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The Silenced Women of STEM

You"ve heard of Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin, and maybe even Katherine Johnson...but what about all the other female scientists whose discoveries and contributions have been lost to history?Welcome to The Silenced Women of STEM, where we bring you stories about the forgotten, original Women in STEM.

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Episode 22: Ruby Scott Payne - Milking the Mappy Way

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2025/11/05

You're familiar with the idea of a stressed, unpaid intern running around with a million things to do, of course to include grabbing the boss's lunch and fancy coffee order? Okay, now imagine that, but in the 1940s. You’re literally inventing a whole new kind of astronomy, working on secret radar systems during World War II, and everyone’s like, “Oh, sorry, can you file these papers real quick?”, “Can u grab me a coffee?”Today, we’re talking about Ruby Payne Scott, a physicist who helped invent

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20:36

Episode 21: Sylvia Earle - The Sturgeon General

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2025/10/30

Imagine diving to the bottom of the ocean while pregnant. Dude, I feel like when I am pregnant, I won’t be able to even move or do anything. But today’s woman in STEM was literally on the ocean floor while

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43:52

Episode 20: Lise Meitner - Splitting Atoms and...

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2025/10/24

Imagine going to work or school or whatever, and that's just normal. Men's bathrooms are everywhere, but you have to walk across the street at the very least to go to the BATHROOM. Now imagine trying to do groundbreaking research and dealing with that. Well, that's what Lise Meitner had to do when she was discovering Nuclear Fission.Sourceshttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Lise-Meitnerhttps://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/lise-meitner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner

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29:58

Episode 19: Marie Stopes - From Paleobotanist to...

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2025/10/21

So we carved Pumpkins this weekend in celebration of fall, October, and all things spooky season. And you will never guess what Disha carved on her pumpkin.It was a uterus…because there’s nothing scarier than being a woman. Well, that started me thinking about Women’s health, which led me to today’s Silenced Woman of STEM, a paleobotanist turned women’s health

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27:28

Episode 18: Mary Ward - A Girl's Best Friend is Her...

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2025/10/09

Today’s Silenced Woman of STEM not only spent hours creating beautiful and scientifically accurate illustrations of the microscopic world, but she was also a self-taught naturalist, an acclaimed author, and an astronomer in a time when women were mostly banned from professional science. This is the story of Mary Ward. She published a significant amount of work, all while raising eight children. She also holds the unfortunate, morbid distinction of being the first person in the world known to have

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36:54

Holiday Episode: Durga Puja & Navratri

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2025/10/01

We will be taking a week break from SWOS to celebrate Durga Puja! Learn a bit about Hinduism and Bengali culture in this very speacial episode about Durga Puja!

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Episode 16: Rita Levi - Montalcini - Rats in Rio,...

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2025/09/25

Rita Levi - Montalcini created an entire laboratory in her bedroom when she was banned from her lab, she discovered a protein that changed how neuroscience is done, and won a noble prize all after surviving World War II. This is her story.Sources:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10014200/https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11490299/https://www.nobelprize.org/stories/women-who-changed-science/rita-levi-montalcini/https://civilrights.ku.edu/rita-levi-montalcini-md

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23:49

Episode 15: Flossie Wong-Stahl - The Woman who...

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2025/09/19

Imagine moving to a different country by yourself at 18, getting a PhD by 26, and then decrypting the genome of one of the scariest viruses in the US at the time.Flossie Wong-Staal was a pioneering molecular biologist and virologist whose work reshaped our understanding of HIV and AIDS. Born in China and later making her mark in the United States, Wong-Staal became the first scientist to clone HIV and map its genes, a breakthrough that opened the door to blood tests and lifesaving treatments. Beyond

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23:27

Episode 14 - Eunice Foot: "One small Foote for...

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2025/09/03

Do you know who discovered climate change?Most people would say John Tyndall, but that wouldn’t exactly be true. The actual first discoverer was a woman. But what's crazy is that she was almost completely erased from history. This is the story of Eunice Foote.Sourceshttps://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/happy-200th-birthday-eunice-foote-hidden-climate-science-pioneer https://www.aps.org/apsnews/2023/07/carbon-dioxide-atmosphere-eunice-foote

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Episode 13 - Hypatia: Brains, Beauty, and Math

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2025/08/27

Hypatia, an ancient Roman philosopher, was literally the smartest woman of her time, and people knew it. She was, in fact, so smart that she literally became a threat to Christianity… This is the story of Hypatia, the first female mathematician

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Episode 12 - Hedy Lemarr: "Mother Wifi"

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2025/08/20

What do the most ravishingly beautiful actresses of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a secure radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes during WWII.This is the story of Hollywood film star and inventor, Hedy

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Episode 11 - Mary Edwards Walker: "Is it a man? Is it...

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2025/08/13

You’ve seen quinceañera dresses, right? Imagine having to perform surgery in that. Dr. Mary Edwards Walker thought the same thing. Mary was one of the most progressive women of her time, who became a surgeon and refused to wear dresses. This story is kinda insane, so buckle

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Episode 10 - Cecilia Gaposchkin: "Stars shine bright,...

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2025/08/08

Sourceshttps://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/cecilia-payne-gaposchkin-1900-1979 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-century-ago-pioneering-astrophysicist-cecilia-payne-gaposchkin-showed-us-what-stars-are-made-of-180986193/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cecilia-Payne-Gaposchkin https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/cosmic-horizons-book/cecilia-payne-profile

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Episode 9 - Janaki Ammal: "Woman Saves Forest with...

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2025/07/23

Have you ever thought, hmm my sugar needs to be sweeter? Well, India did. They enlisted the help of Janaki Ammal, an Indian Botanist sweetened sugar, saved a forest, and traveled the world in search of knowledge. This is her

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Episode 8 - Dorothy Hodgkins: "Crystals and Chemistry"

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2025/07/16

Imagine waking up every morning with joints so swollen and painful that even buttoning a shirt feels impossible, yet you still choose to spend your day hunched over delicate instruments, determined to uncover mysteries in chemistry. This was the world of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, a woman who refused to be defined by pain or limited by the expectations of her time.References:https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1964/hodgkin/biographical/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dorothy-Hodgkin

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Episode 7 - Jeanne Villepreux-Power: "Alien or...

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2025/07/09

What do royal wedding gowns, octopuses that look like aliens, and the invention of the aquarium have in common? One woman: Jeanne Villepreux-Power. Today, we’re diving into the story of a self-taught scientist who defied the odds, turned her home into a marine lab, and changed the way we study life in the

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Episode 6 - Valentina Tereshkova: "Space Propaganda...

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2025/07/02

It's 1963. You're 26 years old. You’ve left school at 16 to work in a textile factory. On weekends, you sneak off to jump out of airplanes, perhaps as an escape from day to day life. Suddenly, out of 400 candidates, you are chosen to become the first woman in space. You’re launched into orbit alone, riding in a spacecraft with settings so wrong, if you hadn’t caught the mistake, you would have drifted endlessly into the void. You fix it. You stay calm. You orbit the Earth 48 times. And when you

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Episode 5 - Nettie Stevens: "Gender Reveal Party:...

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2025/06/25

Have you heard about how Henry the VIII of England and his six wives? There’s like a whole musical about it now called SIX. Well Henry being the king that he was kept getting rid of his wives for various reasons, a large one being that his wives were not giving him male children. Well, the joke’s on Henry because we now know that sperm which is produced by men holds the key for sex determination aka it was lowkey Henry’s fault for not having sons. And you know who found out that men are the ones who

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Episode 4 - Alice Ball: "L is for Leprosy"

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2025/06/18

6 years. What can you do in just 6 years? Could you change the world in 6 years? Probably not. But you know who did. Alice Ball. From graduating high school to her death, Alice Ball invented a technique in just 6 years that would change the

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Episode 3 - Frances Glessner Lee: "Grandma knows her...

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2025/06/11

Imagine your best friend gets murdered. You call the cops, expecting a team equipped with gloves, evidence bags, testing kits, all of that. Instead, they trample through the house, accidentally ruining all the evidence that could have led them directly to your friend's killer. While this would cause outrage in today’s society, this was normal in the 1800s. Investigators were not investigating back then (they didn't even have proper training). There was this one grandma who had enough. She decided

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