Episodes
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
Cover Image
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
Thursday Jun 14, 2018
Episode 000 - STEM Fatale Promo
Thursday Jun 14, 2018
Thursday Jun 14, 2018
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Sunday May 13, 2018
Episode 001 - Mary Anning | Paleontologist
Sunday May 13, 2018
Sunday May 13, 2018
Alternate Title: Pleasing Plesiosaurs
Emlyn tells Emma about "the greatest fossilist the world ever knew," Mary Anning, and Emma tells Emlyn about the science of farting embarassment, the fate of frogs, and sea turtle kerplunking!
Sources:
Main Story - Mary Anning
- Emling, Shelley (2011) The Fossil Hunter : Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan.
- http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/anning.html
- Wikipedia
Women who werk
- How to deal with embarrassing situations: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180327102814.htm
- Frogs rebounding from chytrid fungus: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/science/frog-species-panama-fungus-rebound.html
- Turtles use limbs in foraging: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180328083421.htm
Trivia
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