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 Sources 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. “R...
May 26, 2020•50 min•Ep. 62
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. Learn more about us and other women in science at our website www.stemfatalepodcast.com Sources Main Story Wilson, Laura. “Tilly Edinger.” Trowelblazers. h...
May 12, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 61
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 Sources 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 Revi...
Apr 27, 2020•52 min•Ep. 60
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-a...
Apr 13, 2020•49 min•Ep. 59
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-...
Mar 30, 2020•34 min•Ep. 58
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. Also check out our website and merch store: www.stemfatalepodcast.com Sources: 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/ “Found...
Mar 16, 2020•54 min•Ep. 57
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...
Mar 02, 2020•12 min•Ep. 56
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/ Sources 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-Abr2...
Feb 17, 2020•12 min•Season 1Ep. 55
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/ 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&...
Feb 03, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 54
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#...
Jan 21, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 53
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)
Dec 16, 2019•44 min•Ep. 52
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. http...
Dec 04, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 51
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 a...
Dec 02, 2019•53 sec
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.ht...
Nov 18, 2019•54 min•Season 1Ep. 50
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. PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Yamei Kin Biography of Yamei Kin M.D. (1864-1934), (Also Known as Jin Yunmei), the First ...
Nov 04, 2019•48 min•Season 1Ep. 49
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! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link 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 t...
Oct 21, 2019•42 min•Season 1Ep. 48
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! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Beatrice “Tilly” Shilling “Magnificent Women: Beatrice Shilling.” Women in Engineering So...
Oct 07, 2019•39 min•Season 1Ep. 47
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)! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Katia Krafft “Maurice and Katia Kraft” Auckland War Memorial Museum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5CAyaRIW8s “Fire ...
Sep 23, 2019•49 min•Season 1Ep. 46
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! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Ynes Mexia Siber, Kate. “How Finding Rare Plants Saved Ynes Mexia’s Life.” 2019. Outside Online. htt...
Sep 09, 2019•31 min•Season 1Ep. 45
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! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Dr. Margaret Dayhoff “How Margaret Dayhoff brought Modern Computing to Biology” by Leila McNeill. https://www....
Aug 26, 2019•40 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Alternate Title: The Queen of Carbon Emma tells Emlyn about the physicist and electrical engineer, Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus, who studied all things carbon and Emlyn tells Emma about the diet of saber-toothed cats and dire wolves! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus Weil, Martin. “Mildred Dresselhaus, physicist dubbed ‘queen of carbon science,’ dies a...
Aug 12, 2019•53 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Alternate Title: The Drug Detective Emlyn tells Emma about the FDA scientist, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, that kept the birth-defect causing drug, Thalidomide, off the shelves in the US, and Emma tells Emlyn about the *power* of vitamin supplements! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey Transcripts of Dr. Kelsey: https://www.fda.gov/media/89162/downl...
Jul 29, 2019•54 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Alternate Title: Communist Cancers This week we change up the format and talk about TWO historical women in science! Emlyn tells Emma about Dr. Yvonne Barr, who helped discover the first cancer-causing virus in humans, and Emma tells Emma about Dr. Sameera Moussa, an egyptian nuclear physicist who worked to make the medical use of nuclear technology affordable to all! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?u...
Jul 15, 2019•40 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Alternate Title: The Dark Side of Matter Emma tells Emlyn about the astronomer, Dr Vera Rubin, who found the best evidence of dark matter, and Emlyn tells Emma about research showing that male ecologists/zoologists rarely co-author papers with women! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Vera Rubin Interview of Vera Rubin by Alan Lightman on 1989 April 3, Niels Bohr Library ...
Jun 24, 2019•44 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Alternate Title: Conservation Sensation! Emlyn tells Emma about the marine biologist, writer, and environmentalist, Rachel Carson, and Emma tells Emlyn about a heck of a lot of boss ladies! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Rachel Carson Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson Women's History: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/r...
Jun 11, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Alternate Title: The BALLer method Emma tells Emlyn about the chemist who found an effective treatment for leprosy, and Emlyn tells Emma about emotional contagion in ravens! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Alice Augusta Ball Brown, Jeannette. African American Women Chemists. Oxford University Press, 2012. UW School of Pharmacy. “UWSOP alumni legend Alice Ball, Class of...
May 27, 2019•44 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Alternate Title: Authoritarian Seaweed Emlyn tells Emma about the Pacific phycologist and Hawaiian ethnobotanist, Dr. Isabella Aiona Abbott, and Emma tells Emlyn about the body mass index (BMI) of Marvel characters! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Isabella Aiona Abbott LONG STORY SHORT WITH LESLIE WILCOX. Isabella Aiona Abbott. https://www.pbshawaii.org/long-story-shor...
May 13, 2019•50 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Alternate Title: A-Hedy of Her Time Emma tells Emlyn about the Hollywood star and inventor, Hedy Lamarr, and Emlyn tells Emma about the book, Invisible women! Apologies on this episode, we get excited, and there is quite a bit of audio distortion. PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Hedy Lamarr Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. Directed by Alexandra Dean (2017). George, Al...
Apr 30, 2019•51 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Alternate Title: Rift Valleys and Girl Talk Emlyn tells Emma about the cartographer and oceanographer, Marie Tharp, who mapped the ocean floor and found evidence for continental drift, and Emma tells Emlyn about research on sex differences in spatial reasoning! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Marie Tharp Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute article, “Marie Tharp”: https:...
Apr 15, 2019•46 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Alternate Title: Easley Does it Emma tells Emlyn about the NASA computer, mathematician, and rocket scientist, Annie Easley, and Emlyn tells Emma about the first female winner of the Abel Prize, Dr. Karen Uhlenbeck! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Annie J. Easley Interview of Annie J. Easley by Sandra Johnson, 2001, for the NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Projec...
Apr 01, 2019•40 min•Season 1Ep. 34
