STEM Fatale Podcast

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Women in STEM history, with science and laughter.

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STEM Fatale Podcast tells the stories of women across STEM history. The show balances biographical narrative with casual side talk, from Marie Maynard Daly's biochemistry to Annie Dodge Wauneka's tuberculosis work and Deborah S. Jin's ultracold physics.

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About STEM Fatale Podcast

STEM Fatale Podcast is a women-in-science history show with a conversational feel. Dr. Emlyn Gremlin and Dr. Emma Dilemma introduce each subject through biography, then keep the explanation loose enough for questions, jokes, and midstream clarifications. The show is grounded in people first. Marie Maynard Daly's work appears through biochemistry, DNA, heart disease research, and the institutions around her career. Annie Dodge Wauneka's story stretches across public health activism, tuberculosis work, the Navajo reservation, interpreting, travel, and one unusually memorable confrontation. Deborah S. Jin brings the show into difficult physics, where the hosts slow down around Fermi gases, ultracold temperatures, magnetic trapping, and the limits of easy translation. Other names point to a wide STEM map: Beatrice 'Tilly' Shilling in aeronautical engineering, Katia Krafft in volcanology, and Ynes Mexia in botany. The science is not treated as decorative background. It is part of the story. Still, the tone stays friendly and slightly chaotic, with seasonal jokes, recording mishaps, pets, broken microphones, and the occasional aside about where someone is recording. That informality matters because the hosts often let the hard parts stay hard. A paper can be quoted, puzzled over, and restated in plainer terms without pretending the material is simple. The show also keeps a memory of its own archive through the 24 Women of STEM-mas trivia format. Those episodes turn past subjects into a playful review of cryptanalysts, engineers, botanists, and other figures the hosts have covered before. STEM Fatale Podcast works best as a bridge between admiration and explanation. It does not flatten its subjects into inspirational blurbs. It follows careers through institutions, discoveries, public health problems, political settings, and the personal details that the available sources allow. The show suits a listener who wants women in STEM history told with enough technical texture to feel substantive and enough banter to keep the room warm. Its distinguishing pleasure is the way expertise and uncertainty sit together. The hosts know enough to teach, but they also make room for the honest sentence: this is complicated, so here is the best translation.

Made for: Suits a listener who wants women in science history presented through biography, research context, and informal co-host exchange. It also fits someone who likes technical ideas translated aloud without losing the messiness of the original science.

What sets it apart: The show stands out by pairing STEM biography with visible problem-solving: the hosts explain, question, revise, and laugh their way through the material. Its archive also feeds back on itself through trivia episodes that revisit earlier women and details.

In their own words

Emma and Emlyn teach each other about historic (and current) women in STEM and remind each other about things they DEF should know.

women in science historybiochemistry and heart diseasepublic health activismultracold physicsaeronautical engineeringvolcanologybotanyscience-history trivia

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  1. 1

    Bonus: Lost Women of Science Season 2 Trailer

    Mar 31, 2022·3m
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    Episode 083 - Marie Maynard Daly | Biochemist

    Hidden gem

    Stem Fatale profiles Marie Maynard Daly, born in Corona, Queens on April 16, 1921, and follows her through Hunter College High School, Queens College, NYU, and Columbia.

    Feb 28, 2022·47m·3 clips
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    Episode 082 - Annie Dodge Wauneka Part 2 | Public Health Activist

    Hidden gem

    STEM Fatale revisits Annie Wanecka's work on the Navajo reservation, including involuntary tuberculosis confinement, a medical English-to-Navajo dictionary, and a baby contest that doubled as health screening.

    Jan 31, 2022·1h 17m·5 clips
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    Episode 081 - The 24 Women of STEM-mas - Trivia #4

    Hidden gem

    STEM Fatale Podcast's "Episode 081 - The 24 Women of STEM-mas - Trivia #4" turns 24 women-in-science profiles into a holiday quiz.

    Dec 23, 2021·46m·3 clips
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    Episode 080 - Annie Dodge Wauneka Part 1 | Public Health Activist

    Hidden gem

    STEM Fatale profiles Annie Dodge Wauneka, the Navajo activist and health educator whose early life moved from a hogan to school epidemics and tribal politics.

    Dec 1, 2021·1h 2m·5 clips
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    Episode 079 - Deborah S. Jin | Physicist

    Hidden gem

    Stem Fatale Episode 079 follows physicist Deborah S.

    Oct 25, 2021·52m·3 clips
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    Episode 078 - Bessie Blount Griffin | Inventor, Physical Therapist, and Forensic Scientist

    Sep 20, 2021·49m
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    Episode 077 - Edna Paisano | Statistician & Sociologist

    May 26, 2021·58m
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    Episode 076 - Inez Whipple Wilder | Herpetologist & Anatomist

    May 3, 2021·49m
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    Episode 075 - Marietta Blau | Physicist

    Apr 12, 2021·1h 10m
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    Episode 074 - Janaki Ammal | Cytologist & Botanist

    Mar 29, 2021·43m
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    Short Stories 5 - Jimena Quirós | Oceanographer

    Mar 8, 2021·13m
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    Short Stories 4 - Geraldine Pittman Woods | Neuroembryologist

    Feb 22, 2021·17m
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    Episode 073 - Jessie Isabelle Price | Bacteriologist

    Feb 8, 2021·43m
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    Episode 072 - Helia Bravo Hollis | Botanist

    Jan 25, 2021·49m
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    Episode 071 - Hertha Aryton | Engineer & Inventor

    Jan 4, 2021·1h 2m
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    Episode 070 - The 24 Women of STEM-mas - Trivia #3

    Dec 15, 2020·57m
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    Episode 069 - Nettie Maria Stevens | Geneticist

    Nov 30, 2020·1h 7m
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    Episode 068 - Susan La Flesche Picotte | Physician

    Nov 10, 2020·1h 8m
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    Episode 067 - Frances Glessner Lee | Forensic Scientist

    Oct 26, 2020·57m
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    Episode 066 - Joan Clarke | Cryptanalyst & Numismatist

    Oct 5, 2020·50m
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    Episode 065 - Xia Peisu | Computer Scientist

    Sep 21, 2020·48m
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    Episode 064 - Maryam Mirzakhani | Mathematician

    Sep 8, 2020·1h 21m
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    Episode 063 - Wangari Muta Maathai | Environmentalist

    Aug 24, 2020·55m
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    Episode 062 - Bertha Parker | Archeologist & Anthropologist

    Aug 12, 2020·47m
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    Episode 061 - Kono Yasui | Cytologist

    Jul 27, 2020·56m
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    Episode 060 - Marie Clark Taylor | Botanist

    Jul 13, 2020·44m
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    Episode 059 - Martha Bernal | Psychologist

    Jun 29, 2020·55m
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    Episode 058 - Katherine Johnson | Mathematician

    Jun 15, 2020·1h
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    Episode 057 - Eva Crane | Entomologist & Nuclear Physicist

    May 26, 2020·50m
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    Episode 056 - Tilly Edinger | Paleoneurologist

    May 12, 2020·1h 10m
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    Episode 055 - Pearl Kendrick/Grace Eldering/Loney Clinton Gordon | Vaccine Creators & Public Health Scientists

    Apr 27, 2020·52m
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    Episode 054 - Alice Hamilton | Industrial Toxicologist & Doctor

    Apr 13, 2020·49m
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    Episode 053 - Rebecca Lee Crumpler | Doctor

    Mar 30, 2020·34m
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    Episode 052 - Clara Barton | Nurse

    Mar 16, 2020·54m
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    Short Stories 3 - June Almeida | Virologist

    Mar 2, 2020·12m
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    Short Stories 2 -Anita Hoffmann | Acarologist

    Feb 17, 2020·12m
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    Episode 051 - Marie Curie | Chemist and Physicist (Part 2)

    Feb 3, 2020·49m
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    Episode 050 - Marie Curie | Chemist and Physicist (Part 1)

    Jan 21, 2020·58m
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    Episode 049 - 24 Women of STEM-mas Trivia #2

    Dec 16, 2019·44m
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    Episode 048 - Beatrix Potter | Mycologist and Writer

    Dec 4, 2019·27m
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    Episode 047 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas | Conservationist

    Nov 18, 2019·54m
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    Episode 046 - Yamei Kin | Doctor

    Nov 4, 2019·48m
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    Episode 045 - Mary the Jewess | Alchemist

    Oct 21, 2019·42m
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    Episode 044 - Beatrice 'Tilly' Shilling | Aeronautical Engineer

    Two hosts teach each other about historic and current women in STEM fields.

    Oct 7, 2019·39m
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    Episode 043 - Katia Krafft | Volcanologist

    Two hosts discuss historic and current women in STEM, starting with a personal anecdote about volcanoes in Hawaii.

    Sep 23, 2019·49m
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    Episode 042 -Ynes Mexia | Botanist

    Two hosts teach each other about historic and current women in STEM fields.

    Sep 9, 2019·31m
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    Episode 041 - Margaret Dayhoff | Bioinformatician

    Two co-hosts teach each other about historic and current women in STEM, starting with a discussion about GenBank.

    Aug 26, 2019·40m