STEM Fatale Podcast

STEM Fatale Podcast

By Emlyn Gremlyn and Emma DilemmaScienceHistory
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STEM Fatale Podcast episodes

  • Episode 002 - Mamie Phipps Clark | Psychologist

    Alternate Title: Doleful Dolls

    Emma tells Emlyn about the psychologist Mamie Phipps Clark who conducted the doll test for racial self-hate and Emlyn tells Emma about sea ice algae and how to keep your junk safe!

    Sources: 

    Main Story - Mamie Phipps Clark

    1. An interview of Mamie Clark by Ed Edwin from 1976
  • Encyclopedia.com; Clark, Mamie Phipps https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/clark-mamie-phipps
  • Psychology’s Feminist Voices; Profile: Mamie Phipps Clark. https://www.feministvoices.com/mamie-phipps-clark/
  • “The Doll Test for Racial Self-Hate; Did it Ever Make Sense.” https://www.theroot.com/the-doll-test-for-racial-self-hate-did-it-ever-make-se-1790875716
  • “How a Psychologist’s Work on Race Identity Helped Overturn School Segregation in 1950s America” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/psychologist-work-racial-identity-helped-overturn-school-segregation-180966934/#KxyS5GZY76Y6U6We.99

    • Women who werk

    1. Polar sea ice leads to more productive ocean
    http://www.sciencemag.org.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/news/2018/04/polar-sea-ice-leads-more-productive-oceans
  • This material uses energy from ambient light to kill hospital superbugs. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/material-uses-energy-ambient-light-kill-hospital-superbugs  

    • Trivia

    (No sources this week)

    51 min
  • Episode 001 - Mary Anning | Paleontologist

    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

    1. Emling, Shelley (2011) The Fossil Hunter : Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan. 
    2. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/anning.html
    3. Wikipedia

      4. Women who werk

      1. How to deal with embarrassing situations: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180327102814.htm
      2. Frogs rebounding from chytrid fungus: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/science/frog-species-panama-fungus-rebound.html
      3. Turtles use limbs in foraging: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180328083421.htm

        4. Trivia

        (no sources this week)

         

         

         

        1 hr 13 min

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      Emma and Emlyn teach each other about historic (and current) women in STEM and remind each other about things they DEF should know.