Episodes
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 Jul 16, 2018
Episode 012 - Katsuko Saruhashi | Geochemist
Monday Jul 16, 2018
Monday Jul 16, 2018
Alternate 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 Accident (1954) by Yasuko Hatano for the Nagoya Women’s Studies Research Group Japan: https://nagoyawsrg.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/essays2010.pdf
- Saruhashi, K., 1953. On the Total Carbonaceous Matter and Hydrogen Ion Concentration in Sea Water-A study on the Metabolism in Natural Water (I)-. Papers in Meteorology and Geophysics. 3(3). https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/mripapers1950/3/3/3_202/_article
- Morell, V. 1993. Called `Trimates,' Three Bold Women Shaped Their Field. Science, 260(5106). https://www.jstor.org/stable/2881089?pq-origsite=summon&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
- Otsubo, S. (2007). Women Scientists and Gender Ideology. In A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan, J. Robertson (Ed.). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470996966.ch28#
Extra reading:
- Paper by Katsuko Saruhashi including the famous Saruhashi table (1955): https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/mripapers1950/6/1/6_38/_pdf/-char/en
- Autobiography (in Japanese): https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/13188473?q&versionId=15646025
- An in-depth biography by Fumiko Yonezawa (in Japanese): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Saruhashi-katsuko-ikikata-Fumiko-Yonezawa/dp/4000074970
Women who werk
Congratulations to Intel ISEF 2018 Winners! https://www.sciencenews.org/sponsored/congratulations-intel-isef-2018-winners?tgt=nr
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
Cover Image
Google Doodle