Copyright 1987, ISBN 1-56111-504-5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UZxCGxBu8A
- “Into the Inferno” by Werner Herzog (On Netflix)
- “Katia Krafft” on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katia_Krafft
Women who Werk
Dominus, Susan. “Women Scientists Were Written Out of History. It’s Margaret Rossiter’s Lifelong Mission to Fix That.” Smithsonian Magazine. September 2019.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/unheralded-women-scientists-finally-getting-their-due-180973082/
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
Cover Image
Wikipedia Commons
Monday Feb 04, 2019
Episode 028 - Florence Bascom | Geologist
Monday Feb 04, 2019
Monday Feb 04, 2019
Alternate 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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Sources
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. “BECOMING A GEOLOGIST: FLORENCE BASCOM AND JOHNS HOPKINS, 1888–1895.” Earth Sciences History, vol. 19, no. 1, 2000, pp. 2–25
- Ogilvie, Ida H. “Florence Bascom: 1862-1945.” Science, vol. 102, no. 2648, 1945, pp. 320–321.
- Schafer, Elizabeth D. “Bascom, Florence (1862–1945).” Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Ed. Anne Commire. Vol. 2. Detroit, MI: Yorkin Publications, 2002. pp. 205-211.
- Schneiderman, Jill S. “A Life of Firsts: Florence Bascom.” GSA Today, July 1997, pp. 8-9
- Shillito, Lisa-Marie. “Florence Bascom.” https://trowelblazers.com/florence-bascom/
Women who werk
Gene Drive in Mammals
- Nature article by Grunwald et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-0875-2
- Nature commentary by Bruce Conklin: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00185-y
- Science News article by Tina Hesman Saey: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/crispr-gene-drive-mice-pest-control-one-step-closer-reality
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
Cover Image’
Lyell collections