STEM Fatale Podcast

STEM Fatale Podcast

By Emlyn Gremlyn and Emma DilemmaScienceHistory
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STEM Fatale Podcast episodes

  • Episode 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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    Sources

    Main Story - Florence Nightingale

    1. “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

    Cover Image

    Wellcome Images

    56 min
  • Episode 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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    Sources

    Main Story - Zelia Nuttall

    1. 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

    57 min
  • Episode 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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    Sources

    Main Story - Jane Cooke Wright

    1. “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.

    1. 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/

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    “Work” by Rihanna

    “Mary Anning” by Artichoke



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    U.S. National Library of Medicine

    47 min
  • Episode 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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    Sources

    Main Story - Dr. Florence Bascom

    1. 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

    1. 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

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    Music

    “Work” by Rihanna

    “Mary Anning” by Artichoke


    Cover Image’

    Lyell collections

    54 min
  • Episode 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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    Sources

    Main Story - Dr. Rosalind Franklin

    1. “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.

    1. 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

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    Music

    “Work” by Rihanna

    “Mary Anning” by Artichoke

    “Supernova Girl” by Zenon

     

    Cover Image

    Ann Ronan Picture Library—World History Archive/age fotostock

     

     

    1 hr 4 min
  • Episode 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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    SOURCES

    Main Story - Gertrude B. Elion

    1. 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

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    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

     

    Cover Image

    Courtesy of GlaxoSmithKline Inc. Heritage Center.

    45 min
  • 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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    Sources

    Music

    “21 questions" by 50 Cent

    “Mary Anning” by Artichoke

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

    31 min
  • Episode 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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    Sources:

    Main Story - Eunice Newton Foote

    1. 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.

    1. 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.

    1. Pop article: https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2018/11/genetic-variants-in-caffeine-perception/
  • Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-34713-z

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    Music

    “Work” by Rihanna

    “Mary Anning” by Artichoke

    “PlasmaMash” by Daryl Bolling

    42 min
  • Episode 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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    Sources

    Main Story - Sofia (Sonya) Kovalevskaya

    1. 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

     

    Cover art

    Wikipedia

     

    57 min
  • Episode 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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    Sources

    Main Story - Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin

    1. 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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    Women who werk

    1. 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/

    • Music

    “Work” by Rihanna

    “Mary Anning” by Artichoke

     

    Cover art

    Smithsonian Institution Flickr

    35 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.