Stem Fatale Podcast

Alternate Title: In a Nutshell Emma tells Emlyn all about the designer of the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, Captain Frances Glessner Lee, who was incredibly influential in the development of early forensic science in the United States.    Learn more about us and other women in science at our website www.stemfatalepodcast.com    Sources Main Story - Frances Glessner Lee Melinek, Judy, and Goldfarb, Bruce. 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics. United States, Sourcebooks, 2020. The Nutshell Studies. (99 Percent Invisible). The People — Glessner House Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. (Smithsonian American Art Museum). Biographies: Frances Glessner Lee (1878–1962). (NIH). Bush, Erin N. The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. Death by Diorama. Kahn, Eve. “Murder Downsized.” The New York Times. 2004. https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/07/garden/murder-downsized.html?_r=0 The Nutshe

Alternate Title: An Enigmatic Woman Emlyn tells Emma about the cryptanalyst and numismatist Joan Clarke, who worked as a codebreaker for the British army during WWII.    Learn more about us and other women in science at our website www.stemfatalepodcast.com    Sources Main Story - Joan Clarke “Joan Clarke, woman who cracked Enigma cyphers with Alan Turing” by Joe Miller , BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29840653 “100 years ago: Joan Clarke” by American Mathematical Society. https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201703/rnoti-p252.pdf “The Enigma of Joan Clarke: Numismatist” by Heritage Editorial. https://blog.ha.co “Banburismus”, Wikipedia Article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banburismus Women who Work  Wallace, KJ, York, JM. A systems change framework for evaluating academic equity and inclusion in an Ecology and Evolution Graduate Program. Ecol. Evol. 2020; 00: 1– 8. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6817   Music  “Mary Anning” by Artichoke “Work” by Rihanna   Cover Image Or

Alternate Title: Receive One's Compliment Emma tells Emlyn about Xia Peisu, a key founder of China’s electronic computing industry.   Learn more about us and other women in science at our website www.stemfatalepodcast.com    Sources Main Story - Xia Peisu Benavente, Rocío P. “Xia Peisu, the Chinese mother of computing.” Mujeres con Ciencia. 2020. https://mujeresconciencia.com/2020/05/14/xia-peisu-la-madre-china-de-la-computacion/ McNeil, Leila. “The computer pioneer who built modern China.” BBC Future. 2020. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200219-xia-peisu-the-computer-pioneer-who-built-modern-china Wei, Qi. “Xia Peisu, one of the founders of China's computer industry: a quiet life.” Science China Press. 2015. http://news.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2015/4/317119.shtm Lee, Lily Xiao Hong. Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, Volume 2. 1998. https://books.google.com/books?id=XOGdnCPJSOMC&pg=PA572#v=onepage&q&f=false Dr. XIA Peisu’s Funeral Committee “Obituary of Academician XIA Peis

Alternate Title: Math Pretzel Emlyn tells Emma about the amazing mathematician and Fields Medal Winner, Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani.   Learn more about us and other women in science at our website www.stemfatalepodcast.com    Sources Main Story - Maryam Mirzakhani “STEM HISTORY - Maryam Mirzakhani” by STEMulus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAorhUrYO6c “Meet the First Woman to Win Math's Most Prestigious Prize “ by Erica Klarreich. https://www.wired.com/2014/08/maryam-mirzakhani-fields-medal/ Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017) by Kasra Rafi. https://www.nature.com/articles/549032a “Maryam Mirzakhani” Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani Check out this film: “Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Visions of Maryam Mirzakhani” by George Csicsery: http://www.zalafilms.com/secrets/index.html#about   Women who Work  Study finds 'nomophobia' is associated with poor sleep health in college students. Study evaluates immersive virtual reality as a sleep aid for teens.   Music

Alternate Title: A TREE-mendous Life Emma tells Emlyn about Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai, the environmentalist, activist, and Nobel Peace Prize winner who founded the grassroots tree-planting campaign, the Greenbelt Movement.  Learn more about us and other women in science at our website www.stemfatalepodcast.com    Sources Main Story - Wangari Maathai  The Green Belt Movement Maathai, Wangari, Unbowed: a Memoir. William Heinemann, London, 2007. Wangari Maathai – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2020. Mon. 24 Aug 2020. Perlez, Jane. “Nairobi Journal; Skyscraper's Enemy Draws a Daily Dose of Scorn.” The New York Times. 1989. https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/06/world/nairobi-journal-skyscraper-s-enemy-draws-a-daily-dose-of-scorn.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm Gettleman, Jeffrey. “Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dies at 71.” The New York Times. 2011. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/world/africa/wangari-maathai-nobel-peace-prize-laureate-dies-at-71.html     Women who Work 

Alternate Title: Hollywood and Giant Sloths Emlyn tells Emma about the pioneering Abenaki archeologist and anthropologist, Bertha Parker, and Emma tells Emlyn about glaciers on Mars!  Learn more about us and other women in science at our website www.stemfatalepodcast.com    Sources Main Story - Bertha Parker Marranzino, Ashley. “Bertha Parker, the trailblazing first Indigenous North American archaeologist, taught herself how to excavate a site.” Massive Science. https://massivesci.com/articles/bertha-parker-pallan-archaeology-native-american-abenaki-seneca/ Bertha Parker Pallan Cody (1907-1978). Smithsonian Institute Archives. https://www.si.edu/es/object/bertha-parker-pallan-cody-1907-1978:siris_arc_306365 Bruchac, Margaret M.  and Zobel, Melissa Fawcett Tantaquidgeon. 2018. Savage Kin: Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists (Native Peoples of the Americas). University of Arizona Press.  IMDB pages for crimson challenge and Desert Gold. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134611/plotsummary?re

Alternate Title: COALescence Emma tells Emlyn about Dr. Kono Yasui, an expert plant cytologist and the first woman to receive a doctorate of science in Japan.   Learn more about us and other women in science at our website www.stemfatalepodcast.com    Sources Main Story - Kono Yasui McNeill, Leila. “How a Pioneering Botanist Broke Down Japan’s Gender Barriers.” Smithsonian Magazine. 2017. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-pioneering-botanist-broke-down-japans-gender-barriers-180967595/ Ochanomizu University “Kono Yasui (1880-1971) - Japan’s First Woman Doctorate of Science.” Ochanomizu University Digital Archives. 2011. http://archives.cf.ocha.ac.jp/en/researcher/yasui_kono.html Yamazaki, Miwae. “Where no other dared to go: Kono Yasui (1880-1971) Japan’s First Woman Doctorate of Science.” Blazing a Path: Japanese Women’s Contributions to Modern Science. 2001. http://www.igs.ocha.ac.jp/igs/IGS_publication/pdf/yasui_where.pdf HARRINGTON, A. (1987). WOMEN AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE JAP

Alternate Title: Carpe Diem Emlyn tells Emma about the legendary botanist, Dr. Marie Clark Taylor, the first African American woman to receive a PhD in botany. Dr. Taylor was not only a top researcher in her field of photomorphogenesis, but she spent much of her career training science teachers in innovative teaching methods that involved the use of plants. Learn more about us and other women in science at our website www.stemfatalepodcast.com    Sources Main Story - Marie Clark Taylor “Women of Firsts: Marie Clark Taylor” by Lucy Dinsmore, Women in Horticulture. https://www.womeninhorticulture.com/post/woman-of-firsts-marie-clark-taylor  Warren, Wini. Black Women Scientists in the United States. Indiana University Press, 1999.  Plant Science Bulletin, Botanical Society of America, 1957. https://www.botany.org/PlantScienceBulletin/psb-1957-03-2.php  “New Guinea Campaign”, Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea_campaign  “Marie Taylor”, Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Tayl

Alternate Title: Changing Behavior Emma tells Emlyn about Martha Bernal, a clinical child psychologist and pioneer in the study of ethnic minority psychology.  Learn more about us and other women in science at our website www.stemfatalepodcast.com  Sources Main Story - Martha Bernal George, M. (2012). Profile of Martha Bernal.In A. Rutherford (Ed.), Psychology's Feminist Voices Multimedia Internet Archive. http://www.feministvoices.com/martha-bernal/ O'Connell, Agnes N & Russo, Nancy Felipe, 1943- (1988). Models of achievement: reflections of eminent women in psychology. Hillsdale, NJ Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. CDC page for “Behavior or Conduct Problems in Children” https://www.cdc.gov/childrensmentalhealth/behavior.html Vasquez, M.J.T. “Martha Bernal (1931-2001)”. The Feminist Psychologist, Newsletter of the Society for the Psychology of Women, Division 35 of the American Psychological Association, Volume 30, Number 1, Winter, 2003. https://www.apadivisions.org/division-35/about/heritage/martha

Alternate Title: Figuring It Out Emlyn tells Emma all about Katherine Johnson, the mathematician whose complex calculations of orbital mechanics were essential for sending astronauts safely into space. Learn more about us and other women in science at our website www.stemfatalepodcast.com    Sources Main Story - Katherine Johnson “Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician And An Inspiration For 'Hidden Figures,' Dies” by Russell Lewis, NPR: https://www.npr.org/2020/02/24/517784975/katherine-johnson-nasa-mathematician-and-an-inspiration-for-hidden-figures-dies  “Katherine Johnson” by Margot Lee Shetterly, Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00749-3  “The True Story of “Hidden Figures,” the Forgotten Women Who Helped Win the Space Race” by Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/forgotten-black-women-mathematicians-who-helped-win-wars-and-send-astronauts-space-180960393/  Shetterly ML. Hidden Figures : The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black W

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. “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

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.  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/B

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 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 o

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 

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.ho

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/ “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

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   Cover Image 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). do

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-Abr2016/2Monografia.pdf   Music “Mary Anning” by Artichoke   Cover Image http://www.100.unam.mx/pdf/ana-hoffmann-mendizabal.pdf

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&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. “Mari

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/