Episodes
Monday Nov 18, 2019
Episode 047 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas | Conservationist
Monday Nov 18, 2019
Monday Nov 18, 2019
Alternate 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/eureka-lab/MASTERS-2019-teen-auto-safety-researcher-nabs-25000-broadcom-masters-prize
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Work” by Rihanna
Cover Image
Photo by Kevin Fleming for Corbis via Getty Images
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)
Cover Image
Engraving depicting Maria Prophetissima from Michael Maier's book Symbola Aurea Mensae Duodecim Nationum (1617).
Monday Oct 07, 2019
Episode 044 - Beatrice 'Tilly' Shilling | Aeronautical Engineer
Monday Oct 07, 2019
Monday Oct 07, 2019
Alternate 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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Sources
Main Story - Beatrice “Tilly” Shilling
- “Magnificent Women: Beatrice Shilling.” Women in Engineering Society. https://www.wes.org.uk/sites/default/files/u82/Magnificent%20Women%20-%20Beatrice%20Shilling.pdf
- Wynarczyk, Pooran and Jaffe, Deborah. Innovative Women: Illuminating Achievement and Success. Paper presented at 9th International Triple Helix Conference. 2011. https://www.leydesdorff.net/th9/Innovative%20WomenFINAL15JUNE2011N.pdf
- Price, Alfred. The Spitfire Story: Second edition. London: Arms and Armour Press Ltd., 1986.
- “Beatrice Shilling – Engineer and Battle of Britain heroine.” The University of Manchester. 2015. https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/beatrice-shilling--engineer-and-battle-of-britain-heroine/
- Ferriera, Becky. “How Thrill-Seeking Gearhead Beatrice Shilling Helped Win World War II.” Motherboard. 2017. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z4k455/beatrice-shilling-women-stem-international-womens-day
- “Beatrice Shilling: Pioneering engineer's genius 'helped win World War Two’.” BBC.com. 2017. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-40267364
- Morris, Carol. “Beatrice Shilling (1909-1990).” OpenLearn. 2018. https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/engineering-technology/beatrice-shilling-1909-1990
- Blake-Coleman, Barry. “The Fabulous 'Tilly' Shilling!” http://www.inventricity.com/tilly-shilling
- “The Life and Work of Beatrice ‘Tilly’ Shilling OBE PhD MSc CEng” an illustrated talk by Frankie Webb. 2019. https://thefarnboroughsociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Beatrice-Shilling-Talk.pdf
Women who Werk
This week we highlight young women climate activists!
Autumn Peltier:
Xiye Bastida:
- https://www.eomega.org/workshops/teachers/xiye-bastida
- https://www.pbs.org/wnet/peril-and-promise/2019/09/meet-xiye-bastida-americas-greta-thunberg/
Mari Copeny:
- https://shortyawards.com/11th/littlemissflint
- https://www.oprahmag.com/life/a25383285/mari-copeny-barack-obama-flint-water-crisis/
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
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Norton Vintage
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
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Wikipedia Commons
Monday Aug 26, 2019
Episode 041 - Margaret Dayhoff | Bioinformatician
Monday Aug 26, 2019
Monday Aug 26, 2019
Alternate 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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Sources
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 Margaret Dayhoff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Oakley_Dayhoff
- Professor Margaret Dayhoff: https://www.whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/people/summary/Dayhoff
Women who Werk
- Gartenberg, Chaim. “Women swept through the Hugo awards -- again.” The Verge 2019. https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/19/20812571/hugo-award-2019-winners-worldcon-mary-robinette-kowal-best-novel-into-the-spider-verse
- More info: http://www.thehugoawards.org/
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
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By Ruth Dayhoff
Monday Aug 12, 2019
Episode 040 - Mildred Dresselhaus | Physicist & Electrical Engineer
Monday Aug 12, 2019
Monday Aug 12, 2019
Alternate 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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Sources
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/national/health-science/mildred-dresselhaus-physicist-dubbed-queen-of-carbon-dies-at-86/2017/02/22/3355d3a2-f8a7-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html?noredirect=on
- Mildred Dresselhaus Autobiography for the Kavli Prize. http://kavliprize.org/sites/default/files/%25nid%25/autobiagraphies_attachments/Mildred_Dresselhaus_Biography_0.pdf
- Anderson, Mark. “Mildred Dresselhaus: The Queen of Carbon.” IEEE Spectrum. 2015. https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/mildred-dresselhaus-the-queen-of-carbon
- MILDRED DRESSELHAUS: An Interview Conducted by Kelsey Irvin, IEEE History Center, 11 July 2013. Interview # 650 for the IEEE History Center, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. https://ethw.org/Oral-History:Mildred_Dresselhaus
- Mildred Dresselhaus. The Franklin Institute. https://www.fi.edu/laureates/mildred-s-dresselhaus
- Angier, Natalie. “Carbon Catalyst for Half a Century.” The New York Times. 2012. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/science/carbon-catalyst-for-half-a-century.html
- MIT News Office. “Institute Professor Emerita Mildred Dresselhaus, a pioneer in the electronic properties of materials, dies at 86.” 2017. http://news.mit.edu/2017/institute-professor-emerita-mildred-dresselhaus-dies-86-0221
Women who Werk
- DeSantis et al 2019 Current biology paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdfExtended/S0960-9822(19)30786-9
- Science daily article: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190805111913.htm
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
Cover Image
Emilio Segre Visual Archives/american Institute Of Physics
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
Tuesday Apr 30, 2019
Episode 034 -Hedy Lamarr | Inventor
Tuesday Apr 30, 2019
Tuesday Apr 30, 2019
Alternate 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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Sources
Main Story - Hedy Lamarr
- Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. Directed by Alexandra Dean (2017).
- George, Alice. “Thank This World War II-Era Film Star for Your Wi-Fi.” Smithsonianmag.com. Aug. 4, 2019. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/thank-world-war-ii-era-film-star-your-wi-fi-180971584/
- Schearer, Steven M. Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr. Sept. 28, 2010. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=d4hLFzsNgKEC&oi=fnd&pg=PT4&dq=hedy+lamarr&ots=uZOGX1rctz&sig=kokzynKHFjilAy2HGANNJ9PphcQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
- Ouellette, Jennifer. Hop, Skip and a Jump: Remembering Hedy Lamarr. Jan. 9, 2012. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/hop-skip-and-a-jump-remembering-hedy-lamar/
Women who werk
Caroline Criado Perez’s book entitled, “Invisible women: data bias in a world designed for men”.
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
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Zeitgeist Films
Monday Apr 15, 2019
Episode 033 - Marie Tharp | Cartographer & Oceanographer
Monday Apr 15, 2019
Monday Apr 15, 2019
Alternate 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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Sources
Main Story - Marie Tharp
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute article, “Marie Tharp”: https://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7500&tid=282&cid=23306
- “Marie Tharp - Plate Techtonics Pioneer” by Hali Felt: https://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/27/6/pdf/i1052-5173-27-6-32.pdf
- “Marie Tharp, The Woman Who Discovered The Backbone Of Earth” by David Bressan, Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2018/07/30/hundreds-missing-and-many-feared-dead-after-laos-dam-collapse/#2d5f9e17f91b
- “How One Brilliant Woman Mapped the Secrets of the Ocean Floor | Short Film Showcase” by National Geographic https://youtu.be/vE2FK0B7gPo
- Four facts about Marie Tharp, the woman whose art mapped the bottom of the sea by Cassie Freund: https://massivesci.com/articles/marie-tharp-bottom-ocean-maps/
Women who werk
Researchers Jillian E. Lauer, Eukyung Yhang, and Stella F. Lourenco describe the development of gender differences in spatial reasoning.
Journal article: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-17809-001?doi=1
Summary: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190411154728.htm
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“I’m on a boat” by Lonely Island
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https://exploration.marinersmuseum.org/subject/marie-tharp/
Monday Apr 01, 2019
Episode 032 - Annie Easley | Mathematician & Rocket Scientist
Monday Apr 01, 2019
Monday Apr 01, 2019
Alternate 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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Sources
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.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/NASA_HQ/Herstory/EasleyAJ/easleyaj.htm
- “Annie Easley, Computer Scientist” by Anne K. Mills. 2014. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/annie-easley-computer-scientist
- “The Trailblazing Human Computer Who Represented a New Age of Working Women” By Belle Hutton. 2018. http://www.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/gallery/9695/annie-easley/4
Women who werk - Dr. Karen Uhlenbeck
- “Retired UT professor becomes first woman to win prestigious prize in mathematics” by Brenna Hinshaw. http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2019/03/25/retired-ut-professor-becomes-first-woman-to-win-prestigious-prize-in-mathematics
- “Karen Uhlenbeck, Uniter of Geometry and Analysis, Wins Abel Prize” by Erica Klarreich. https://www.quantamagazine.org/karen-uhlenbeck-uniter-of-geometry-and-analysis-wins-abel-prize-20190319/
- “Karen Uhlenbeck Is First Woman to Win Abel Prize for Mathematics” by https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/science/karen-uhlenbeck-abel-prize.html
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
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NASA
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 Mar 04, 2019
Episode 030 - Zelia Nuttall | Anthropologist & Archeologist
Monday Mar 04, 2019
Monday Mar 04, 2019
Alternate 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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Sources
Main Story - Zelia Nuttall
- The Archaeologist Who Helped Mexico Find Glory in Its Indigenous Past. McNeil, Leila. Smithsonian.com. Nov 5, 2018. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/archaeologist-who-helped-mexico-find-glory-its-past-180970700/
- Ruiz, Carmen. Insiders and outsiders in Mexican archaeology (1890-1930). Diss. 2003. https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/905
- Zelia Nuttall: The Queen of Mexican Archeology https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/zelia-nuttall
- Tozzer, Alfred M. Zelia Nuttall. American Anthropologist 35.3 (1933): 475-482. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1525/aa.1933.35.3.02a00070
- Adams, Amanda. Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure.
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Shoutout #1: Science article about Dr. McLaughlin. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/neuroscientist-fighting-sexual-harassment-science-her-own-job-peril
Shoutout #2: Project Phaedra. https://library.cfa.harvard.edu/project-phaedra
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
Cover Image: The Bancroft Library, University of California
Images of Terracotta Heads: https://archive.org/details/jstor-495843/page/n23
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
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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
Cover Image
U.S. National Library of Medicine
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/
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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
Monday Jan 21, 2019
Episode 027 - Rosalind Franklin | X-ray Crystallographer
Monday Jan 21, 2019
Monday Jan 21, 2019
Alternate 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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Sources
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 Frederick Sydney (1981). "Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, 9 November 1897 – 7 June 1978". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 27: 379–424. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1981.0016. JSTOR 769878.
- “Rosalind Franklin” by PBS: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bofran.html
- Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
- “Rosalind Franklin” by Wikipedia
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Dr. Melissa Graham and a team of researchers observe “messy” companion stars in binary star systems that lead to supernova.
- https://www.washington.edu/news/2019/01/10/messy-supernova/
- https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-knows/what-is-a-supernova.html
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Supernova Girl” by Zenon
Cover Image
Ann Ronan Picture Library—World History Archive/age fotostock
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 Dec 10, 2018
Episode 024 - Eunice Newton Foote | Climate Scientist
Monday Dec 10, 2018
Monday Dec 10, 2018
Alternate 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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Sources:
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”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Newton_Foote#cite_note-genealogy-1
- AAPG Search and Discovery, “Eunice Foote’s Pioneering Research on CO2 and Climate Warming: Update*”: http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/pdfz/documents/2018/70317sorenson/ndx_sorenson.pdf.html
- Smithsonian Magazine article by Leila McNeil entitled “This Lady Scientist Defined the Greenhouse Effect But Didn’t Get the Credit, Because Sexism”: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/lady-scientist-helped-revolutionize-climate-science-didnt-get-credit-180961291/
- Think Progress article by Kyla Mandel entitled “This woman fundamentally changed climate science — and you’ve probably never heard of her”: https://thinkprogress.org/female-climate-scientist-eunice-foote-finally-honored-for-her-contributions-162-years-later-21b3cf08c70b/
- “AMERICAN WOMEN IN SCIENCE BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR” by Elizabeth Wagner Reed: http://www.catherinecreed.com/assets/writings/women_in_science.pdf
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Jessica Nirodi and co. describe how geckos (almost) walk on water.
Marilyn Cornelis and co. find that coffee drinkers are more likely to perceive bitterness of caffeine.
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“PlasmaMash” by Daryl Bolling
Monday Sep 17, 2018
Episode 018 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell | Nuclear Physicist
Monday Sep 17, 2018
Monday Sep 17, 2018
Alternate 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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Sources
Main Story - Lise Meitner
- Fission Girl: Lise Meitner’s Escape from Nazi Germany by Melanie Fine
- Book Review of Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/reviews/lisemeitner.htm
- Article from Berkeley Nuclear Research Center: https://web.archive.org/web/20161112205121/http://bnrc.berkeley.edu/Famous-Women-in-Physical-Sciences-and-Engineering/lise-meitner.html
Further reading: Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics by Ruth Lewis Sime.
Women who werk
Jocelyn Bell Burnell receives $3 million Breakthrough Prize for her 1967 discovery of pulsars and lifetime of scientific leadership.
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
Cover art
Atomic Heritage Foundation
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/
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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 Aug 06, 2018
Episode 015 - Anna Freud | Psychoanalyst
Monday Aug 06, 2018
Monday Aug 06, 2018
Alternate 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. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/28/why-freud-survives
- NYTimes Obituary for Anna Freud. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1203.html
- And check out her very thorough Wikipedia page! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Freud
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- Original PNAS article: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/07/17/1808754115
- Science news article: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/could-tiny-spider-be-helping-arctic-stay-cool
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Frontier Psychiatrist” by The Avalanches
Monday Jul 30, 2018
Episode 014 - Eugenie Clark | Ichthyologist
Monday Jul 30, 2018
Monday Jul 30, 2018
Alternate 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://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/us/eugenie-clark-scholar-of-the-life-aquatic-dies-at-92.html
- Smithsonian biography by Ashley Gallagher: https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/sharks-rays/eugenie-clark-shark-lady
- Mote Marine Lab Obituary by Hayley Rutger: https://mote.org/news/article/remembering-the-shark-lady-the-life-and-legacy-of-dr.-eugenie-clark
- Clark, Eugenie; Gorge, Anita (June 1979). "Toxic soles, Pardachirus marmoratus from the Red Sea and P. pavoninus from Japan, with notes on other species". Environmental Biology of Fishes. 4 (2): 103–123.
- Clark, Eugenie (Jul 1959). "Instrumental Conditioning of Lemon Sharks"(PDF). Science. 130 (3369): 217–218. doi:10.1126/science.130.3369.217-a. Retrieved 15 Feb 2016.
Women who werk:
Jezebel article about Melissa Cristina Márquez: https://jezebel.com/marine-biologist-melissa-cristina-marquez-was-bitten-an-1827816706
Music:
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Pony” by Ginuwine
Cover Image:
Photo by National Geographic photographer, David Doubilet
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
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- 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
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
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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
Monday Jul 09, 2018
Episode 011 - Mary Golda Ross | Space Engineer
Monday Jul 09, 2018
Monday Jul 09, 2018
Alternate 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. Mar 2013:28. Available from: http://ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/1349940805?accountid=7118
- NPR Segment on Morning Edition: https://www.npr.org/2015/05/19/407664385/cherokee-chief-john-ross-is-the-unsung-hero-of-jacksonland
- Wikipedia article on Lockheed Corporation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Corporation
- Wikipedia article on Lil Abner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%27l_Abner
- Massive Science article by Jenny Howard: https://massivesci.com/articles/mary-golda-ross-cherokee/
- Smithsonian Magazine article by Andrew Chaikin: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-sr-71-blackbird-epitome-cold-war-spycraft-180953402/
Further Reading
- Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab by Steve Inskeep
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Shoutout #1
- Dr. Jessica Irving and her team develop new models for the Earth’s outer core: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180627160232.htm
Shoutout #2
- PhD Candidate Stav Atir and advisor Dr. Melissa Ferguson found that people refer to male professionals by their surname more often than female professionals, and that this gender bias could negatively impact women in STEM careers. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2172515-calling-men-by-their-surname-gives-them-an-unfair-career-boost/
- Scientific Article: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/06/19/1805284115.short
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
Monday Jul 02, 2018
Episode 010 - Sally Ride | Physicist/Astronaut
Monday Jul 02, 2018
Monday Jul 02, 2018
Alternate 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 NY Times by Denise Grady https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/science/space/sally-ride-trailblazing-astronaut-dies-at-61.html?pagewanted=all
- Article by Dr. Rhea Seddon: http://astronautrheaseddon.com/the-first-six-american-women-astronauts/
- Review and summary of Lynn Sherr’s book by Andrew Liptak: https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-secret-life-of-sally-ride-the-first-american-woman-1586255004
- (Extra reading) Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Sally-Ride/Lynn-Sherr/9781476725772
- Sally Ride Science Website: https://sallyridescience.ucsd.edu/about/
- Sally Ride’s UCSD research page: http://casswww.ucsd.edu/archive/personal/sride.html
Women who werk
Shoutout #1
- Gaynor, K. M., Hojnowski, C. E., Carter, N. H. & Brashares, J. S. The influence of human disturbance on wildlife nocturnality. Science 360, 1232–1235 (2018).
Shoutout #2
- Here’s what narwhals sound like underwater: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/what-narwhals-sound-underwater?tgt=nr
- Blackwell SB, Tervo OM, Conrad AS, Sinding MHS, Hansen RG, et al. (2018) Spatial and temporal patterns of sound production in East Greenland narwhals. PLOS ONE 13(6): e0198295. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198295
Music
“Mustang Sally” by Wilson Pickett
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
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.
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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/
Monday Jun 18, 2018
Episode 008 - Sarah Elizabeth Stewart | Viral Oncologist
Monday Jun 18, 2018
Monday Jun 18, 2018
Alternate 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/articles/PMC4012821/
- Obituary by Bernice Eddy: https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article-abstract/59/4/1039/920231?redirectedFrom=fulltext
- Article: “Ludwik Gross, Sarah Stewart, and the 1950s discoveries of Gross murine leukemia virus and polyoma virus” by Gregory J. Morgan https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/science/article/pii/S1369848614000946
- The tale of the great cuckoo egg by George Klein. https://www.nature.com/articles/22906
Women who werk
Shoutout #1
- “Dirty air can harm your brain and stress the body” by Lindsey Konkel: https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/dirty-air-can-harm-your-brain-and-stress-body
- L. Calderón-Garcidueñas et al. Hallmarks of Alzheimer disease are evolving relentlessly in Metropolitan Mexico City infants, children and young adults. APOE4 carriers have higher suicide risk and higher odds of reaching NFT stage V at ≤ 40 years of age. Environmental Research.Vol. 164, July 2018, p. 475. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2018.03.023.
Shoutout #2
- Pregnant bonobos get a little delivery help from their friends: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pregnant-bonobos-get-little-delivery-help-their-friends?tgt=nr
- E. Demuru, P.F. Ferrari and E. Palagi. Is birth attendance a uniquely human feature? New evidence suggests that bonobo females protect and support the parturient. Evolution and Human Behavior. Published online May 9, 2018. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.05.003.
Thursday Jun 14, 2018
Episode 000 - STEM Fatale Promo
Thursday Jun 14, 2018
Thursday Jun 14, 2018
Learn what this pod is all about!
Monday Jun 11, 2018
Episode 007 - Grace Hopper | Computer Scientist
Monday Jun 11, 2018
Monday Jun 11, 2018
Alternate 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://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/grace-murray-hopper/
Women who werk
- Drug prevents brain damage in mice exposed to high levels of radiation. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/05/410421/deep-space-radiation-treatment-reboots-brains-immune-system
- Seagrass meadow conservation is necessary to maintain fishery health. http://www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office/latest-research/worldsbiggestfisheriessupportedbyseagrassmeadows.php