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- Episode 049 - 24 Women of STEM-mas Trivia #2
Come play with us! Emma and Emlyn quiz each other about the 24 women of STEM-mas we have covered in our podcast this year! How many questions can you answer??
Merch: http://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/merch
Promo: The Psyched Podcast (@pyschedpodcast1)
45 min - Episode 048 - Beatrix Potter | Mycologist and Writer
Alternate Title: Flopsy, Mopsy, and Fungi
Emma tells Emlyn about the mycologist and famous children's book writer, Beatrix Potter, and Emlyn tells Emma about an eight-year-old girl from Mexico whose IQ rivals Einstein!
New website and merch store: www.stemfatalepodcast.com
Sources
Main Story - Beatrix Potter
- Lear, Linda. Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature. 2008. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312369347/page/130
- Gardiner, B.G. “Beatrix Potter’s fossils and her interest in geology.” 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101126154132/http://linnean.org/fileadmin/images/Beatrix_Potter/BPotter_fossils.pdf
- Debakcsy, Dale. “Mushrooms, Fossils, And A Pen To Draw Them With: Beatrix Potter, Naturalist.” 2019. https://womenyoushouldknow.net/beatrix-potter-naturalist/
- “The Scientific Tale of Author Beatrix Potter.” Science Friday. 2016. https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/the-scientific-tale-of-author-beatrix-potter/
- Fleming, Nic. “Beatrix Potter: Pioneering Scientist or Passionate Amateur?” BBC. 2016. http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160215-beatrix-potter-pioneering-scientist-or-passionate-amateur
- Gristwood, Sarah. The Story of Beatrix Potter. 2016. https://books.google.ca/books?id=EvQcDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT99#v=onepage&q&f=false
Women who Werk - Adhara Perez
- “8-Year-Old Mexican Girl, Who Was Bullied and Labeled 'Weird,' Has Higher IQ Than Einstein: Report” by Benjamin VanHoose. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/8-old-mexican-girl-bullied-182500208.html
- “Ella es Adhara Pérez: la niña mexicana que tiene (casi) el mismo IQ que Albert Einstein” by Karina Gonzalez Ulloa. https://www.vogue.mx/estilo-de-vida/articulo/adhara-perez-sanchez-nina-mexicana-prodigio-quien-es
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke“Work” by RihannaCover Image
Wikipedia28 min - Holiday Merch and Delayed Episode!
First! We have a new website and some holiday merchandise (www.stemfatalepodcast.com/merch) based on our listener survey! We’re selling high-quality color sticker packs of some our favorite portraits by Caitlin Friesen, covering many different disciplines such as Eugenie Clark, badass shark lady, and Annie Easley, NASA Rocket Scientist! We are super pumped about these stickers and getting to spread more awareness of these ladies. Any proceeds from this merch will go towards making the podcast affordable for us to run, that means costs of equipment, hosting site, website. These would be a great stocking stuffer, Hanukkah gift, or just because! To keep these affordable and high quality, we are buying the stickers directly, so please don’t wait as we only ordered a limited number!!
The second announcement is that we couldn’t get it together in time and so our episode will be coming out sometime on Tuesday! Sorry, its been crazy!
Thanks!!
1 min - Episode 047 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas | Conservationist
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
55 min - Episode 046 - Yamei Kin | Doctor
Alternate Title: Like Brains and Sweetbreads
Emma tells Emlyn about the Chinese doctor who merged eastern and western medicine and brought soy to the US, Yamei Kin, and Emlyn tells Emma about new research unraveling the long-term effects of measles.
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Sources
Main Story - Yamei Kin
- Biography of Yamei Kin M.D. (1864-1934), (Also Known as Jin Yunmei), the First Chinese Woman to Take a Medical Degree in the United States (1864-2016), 2nd Ed., With McCartee Family Genealogy and Knight Family Genealogy. By William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyag. http://www.soyinfocenter.com/books/192
- Ives, Mike. Overlooked No More: Yamei Kin, the Chinese Doctor Who Introduced Tofu to the West. The New York Times. 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/obituaries/yamei-kin-overlooked.html
- Roth, Matthew. The Chinese-Born Doctor Who Brought Tofu to America. Smithsonian Magazine. 2018. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/chinese-born-doctor-who-brought-tofu-america-180969977/
Women who Werk
- “New details on immune system ‘amnesia’ show how measles causes long-term damage” by Laura Sanders https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-details-measles-immune-system-amnesia-long-term-damage
- V.N. Petrova et al. Incomplete genetic reconstitution of B cell pools contributes to prolonged immunosuppression after measles. Science Immunology. Vol. 4, November 1, 2019. https://immunology.sciencemag.org/content/4/41/eaay6125
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Work” by Rihanna
Cover Image
Science History Images/Alamy
Promo
Psyched Podcast (http://thepsychedpodcast.com/)
49 min - Episode 045 - Mary the Jewess | Alchemist
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).
42 min - Episode 044 - Beatrice 'Tilly' Shilling | Aeronautical Engineer
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:
- https://therising.co/2019/10/04/meet-activist-autumn-peltier-the-young-water-warrior-making-a-splash/
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
Cover Image
Norton Vintage
40 min - Episode 043 - Katia Krafft | Volcanologist
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
Cover Image
Wikipedia Commons
50 min - Episode 042 -Ynes Mexia | Botanist
Alternate Title: The Late Bloomer
Emma tells Emlyn about Ynes Mexia, the late-blooming botanist that collected over 150,000 plants during her short career, and Emlyn tells Emma about a new climate change podcast, the Warm Regards Podcast!
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Sources
Main Story - Ynes Mexia
- Siber, Kate. “How Finding Rare Plants Saved Ynes Mexia’s Life.” 2019. Outside Online. https://www.outsideonline.com/2390204/ynes-mexia-plant-collector
- Marks, Gabriela S. “Meet Ynes Mexia, late-blooming botanist whose adventures rival Darwin’s.” 2018. Massive Science. https://massivesci.com/articles/ynes-mexia-our-heroes/
- Radcliffe, Jane. “Ynes Mexia (1870-1938).” California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/library/special/bios/Mexia.pdf
- "Mexia, Ynes (1870–1938)." Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. . Encyclopedia.com. (September 8, 2019). https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/mexia-ynes-1870-1938
- Carter, Annetta. Interview of N. Floy Brocelin. "The Ynés Mexía botanical collections : oral history transcript / 1983." https://archive.org/stream/ynsmexabotan00bracrich/ynsmexabotan00bracrich_djvu.txt
- Kiernan, Elizabeth. “Late Bloomer: The Short, Prolific Career of Ynes Mexia.” 2015. NYBG. https://www.nybg.org/blogs/science-talk/2015/02/late-bloomer-the-short-prolific-career-of-ynes-mexia/
- Shor, E. (2000, February). Mexia, Ynes Enriquetta Julietta (1870-1938), botanical collector. American National Biography. https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1302002
Women who Werk
- Warm Regards Podcast - https://slate.com/technology/2016/06/introducing-warm-regards-a-new-climate-change-podcast.html
- https://soundcloud.com/warmregardspodcast/the-dangers-of-doing-science-in-the-field
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
Cover Image
California Academy of Sciences
31 min - Episode 041 - Margaret Dayhoff | Bioinformatician
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
Cover Image
By Ruth Dayhoff
41 min
About STEM Fatale Podcast
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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.