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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March 18, 2019Episode 031 - Florence Nightingale | Nurse
Alternate Title: Lady with the Lamp (and Owlet)
Emlyn tells Emma about the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale, and Emma tells Emlyn about schoolgirl climate change warrior, Greta Thunberg.
WARNING: This episode gets nasty (i.e. war hospitals in the 1800s).
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Main Story - Florence Nightingale
“Florence Nightingale” by History Channel: https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/florence-nightingale-1
“Florence Nightingale: the Lady with the Lamp By” Mark Bostridge. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/nightingale_01.shtml#five
Nightingale in Scutari: Her Legacy Reexamined by Christopher J. Gill and Gillian C. Gillhttps://academic.oup.com/cid/article/40/12/1799/314039
"A history that lives on: Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole first met in the Crimea. Elizabeth Anionwu describes how they overcame personal battles to get there." by Anionwu, Elizabeth. http://link.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/apps/doc/A270979329/HRCA?u=txshracd2598&sid=HRCA&xid=4378b9e3.
Florence Nightingale, the Woman and her Legend, by Mark Bostridge
Eight little-known facts about Florence Nightingale by the History Press https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/eight-little-known-facts-about-florence-nightingale/
A Brief History of Sexy Nurses by Dan Gentile. https://www.thrillist.com/sex-dating/nation/history-of-the-sexy-nurse
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Greta Thunberg, schoolgirl climate change warrior: ‘Some people can let things go. I can’t’ by Jonathan Watts (2019). https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/11/greta-thunberg-schoolgirl-climate-change-warrior-some-people-can-let-things-go-i-cant

Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“The Fish Cheer / I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To Die Rag” by Country Joe and The Fish
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Wellcome Images
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56min
March 04, 2019Episode 030 - Zelia Nuttall | Anthropologist & Archeologist
Alternate Title: Terracotta Heads and the Island of Sacrifices
Emma tells Emlyn about the American anthropologist and archeologist, Zelia Nuttall, who spent her life studying remnants of ancient Mexican civilizations, and Emlyn tells Emma about #MeTooSTEM founder, Dr. McLaughlin, and Project PHaEDRA!
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Main Story - Zelia Nuttall
The Archaeologist Who Helped Mexico Find Glory in Its Indigenous Past. McNeil, Leila. Smithsonian.com. Nov 5, 2018. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/archaeologist-who-helped-mexico-find-glory-its-past-180970700/
Ruiz, Carmen. Insiders and outsiders in Mexican archaeology (1890-1930). Diss. 2003. https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/905
Zelia Nuttall: The Queen of Mexican Archeology https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/zelia-nuttall
Tozzer, Alfred M. Zelia Nuttall. American Anthropologist 35.3 (1933): 475-482. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1525/aa.1933.35.3.02a00070
Adams, Amanda. Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure.
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Shoutout #1: Science article about Dr. McLaughlin. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/neuroscientist-fighting-sexual-harassment-science-her-own-job-peril
Shoutout #2: Project Phaedra. https://library.cfa.harvard.edu/project-phaedra

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

Cover Image: The Bancroft Library, University of California
Images of Terracotta Heads: https://archive.org/details/jstor-495843/page/n23
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57min
February 18, 2019Episode 029 - Jane Cooke Wright | Oncologist & Surgeon
Alternate Title: The Fairy Godmother of Chemotherapy
Emlyn tells Emma about the revolutionary oncologist and surgeon who contributed immensely to chemotherapy, Dr. Jane Cooke Wright, and Emma tells Emlyn about the hidden female figures behind population genetics!
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Main Story - Jane Cooke Wright
“WOMEN IN SCIENCE: JANE C. WRIGHT REVOLUTIONIZED CANCER RESEARCH (1919-2013)” by Dr. Ellen Elliot. https://www.jax.org/news-and-insights/jax-blog/2016/november/women-in-science-jane-wright
“A Passion for Solving the Puzzle of Cancer: Jane Cooke Wright, M.D., 1919-2013” by Sandra M. Swain. http://theoncologist.alphamedpress.org/content/18/6/646.full
Women Pioneers of Medical Research: Biographies of 25 Outstanding Scientists by King-Thom Chung.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_C._Wright
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Researchers discover some of the “hidden figures” of population genetics by scouring old papers’ acknowledgement sections for female scientists whose contributions have been overlooked.
Illuminating Women’s Hidden Contribution to Historical Theoretical Population Genetics. Samantha Kristin Dung, Andrea López, Ezequiel Lopez Barragan, Rochelle-Jan Reyes, Ricky Thu, Edgar Castellanos, Francisca Catalan, Emilia Huerta-Sánchez and Rori V. Rohlfs. GENETICS. February 1, 2019 vol. 211 no. 2 363-366; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.301277
“The Women Who Contributed to Science but Were Buried in Footnotes” by Ed Yong: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/womens-history-in-science-hidden-footnotes/582472/
Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

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47min
February 04, 2019Episode 028 - Florence Bascom | Geologist
Alternate Title: The United States of Bascom
Emma tells Emlyn about the American geology pioneer and first woman hired to the USGS, Dr. Florence Bascom, and Emlyn tells Emma about gene drives in mammals!
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Main Story - Dr. Florence Bascom
Arnold, Lois B. “BECOMING A GEOLOGIST: FLORENCE BASCOM IN WISCONSIN, 1874-1887.” Earth Sciences History, vol. 18, no. 2, 1999, pp. 159–179.
Arnold, Lois B. “BECOMING A GEOLOGIST: FLORENCE BASCOM AND JOHNS HOPKINS, 1888–1895.” Earth Sciences History, vol. 19, no. 1, 2000, pp. 2–25
Ogilvie, Ida H. “Florence Bascom: 1862-1945.” Science, vol. 102, no. 2648, 1945, pp. 320–321.
Schafer, Elizabeth D. “Bascom, Florence (1862–1945).” Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Ed. Anne Commire. Vol. 2. Detroit, MI: Yorkin Publications, 2002. pp. 205-211.
Schneiderman, Jill S. “A Life of Firsts: Florence Bascom.” GSA Today, July 1997, pp. 8-9
Shillito, Lisa-Marie. “Florence Bascom.” https://trowelblazers.com/florence-bascom/

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Gene Drive in Mammals
Nature article by Grunwald et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-0875-2
Nature commentary by Bruce Conklin: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00185-y
Science News article by Tina Hesman Saey: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/crispr-gene-drive-mice-pest-control-one-step-closer-reality

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

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Lyell collections
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54min
January 21, 2019Episode 027 - Rosalind Franklin | X-ray Crystallographer
Alternate Title: Our Dark Lady of DNA
Emlyn tells Emma about the x-ray crystallographer, Dr. Rosalind Franklin, who was instrumental in discovering the structure of DNA, and Emma tells Emlyn about "messy" companion stars!
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Main Story - Dr. Rosalind Franklin
“Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment” by Beryl Lieff Benderly https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2018/08/rosalind-franklin-and-damage-gender-harassment
Dainton, Sir Frederick Sydney (1981). "Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, 9 November 1897 – 7 June 1978". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 27: 379–424. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1981.0016. JSTOR 769878.
“Rosalind Franklin” by PBS: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bofran.html
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
“Rosalind Franklin” by Wikipedia
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Dr. Melissa Graham and a team of researchers observe “messy” companion stars in binary star systems that lead to supernova.
https://www.washington.edu/news/2019/01/10/messy-supernova/
https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-knows/what-is-a-supernova.html

Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Supernova Girl” by Zenon

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Ann Ronan Picture Library—World History Archive/age fotostock
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1h 4min
January 07, 2019Episode 026 - Gertrude Belle Elion |Biochemist
Alternate Title: Purine Queen
Emma tells Emlyn about the chemist, Gertrude Belle Elion, who won a Nobel Prize for discovering new ways to treat diseases like leukemia and HIV, and Emlyn tells Emma about the upcoming film about Mary Anning!
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Main Story - Gertrude B. Elion
Gertrude B. Elion – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2019. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1988/elion/biographical/
Koenig, Rick. The Legacy of Great Science: The Work of Nobel Laureate Gertrude Elion Lives On. The Oncologist. October, 2006. http://theoncologist.alphamedpress.org/content/11/9/961
American Chemical Society. Gertrude Elion (1918–1999). https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/women-scientists/gertrude-elion.html
Science History Institute. George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/george-hitchings-and-gertrude-elion
Avery, Mary Ellen. Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999). Biographical Memoir for the National Academy of Sciences. 2000. http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/elion-gertrude.pdf
Kresge, N, Simini, RD, and RL Hill. Developing the Purine Nucleoside Analogue Acyclovir: the Work of Gertrude B. Elion. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2008. http://www.jbc.org/content/283/19/e11.full.html#ref-list-1
Altman, Lawrence K. “Gertrude Elion, Drug Developer, Dies at 81.” New York Times, 1999. https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/23/us/gertrude-elion-drug-developer-dies-at-81.html

Women who werk
New movie coming out about Mary Anning! https://variety.com/2018/film/news/kate-winslet-saoirse-ronan-ammonite-fossil-hunter-francis-lee-1203090106/

Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“La Vie Boheme” by Rent

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Courtesy of GlaxoSmithKline Inc. Heritage Center.
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45min
December 24, 2018 24 women of STEMmas!
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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“21 questions" by 50 Cent
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“No Copyright Music: Christmas Instrumentals” by Heroboard: Music for Creators https://youtu.be/dYyPTy6425U
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31min
December 10, 2018Episode 024 - Eunice Newton Foote | Climate Scientist
Alternate Title: You, Nice Foot!
Emlyn tells Emma about Eunice Newton Foote, the climate scientist who discovered that carbon dioxide was the main cause of global warming, and Emma tells Emlyn about geckos and coffee!
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Main Story - Eunice Newton Foote
The Current, UC Santa Barbara, “Righting a Scientific Wrong”: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018985/righting-scientific-wrong
Wikipedia, “Eunice Newton Foote”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Newton_Foote#cite_note-genealogy-1
AAPG Search and Discovery, “Eunice Foote’s Pioneering Research on CO2 and Climate Warming: Update*”: http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/pdfz/documents/2018/70317sorenson/ndx_sorenson.pdf.html
Smithsonian Magazine article by Leila McNeil entitled “This Lady Scientist Defined the Greenhouse Effect But Didn’t Get the Credit, Because Sexism”: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/lady-scientist-helped-revolutionize-climate-science-didnt-get-credit-180961291/
Think Progress article by Kyla Mandel entitled “This woman fundamentally changed climate science — and you’ve probably never heard of her”: https://thinkprogress.org/female-climate-scientist-eunice-foote-finally-honored-for-her-contributions-162-years-later-21b3cf08c70b/
“AMERICAN WOMEN IN SCIENCE BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR” by Elizabeth Wagner Reed: http://www.catherinecreed.com/assets/writings/women_in_science.pdf

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Jessica Nirodi and co. describe how geckos (almost) walk on water.
Pop Article: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/physics-how-geckos-almost-walk-water?tgt=nr
Paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)31469-6#%20
Marilyn Cornelis and co. find that coffee drinkers are more likely to perceive bitterness of caffeine.
Pop article: https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2018/11/genetic-variants-in-caffeine-perception/
Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-34713-z

Music
“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“PlasmaMash” by Daryl Bolling
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42min
November 26, 2018Episode 023 - Sofia Kovalevskaya | Mathematics
Alternate Title: Name Drops and Spinning Tops
Emma tells Emlyn about the first woman to get at PhD in Mathematics, Dr. Sofia Kovalevskaya, and Emlyn tells Emma about the burden of antimicrobial resistance in the EU!
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Main Story - Sofia (Sonya) Kovalevskaya
Alic, Margaret. (1986) Hypatia's heritage : a history of women in science from antiquity to the late nineteenth century. http://www.worldcat.org/title/hypatias-heritage-a-history-of-women-in-science-from-antiquity-to-the-late-nineteenth-century/oclc/1023906461
Cooke, R. (1984) The Mathematics of Sonya Kovalevskaya. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9780387960302
Lamb, Evelyn (2017) A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Kovalevskaya Top. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/a-few-of-my-favorite-spaces-the-kovalevskaya-top/
Ellison, Leigh (2002) Sofia Kovalevskaya. http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Projects/Ellison/index.html
Wilson, Becky (1997) Sofia Kovalevskaya. https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/kova.htm
Belits, Yuriy (2005) A Brief Biography of Sofia Kovalevskaya. https://web.archive.org/web/20060920215141/http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~wcherowi/courses/m4010/s05/belitspdf.pdf
Meares, Kimberley. The Works of Sonya Kovalevskaya http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/EIMI/2000/sofia/SKpaper.html

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Tacconelli, E. and M.D. Pezzani (2018). Public health burden of antimicrobial resistance in Europe. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(18)30648-0/fulltext

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

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Wikipedia
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57min
November 12, 2018Episode 022 - Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin | Astrophysicist
Alternate Title: No Payne, No Gain
Emlyn tells Emma about the astrophysicist that discovered the composition of the sun and stars, Dr. Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin, and Emma tells Emlyn about midterm election results and the STEMinists headed to Washington!
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Main Story - Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin
American Physics Society NEWS by Richard Williams: https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201501/physicshistory.cfm
American Institute of Physics Interview with Payne-Gaposchkin: https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/4620
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin

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Many amazing women elected Nov 6, 2018: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/us/elections/women-elected-midterm-elections.html
https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-women-elected/
Scientists that won their elections: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/some-takeaways-science-yesterday-s-us-elections
Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas and former psychiatric nurse) may take over for Lamar Smith as Chair of the House Science Commiittee: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/11/eddie-bernice-johnson-science-returns-to-the-house/

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“Work” by Rihanna
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

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35min

FAQs about STEM Fatale Podcast:

How many episodes does STEM Fatale Podcast have?

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