STEM Fatale Podcast

STEM Fatale Podcast

By Emlyn Gremlyn and Emma DilemmaScienceHistory
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STEM Fatale Podcast episodes

  • Episode 075 - Marietta Blau | Physicist

    Alternate Title: Overcome with Emulsion

    Emma tells Emlyn all about Marietta Blau, the physicist that developed photographic emulsion technology in order to discover and describe subatomic particles and their behavior! 


    Learn about us and other women in STEM on our website https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/ 

     

    Sources

    Main Story - Marietta Blau

    1. Perlmutter, A.. “Marietta Blau's Work After World War II.” arXiv: History and Philosophy of Physics (2001). https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0110028 
  • Sime, Ruth L. “Marietta Blau: Pioneer of Photographic Nuclear Emulsions and Particle Physics.” Physics in Perspective (2013).  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00016-012-0097-6
  • McArdle, James.  January 27: Exposed. On This Day in Photography. 2018.
  • Interview of Leopold Halpern by Maria Rentetzi on 1999 March 5, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA, www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/32406  

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    Women who Work 

    • G. Casetta, A.P. Nolfo and E. Palagi. Yawn contagion promotes motor synchrony in wild lions, Panthera leo. Animal Behaviour. Vol. 174, April 2021, p. 149. Doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.02.010.
  • “Yawning helps lions synchronize their groups’ movements” by Jake Buehler, Sciencenews.com. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/lion-yawn-contagious-synchronize-group-movement-hunt 

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    Music 

    “Mary Anning” by Artichoke

    “Work” by Rihanna

     

    Cover Image

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marietta_Blau.jpg

    1 hr 11 min
  • Episode 074 - Janaki Ammal | Cytologist & Botanist

    Alternate Title: The Sweet Smell of Success

    Emlyn tells Emma about the Indian cytologist and plant breeder, Dr. Janaki Ammal!

     

    Learn about us and other women in STEM on our website https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/ 

     

    Sources

    Main Story - Dr. Janaki Ammal

    1. “Pioneering Female Botanist Who Sweetened a Nation and Saved a Valley” by Leila McNeill, Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/pioneering-female-botanist-who-sweetened-nation-and-saved-valley-180972765/ 
    1. Follow Leila McNeil @LEILASEDAI on twitter, check out her website (http://www.leilamcneill.com/) and the Lady Science Magazine (https://www.ladyscience.com/).
  • “Celebrating Women’s History Month: Janaki Ammal, India’s First Woman Ph.D in Botany, and a Michigan Connection,” University of Michigan.  https://mbgna.umich.edu/celebrating-womens-history-month-janaki-ammal-indias-first-woman-ph-d-in-botany-and-a-michigan-connection/
  • “Remembering Dr Janaki Ammal, pioneering botanist, cytogeneticist and passionate Gandhian” by Geeta Doctor, scroll.in. https://scroll.in/article/730186/remembering-dr-janaki-ammal-pioneering-botanist-cytogeneticist-and-passionate-gandhian
  • “Janaki Ammal”, Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janaki_Ammal 



    • Women who Work 

    • URI researchers: Microbes deep beneath seafloor survive on byproducts of radioactive process 



    Music 

    “Mary Anning” by Artichoke

    “Work” by Rihanna

     

    Cover Image

    File:Dr. EK Janaki Ammal.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

    43 min
  • Short Stories 5 - Jimena Quirós | Oceanographer

    Alternate Title: The Oceanographer

    Emma tells a short story about Spain's first oceanographer, Jimena Quirós.

     

    Learn about us and other women in STEM on our website https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/ 

     

    Sources

    Lozano, Pablo. "Jimena Quirós: the Civil War cut short the career of the first oceanographer in the history of Spain." Oceánicas. 2018. Translated by Google Translate. https://oceanicas.ieo.es/jimena-quiros-la-primera-oceanografa-en-la-historia-de-espana-cuya-carrera-trunco-la-guerra/ 

     

    Music

    “Mary Anning” by Artichoke

     

    Cover Image

    https://mujeresconciencia.com/2019/12/05/jimena-quiros-oceanografa/

    14 min
  • Short Stories 4 - Geraldine Pittman Woods | Neuroembryologist

    Alternate Title: The Facilitator

    Emma tells a short story about Dr. Geraldine Pittman Woods, the neuroembryologist turned science administrator and advocate for minorities in STEM. 

     

    Learn about us and other women in STEM on our website https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/ 

     

    Sources

    1. Warren, Wini. Black women scientists in the United States. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1999. https://archive.org/details/blackwomenscient00warr/page/269/mode/1up 

    2. Woo, Elaine. "Geraldine Woods; Scientist Helped Launch Head Start." Los Angeles Times. 2000. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-05-mn-50930-story.html 

     

    Music

    “Mary Anning” by Artichoke

     

    Cover Image

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Geraldine_Pittman_Woods.gif

    17 min
  • Episode 073 - Jessie Isabelle Price | Bacteriologist

    Alternate Title: The Duchess of Duck Disease

    Emlyn tells Emma about the bacteriologist and duck disease expert, Dr. Jessie Isabelle Price!

     

    Learn about us and other women in STEM on our website https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/ 

     

    Sources

    Main Story - Jessie Price 

    1. Wikipedia, “Jessie Isabelle Price”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Isabelle_Price 
  • "Doctor to Long Island Ducks". Ebony. September 1964. 
  • Find a Grave, “Dr. Dorsey William Bruner.” Dr Dorsey William Bruner (1906-1996)   
  • Gillmer, S. (2018, August 04) Jessie Isabelle Price (1930-2015). https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/price-jessie-isabelle-1930-2015/ 
  • “Dr. Jessie Isabelle Price - Veterinary Microbiologist” by Karel Green, POC2 . https://poc2.co.uk/2019/03/14/dr-jessie-isabelle-price-veterinary-microbiologist/ 



    • Women who Work 

    • Discoveries at the Edge of the Periodic Table: First Ever Measurements of Einsteinium 

     

    Music 

    “Mary Anning” by Artichoke

    “Work” by Rihanna

     

    Cover Image

    "Doctor to Long Island Ducks". Ebony. September 1964. 

    44 min
  • Episode 072 - Helia Bravo Hollis | Botanist

    Alternate Title: Bravo, Helia!

    Emma tells Emlyn about the famous botanist and Queen of Cacti, Helia Bravo Hollis!

     

    Learn about us and other women in STEM on our website https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/ 

     

    Sources

    Main Story - Helia Bravo Hollis

    1. Aguilar-Rocha, M. A lifetime among Cacti: Helia Bravo-Hollis – Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  • Natural History Museum. Bravo Hollis, Helia (1901-2001) on JSTOR. 
  • Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Mexican Revolution". Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 May. 2020, https://www.britannica.com/event/Mexican-Revolution.  
  •  Lopez, Alberto. Helia Bravo Hollis, la reina de los cactus. El País. 2018.
  • Salcedo Meza, Concepción. Helia Bravo Hollis. ¿Cómoves? 2001.
  • Morales-Sandoval, Jesús & Scheinvar, Leia. (2019). The Cactus Explorer Cactus People Histories. Who is Helia Bravo-Hollis?. 2019. 16-22. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334316889_The_Cactus_Explorer_Cactus_People_Histories_Who_is_Helia_Bravo-Hollis
  • Bravo-Hollis, Helia. Memorias de una vida y una profesión. Mexico, Instituto de Biología, UNAM, 2004. 



    • Women who Work

    • Pan, YY., Nara, M., Löwemark, L. et al. The 20-million-year old lair of an ambush-predatory worm preserved in northeast Taiwan. Sci Rep 11, 1174 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79311-0 
  • Yu-Yen Pan, Masakazu Nara, Ludvig Löwemark, Olmo Miguez-Salas, Björn Gunnarson, Yoshiyuki Iizuka, Tzu-Tung Chen, Shahin E. Dashtgard. The 20-million-year old lair of an ambush-predatory worm preserved in northeast Taiwan. Scientific Reports, 2021; 11 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-79311-0
  • Pennichnus formasae: Homes of Ancient Bobbit Worm were Discovered! https://youtu.be/2ik3L_R9dDA 

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    Music 

    “Mary Anning” by Artichoke

    “Work” by Rihanna

     

    Cover Image

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helia_Bravo_Hollis.jpg

    50 min
  • Episode 071 - Hertha Aryton | Engineer & Inventor

    Alternate Title: Fans of Ayrton

    Emlyn tells Emma about the genius engineer, mathematician, physicist, inventor, and suffragette, Hertha Aryton. 

     

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    Sources

    Main Story - Hertha Ayrton

    1. “The Life and material culture of Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854-1923): suffragette, physicist, mathematician, and inventor” by Elizabeth Bruton. Science Museum Group Journal. Autumn 2018, Issue 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/181002 
  • “Meet Hertha Ayrton, the mathematician who cleared WWI trenches of poisonous gas” by Joan Meiners. June 5th, 2020. Massive Science. https://massivesci.com/articles/hertha-ayrton-mathematics-bodichon-electric-arc/    
  • Wikipedia, “Hertha Ayrton”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertha_Ayrton 

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    Women who Work

    This week, we wanted to give credit to the many wonderful women who made the new COVID-19 vaccines possible! Read more about them in the following articles:

    1. Kizzmekia Corbett, an African American woman, is praised as key scientist behind COVID-19 vaccine 
  • Katalin Kariko's work in mRNA is the basis of the Covid-19 vaccine
  • Meet Kathrin Jansen who leads Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine team 
  • Prof Sarah Gilbert: The woman who designed the Oxford vaccine 

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    Music 

    “Mary Anning” by Artichoke

    “Work” by Rihanna

     

    Cover Image

    File:Hertha Ayrton LCCN2014716701 (cropped).jpg 

    George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, LCCN 2014716701 

     

    1 hr 3 min
  • Episode 070 - The 24 Women of STEM-mas - Trivia #3

    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?? 


     
    Sources
    Music
    “Mary Anning” by Artichoke
    “No Copyright Music: Christmas Instrumentals” by Heroboard: Music for Creators https://youtu.be/dYyPTy6425U

    58 min
  • Episode 069 - Nettie Maria Stevens | Geneticist

    Alternate Title: Sex Cells

    Emma tells Emlyn about the geneticist Dr. Nettie Maria Stevens, who was one of the first scientists to discover sex determination by chromosomes.

     

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    Sources

    Main Story - Nettie Maria Stevens 

    1. Brush, S. (1978). Nettie M. Stevens and the Discovery of Sex Determination by Chromosomes. Isis, 69(2), 163-172. Retrieved November 23, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/230427
  • Ogilvie, M., & Choquette, C. (1981). Nettie Maria Stevens (1861-1912): Her Life and Contributions to Cytogenetics. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 125(4), 292-311. Retrieved November 23, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/986332
  • Stevens, Nettie Maria. (1901). Studies on Ciliate Infusoria. United States, Hopkins Seaside Laboratory. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Studies_on_Ciliate_Infusoria/8Ic_AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22studies+on+ciliate+infusoria%22&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcover
  • O'Connor, C. & Miko, I. (2008) Developing the chromosome theory. Nature Education 1(1):44. https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/developing-the-chromosome-theory-164/#
  • Gelling, C. (2016). Nettie Stevens: Sex chromosomes and sexism. Genes to Genomes Blog by GSA. http://genestogenomes.org/nettie-stevens-sex-chromosomes-and-sexism/



    • Women who Work

    1. Sara B Weinstein, Katrina Nyawira Malanga, Bernard Agwanda, Jesús E Maldonado, M Denise Dearing. The secret social lives of African crested rats, Lophiomys imhausi. Journal of Mammalogy, 2020 DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyaa127
  • University of Utah. "The secret social lives of giant poisonous rats." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 19 November 2020. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201119135403.htm 

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    Music 

    “Mary Anning” by Artichoke

    “Work” by Rihanna

     

    Cover Image

    The Incubator (courtesy of Carnegie Institution of Washington) - http://incubator.rockefeller.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/NettieStevens.jpg

    1 hr 8 min
  • Episode 068 - Susan La Flesche Picotte | Physician

    Alternate Title: La Flesche and Blood

    Emlyn tells Emma about Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American physician, who used her training and expertise to campaign for social reform and health care in her Omaha community.

     

    Learn more about us and other women in science at our website www.stemfatalepodcast.com 

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    Sources

    Main Story - Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte

    1. “The Incredible Legacy of Susan La Flesche, The First Native America to Earn a Medical Degree” by Carson Vaughan, Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/incredible-legacy-susan-la-flesche-first-native-american-earn-medical-degree-180962332/
  • “The First Native American to Receive a Medical Degree” by Allison C. Meier, JStor Daily. https://daily.jstor.org/the-first-native-american-to-receive-a-medical-degree/
  • “Native American Disease and Epidemics,” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_epidemics
  • Susan la flesche picotte: A doctor who spanned two cultures. The Lancet. 2019;393(10173):734. 
  • “Susan La Flesche Picotte,” National Park Service. https://www.nps.gov/people/susan-la-flesche-picotte.htm
  • “Ulysses S. Grant: Mass Genocide Through ‘Permanent Peace’ Policy” by Alysa Landry, Indian Country Today. https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/ulysses-s-grant-mass-genocide-through-permanent-peace-policy-Ing8OYiNuU6hw6ZgulRA9Q
  • Starita, Joe. A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Doctor. New York, St. Martin’s Press, 2016. 

    • Women who Work

    Flaherty, Colleen. Study finds gender bias in TA evals, too. Inside Higher Ed. 2020.

     

    Music 

    “Mary Anning” by Artichoke

    “Work” by Rihanna

     

    Cover Image

    Courtesy of the Nebraska State Historical Society Photograph Collections. This image was found at The National Library of Medicine. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_253.html

    1 hr 8 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.