Stem Fatale Podcast

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)

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.

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!!  

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

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 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

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 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://

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 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

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 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

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. 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). htt

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.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-int

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 at 86.” Washington Post. 2017 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/mildred-dresselhaus-physicist-dubbed-queen-of-carbon-dies-at-86/2017/02/22/3355d3a2-f8a7-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html?noredirect=on Mildred Dresselhaus Autobiography for the Kavli Prize. http://kavliprize.org/sites/default/files/%25nid%25/autobiagraphies_attachments/Mildred_Dresselhaus_Biography_0.pdf Anderson, Mark. “Mildred Dresselhaus: The Queen of Carbon.” IEEE Spectrum. 2015. https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/prof

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/download "Frances Oldham Kelsey: Medical reviewer famous for averting a public health tragedy" : https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/virtual-exhibits-fda-history/frances-oldham-kelsey-medical-reviewer-famous-averting-public-health-tragedy "The Woman Who Stood Between America and a Generation of ‘Thalidomide Babies’" by Leila McNeill: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/woman-who-stood-between-america-and-epidemic-birth-defects-180963165/ Wikipedia article about Frances Oldham Kelsey: https://en.wikipedia.or

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?usp=sf_link   Sources Story 1 - Dr. Yvonne Barr The Cancer Virus: The story of Epstein-Barr Virus. D.H. Crawford, A. Richinson, and I. Johnnessen. 2014. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK Video of Dr. Yvonne Barr for 50th anniversary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MXFUHBRQjo  UK Cancer Research Institute, https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2014/03/26/50-years-of-epstein-barr-virus/  “Viral Causes of Lymphoma: The History of Epstein-Barr Virus and Human T-Lymphotropic Virus” by Daniel Esau, https://ww

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 & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA. https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/33963 Carnegie Science Staff Bio for Vera Rubin. http://dtm.carnegiescience.edu/people/vera-c-rubin Irion, R. (2002). The Bright Face behind the Dark Sides of Galaxies. Science, 295(5557), 960-961. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3076066  Overbye, Dennis (2016) “Vera Rubin, 88, Dies; Opened Doors in Astronomy, and for Women.” https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/27/s

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/rachel-carson American Chemical Society: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/rachel-carson-silent-spring.html Fire Ants Video: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:16-p-1402-2_Fire_Ants_on_Trial.webm Women who werk Jess Wade was awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire! https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/191453/imperial-academics-awarded-honours-queen/ Xinzhu Wei and Rasmus Nielsen find that mutations in the CCR5 gene that make some people resistant to HIV

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 1914, solved leprosy therapy riddle.” 2017. https://sop.washington.edu/uwsop-alumni-legend-alice-ball-class-of-1914-solved-leprosy-riddle/ Brewster, Carisa D. “How the Woman Who Found a Leprosy Treatment Was Almost Lost to History.” National Geographic. 2018. https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/alice-ball-leprosy-hansens-disease-hawaii-womens-history-science/   Women who werk Adriaense, J. E. C., Martin, J. S., Schiestl, M., Lamm, C. & Bugnyar, T. Negative emotional contagion and cognitive b

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-short-with-leslie-wilcox-isabella-aiona-abbott/ Stanford News, Isabella Abbott, world-renowned Stanford algae expert, dies at 91” https://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/december/izzie-abbott-obit-120710.html “Pioneering professor is first lady of limu” by Jennifer Crites http://www.hawaii.edu/malamalama/2010/10/isabella-abbott/ Isabella Aiona Abbott: 2001 Distinguished Economic Botanist: Interpreting Pre-Western Hawaiian Culture as an Ethnobotanist. (2002). Economic Botany, 56(1), 3-6. Retrieved from http://www.js

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, Alice. “Thank This World War II-Era Film Star for Your Wi-Fi.” Smithsonianmag.com. Aug. 4, 2019. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/thank-world-war-ii-era-film-star-your-wi-fi-180971584/ Schearer, Steven M.  Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr. Sept. 28, 2010. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=d4hLFzsNgKEC&oi=fnd&pg=PT4&dq=hedy+lamarr&ots=uZOGX1rctz&sig=kokzynKHFjilAy2HGANNJ9PphcQ#v=onepage&q&f=false Ouellette, Jennifer. Hop, Skip and a Jump: Re

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://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7500&tid=282&cid=23306 “Marie Tharp - Plate Techtonics Pioneer” by Hali Felt: https://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/27/6/pdf/i1052-5173-27-6-32.pdf “Marie Tharp, The Woman Who Discovered The Backbone Of Earth” by David Bressan, Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2018/07/30/hundreds-missing-and-many-feared-dead-after-laos-dam-collapse/#2d5f9e17f91b “How One Brilliant Woman Mapped the Secrets of the Ocean Floor | Short Film Showcase” by National Geographi

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 Project. https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/NASA_HQ/Herstory/EasleyAJ/easleyaj.htm “Annie Easley, Computer Scientist” by Anne K. Mills. 2014. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/annie-easley-computer-scientist “The Trailblazing Human Computer Who Represented a New Age of Working Women” By Belle Hutton. 2018. http://www.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/gallery/9695/annie-easley/4   Women who werk - Dr. Karen Uhlenbeck “Retired UT professor becomes first woman to win prestigious