STEM Fatale Podcast

By Emlyn Gremlyn and Emma Dilemma

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

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May 26, 2020Episode 057 - Eva Crane | Entomologist & Nuclear Physicist
Alternate Title: un-BEE-lievaable
Emma tells Emlyn all about the nuclear physicist turned world-renowned bee researcher, Eva Crane, and Emlyn tells Emma about new research on bumble bee behavior!
Learn more about our podcast and other women in science at our website www.stemfatalepodcast.com

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Main Story - Eva Crane
Eva Crane: Bee Scientist 1912-2007. United Kingdom, International Bee Research Assn., 2008. https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/6GwZ2ZkADL4C?hl=en&gbpv=1
Miksha, Ron. “Remembering Eva Crane: Beekeeper and Physicist.” Bad Beekeeping Blog. 2019. https://badbeekeepingblog.com/2019/06/12/remembering-eva-crane-beekeeper-and-physicist/
Marren, Peter. Obituary for Eva Crane. The Independent. 2007. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/eva-crane-402281.html
Railton, Francesca. “The secret life of bees: the life and work of Eva Crane.” Royal Botanical Gardens KEW, KEW.org. https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/the-secret-life-of-bees-the-life-and-work-of-eva-crane
“About Eva Crane.” Eva Crane Trust. https://www.evacranetrust.org/page/eva-crane
“Publication Index.” Eva Crane Trust. https://www.evacranetrust.org/page/publication-index

Women who Work
“Bumblebees Bite Plants to Force Them to Flower (Seriously)” by Jim Daley, Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bumblebees-bite-plants-to-force-them-to-flower-seriously/?amp
Pashalidou, F. G., Lambert, H., Peybernes, T., Mescher, M. C. & De Moraes, C. M. Bumble bees damage plant leaves and accelerate flower production when pollen is scarce. Science 368, 881 (2020). https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6493/881

Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Work” by Rihanna

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The Eva Crane Trust
https://www.evacranetrust.org/page/eva-crane
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51min
May 12, 2020Episode 056 - Tilly Edinger | Paleoneurologist
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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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

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TillyEdinger.jpg
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1h 10min
April 27, 2020Episode 055 - Pearl Kendrick/Grace Eldering/Loney Clinton Gordon | Vaccine Creators & Public Health Scientists
Alternate Title: Whoop! (There It Isn't)
Emma tells Emlyn about the scientists that created the first widely used vaccine for whooping cough (pertussis): Dr. Pearl Kendrick, Dr. Grace Eldering, and Loney Clinton Gordon.
Learn more about us and other women in science at our website www.stemfatalepodcast.com

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Main Story
Shapiro-Shapin, Carolyn G. “‘A Whole Community Working Together’: Pearl Kendrick, Grace Eldering, and the Grand Rapids Pertussis Trials, 1932-1939.” Michigan Historical Review, vol. 33, no. 1, 2007, pp. 59–85. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20174193.
Killian, Eryn. “The Trailblazer.” University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library. https://bentley.umich.edu/features/the-trailblazer/
Shift7 for Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls. “Pearl Kendrick, Grace Eldering, and Loney Clinton Gordon developed the whooping cough and single dose DTP vaccines” https://amysmartgirls.com/20for2020-pearl-kendrick-grace-eldering-and-loney-clinton-gordon-developed-the-pertussis-and-c035f2858d6
CDC pages on Pertussis/Whooping Cough. https://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/index.html
Finding aid for the Michigan women and the whooping cough vaccine collection. Collection 328. The Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering papers, Katherine Chase scrapbook and other sources Finding aid prepared by Jill Bannink. This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit May 24, 2013. Describing Archives: A Content Standard. https://www.grpl.org/uploads/grhsc/328.pdf
Shapiro-Shapin, Carolyn G. “Pearl Kendrick, Grace Eldering, and the Pertussis Vaccine.” Emerging Infectious Diseases. www.cdc.gov/eid. Vol. 16, No. 8. August 2010. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9198/ba161ce6ecbb2c6816e10cc7e4ef28625048.pdf?_ga=2.142500848.35409263.1587737011-1375607549.1587737011
Santa Fe Institute News. “Study: Is the whooping cough resurgence due to vaccinated people not knowing they’re infectious?” 2015. https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/althouse-scarpino-whooping-cough-asymptomatic
Marks, Harry M. “The Kendrick-Eldering-(Frost) pertussis vaccine field trial.” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. vol. 100,5 (2007): 242-7. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1861415/

Women who Work
Guardian Article about the success of female leaders in containing covid-19: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/25/why-do-female-leaders-seem-to-be-more-successful-at-managing-the-coronavirus-crisis
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Work” by Rihanna

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Lt: Pearl Kendrick (Image courtesy of U-M Library Digital Collections. Bentley Image Bank, Bentley Historical Library). Center: Grace Eldering (Image via Grand Rapids History and Special Collections (GRHSC), Archives, Grand Rapids Public Library, Grand Rapids, Michigan) Rt: Loney Clinton Gordon (image via Michigan Women Forward).
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52min
April 13, 2020Episode 054 - Alice Hamilton | Industrial Toxicologist & Doctor
Alternate Title: Duke of Occupational Hazards
Emlyn tells Emma about Dr. Alice Hamilton, a scientist, doctor, public health expert, and pioneer in the fields of industrial toxicology and occupational health.

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

Sources
Main Story - Alice Hamilton
“Pandemics Come and Go But Medical Masks are Eternal” by Virginia Postrel, Bloomberg Opinion. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-10/medical-face-masks-an-illustrated-history
“Celebrating the life of Alice Hamilton, founding mother of occupational medicine” by Dr. Howard Markel, PBS. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/celebrating-life-alice-hamilton-founding-mother-occupational-medicine
“Lead, TNT, and Rayon: Dr. Alice Hamilton’s Battle Against Industrial Poisons” by Dale Debakcsy, Women You Should Know. https://womenyoushouldknow.net/alice-hamiltons-battle-against-industrial-poisons/
Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Hamilton

Women who Work
Shoutout to Katelyn Allers and her team for devising a new method for measuring wind speeds on brown dwarfs!
NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "In a first, NASA measures wind speed on a brown dwarf." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 9 April 2020.
Finley, Dave. “Astronomers Measure Wind Speed on a Brown Dwarf.” National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 9 April 2020. https://public.nrao.edu/news/brown-dwarf-wind-speed/
CalTech’s Cool Cosmos page on Brown Dwarfs (for background info): http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/cosmic_reference/brown_dwarfs.html

Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Work” by Rihanna

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Photo courtesy of NIH https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Alice_Hamilton#/media/File:Alice_Hamilton.jpg
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49min
March 30, 2020Episode 053 - Rebecca Lee Crumpler | Doctor
Alternate Title: A Podcast of Medical Discourses
Emma tells Emlyn about Rebecca Lee Crumpler, who became the first female African American doctor during the American Civil War, and who later treated thousands of freed slaves, along with many others, after the war had ended.
Sources:
Main Story - Rebecca Lee Crumpler
Markel, Howard. "Celebrating Rebecca Lee Crumpler, first African-American woman physician." PBS News Hour. 2016. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/celebrating-rebecca-lee-crumpler-first-african-american-physician
Pfatteicher, S. "Crumpler, Rebecca Davis Lee (1831-1895), physician." American National Biography. 2000. https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1201058.
Friend of Hyde Park Branch Library Blog. "Rebecca Lee’s Medical Training." 2020. https://hplibraryfriends.wordpress.com/2020/03/01/rebecca-lees-medical-training/
Cazalet, Sylvain. "New England Female Medical College & New England Hospital for Women and Children." 2001. http://www.homeoint.org/cazalet/histo/newengland.htm
Neal, Anthony W. "Dr. Crumpler: Nation’s first African American woman physician." 2012. https://www.baystatebanner.com/2012/09/05/dr-crumpler-nations-first-african-american-woman-physician/

Women who Work
Shoutout to Rebecca Lakin and team for their paper on the reproduction across Crocodylia!
University of Bath. "Crocs' better parenting skills could make them more resilient to climate change." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 11 March 2020. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200311112008.htm.
Lakin, R. J., Barrett, P. M., Stevenson, C., Thomas, R. J. & Willis, M. A. First evidence for a latitudinal body mass effect in extant Crocodylia and the relationships of their reproductive characters. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blz208/5713003
Shoutout to Otlet and co-founder, Madeline Green, for their work starting a match-making system between graduate students in need of data and PIs with datasets that need to be analyzed.
Goodle Forms: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdl32ju3IifAETih1F116fdqygS-WGVOI_7NVBhKTg7m6P6ZQ/viewform
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Work” by Rihanna

Cover Image
There are no known pictures of Rebecca Lee Crumpler, thus our cover image is from her book, available to the public through the NIH:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crumpler_A-Book-of-Medical-Discourses.jpg

Learn more about us and other women in science at our website www.stemfatalepodcast.com
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35min
March 16, 2020Episode 052 - Clara Barton | Nurse
Alternate Title: The Angel of the Battlefield
Emlyn tells Emma about Clara Barton, the self-taught nurse who cared for thousands of wounded soldiers and founded the American Red Cross.
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Main Story - Clara Barton
Clara Barton Wikipedia Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Barton
Sawbones podcast, Episode 3 (Bloodletting) Transcript https://maximumfun.org/transcripts/sawbones/transcript-sawbones-bloodletting/
“Founder Clara Barton” by the Red Cross. https://www.redcross.org/content/dam/redcross/enterprise-assets/about-us/history/history-clara-barton-v5.pdf
“The founder of the Red Cross faced down sexism her whole life” by Gillian Brockell, Washington Post Article. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/05/06/union-doctors-demanded-male-nurses-during-civil-war-clara-barton-defied-them/

Women who Work
Wolters Kluwer Health. "COVID-19 appears less severe in children, Says Review in Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal." March, 2020. http://home.lww.com/news.entry.html/2020/03/13/covid-19_appearsles-YgCo.html
University of California - Berkeley. "Coronavirus outbreak raises question: Why are bat viruses so deadly? Bats' fierce immune systems drive viruses to higher virulence, making them deadlier in humans. February, 2020. https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/02/10/coronavirus-outbreak-raises-question-why-are-bat-viruses-so-deadly/

Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Work” by Rihanna

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Mathew Brady
http://www.wepanknowledgecenter.org/marie-curie/
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54min
March 02, 2020Short Stories 3 - June Almeida | Virologist
Alternate Title: The Virus Photographer
Emma flies solo again this week with a short story about the amazing woman who determined how to image and identify viruses like the coronaviruses, hepatitis B, HIV, rubella, and more!
Website: https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/

Sources
Main Story - June Almeida
Almeida J. (2008). June Almeida (née Hart). BMJ : British Medical Journal, 336 (7659), 1511. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.a434
Booss, J., MD and August, M.J., PhD (2014). Imaging Viruses and Tagging Their Antigens. In To Catch a Virus (eds J. Booss and M.J. August). doi:10.1128/9781555818586.ch7
Goldsmith, C. S., & Miller, S. E. (2009). Modern uses of electron microscopy for detection of viruses. Clinical microbiology reviews, 22(4), 552–563. https://doi.org/10.1128/CMR.00027-09

Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

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From Joyce Almeida, in Booss, J., MD and August, M.J., PhD (2014). Imaging Viruses and Tagging Their Antigens. In To Catch a Virus (eds J. Booss and M.J. August). doi:10.1128/9781555818586.ch7
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12min
February 17, 2020Short Stories 2 -Anita Hoffmann | Acarologist
Alternate Title: Tucked in Ticks
Emma flies solo this week with a short story about the prolific Mexican acarologist, Anita Hoffmann.
Website: https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/

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Main Story - Anita Hoffmann
Ortiz, Tila Maria Perez. "Ana Hoffmann Mendizabal." UNAM. 2007. http://www.100.unam.mx/pdf/ana-hoffmann-mendizabal.pdf
Garza, CDE & AAM, Ochoa. Dra. Ana Esther Hoffmann Mendizábal. Artrópodos y Salud. Ene.-Jun., 2016. Vol. 3 No. 1. http://artropodosysalud.com/Publicaciones/No5-Abr2016/2Monografia.pdf

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“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

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http://www.100.unam.mx/pdf/ana-hoffmann-mendizabal.pdf
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13min
February 03, 2020Episode 051 - Marie Curie | Chemist and Physicist (Part 2)
Alternate Title: Curie-ous Elements Part 2
Emma and Emma jointly tell each other about the two-time Nobel Prize winner in both Chemistry and Physics, Dr. Marie Curie! This is part two of our two-part episode!
Website: https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/

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Main Story - Marie Curie
Pasachoff, N. E. Marie Curie and the science of radioactivity. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996. https://books.google.com/books?id=mVCTHbdstdQC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false
NIST.gov. “Marie Curie and the NBS Radium Standards. 1913: The US Curie Standard.” 2009. https://www.nist.gov/pml/marie-curie-and-nbs-radium-standards/1913-us-curie-standard
American Institute of Physics and Naomi Pasachoff. “Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity.” 2004. https://history.aip.org/history/exhibits/curie/sitemap.htm
Des Jardins, Julie. “Madame Curie’s Passion.” Smithsonian Magazine. 2011. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/madame-curies-passion-74183598/
Froman, Nanny. “Marie and Pierre Curie and the discovery of polonium and radium.” NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2020. 1996. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/marie-and-pierre-curie-and-the-discovery-of-polonium-and-radium
American Institute of Physics. “Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity.” https://history.aip.org/history/exhibits/curie/stud1.htm
Tasch, Barbara. “Marie Curie's Belongings Will Be Radioactive For Another 1,500 Years.” Business Insider. 2015. https://www.sciencealert.com/these-personal-effects-of-marie-curie-will-be-radioactive-for-another-1-500-years

Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

Cover Image
http://www.wepanknowledgecenter.org/marie-curie/
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49min
January 21, 2020Episode 050 - Marie Curie | Chemist and Physicist (Part 1)
Alternate Title: Curie-ous Elements Part 1
For the 50th episode, Emma and Emma jointly tell each other about the two-time Nobel Prize winner in both Chemistry and Physics, Dr. Marie Curie! This is part one of a two-part episode!
Website: https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/

Sources
Main Story - Marie Curie
Pasachoff, N. E. Marie Curie and the science of radioactivity. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996. https://books.google.com/books?id=mVCTHbdstdQC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false
NIST.gov. “Marie Curie and the NBS Radium Standards. 1913: The US Curie Standard.” 2009. https://www.nist.gov/pml/marie-curie-and-nbs-radium-standards/1913-us-curie-standard
American Institute of Physics and Naomi Pasachoff. “Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity.” 2004. https://history.aip.org/history/exhibits/curie/sitemap.htm
Des Jardins, Julie. “Madame Curie’s Passion.” Smithsonian Magazine. 2011. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/madame-curies-passion-74183598/
Froman, Nanny. “Marie and Pierre Curie and the discovery of polonium and radium.” NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2020. 1996. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/marie-and-pierre-curie-and-the-discovery-of-polonium-and-radium
American Institute of Physics. “Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity.” https://history.aip.org/history/exhibits/curie/stud1.htm
Tasch, Barbara. “Marie Curie's Belongings Will Be Radioactive For Another 1,500 Years.” Business Insider. 2015. https://www.sciencealert.com/these-personal-effects-of-marie-curie-will-be-radioactive-for-another-1-500-years

Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

Cover Image
http://www.wepanknowledgecenter.org/marie-curie/
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58min

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