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STEAMpunks is back and this time we're cooler, chiller, more broken bones, less self-imposed strict rules - and better than ever! . . . Join us as we learn about modern-day STEAMpunk Lynn Conway - computer scientist, electrical engineer, and trans activist. . . . Check out more awesome podcasts like ours on the Pocket Podcast Network! . . . Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook @steampunkspod, and follow Emily on Twitter @shockn_awesome . . . Huge thanks to the band The Crypts for the use of their song Marie Curie (which is licensed under CC BY 4.0) for our intro and outro.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steampunks/support

This month we welcome Britty and Jessica from Colt Classics - PPN's newest show in which an equestrian and a filmmaker create the new best worst horse movie.  They're telling us all about Dr. M. Phyllis Lose - the first female equine veterinarian in the United States! . . . Like what you hear? Subscribe to Colt Classics here!  You can also follow them on twitter @ColtClassicsPPN. . . . Check out more awesome podcasts like ours on the Pocket Podcast Network! . . . Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook @steampunkspod, and follow Emily on Twitter @shockn_awesome . . . Huge thanks to the band The Crypts for the use of their song Marie Curie (which is licensed under CC BY 4.0) for our intro and outro.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steampunks/support

This month we're happy to welcome JD and Alex from the podcast Sorted to help us place some of our favorite STEAMpunks into Hogwarts Houses! . . . We have also made a folding@home team to help scientists fight diseases, specifically including Covid-19. So help us in the fight by downloading the program and joining our team (264901)! ... Check out more awesome podcasts like ours on the Pocket Podcast Network! . . . Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook @steampunkspod, and follow Emily on Twitter @shockn_awesome . . . Huge thanks to the band The Crypts for the use of their song Marie Curie (which is licensed under CC BY 4.0) for our intro and outro.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steampunks/support

Women make up only 18% of students in computer science majors and a big reason for that is people thinking computer science has never been for women.  Well to that we say NOPE!  Meet Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, the first person in the USA to earn a doctorate in computer science. . . . Check out more awesome podcasts like ours on the Pocket Podcast Network! . . . Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook @steampunkspod, and follow Emily on Twitter @shockn_awesome . . . Huge thanks to the band The Crypts for the use of their song Marie Curie (which is licensed under CC BY 4.0) for our intro and outro.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steampunks/support

A computer crash, some lost files, and a couple of re-records later.... the audio on this one is still pretty rough. We'll be back in shape next episode, don't you worry! ... Virginia Apgar is known most for her work with newborns - but there is so much more to her! Learn about it all here on STEAMpunks. . . . Check out more awesome podcasts like ours on the Pocket Podcast Network! . . . Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook @steampunkspod, and follow Emily on Twitter @shockn_awesome . . . Huge thanks to the band The Crypts for the use of their song Marie Curie (which is licensed under CC BY 4.0) for our intro and outro.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steampunks/support

Transcript link: http://bit.ly/37Llskj ... It's Show Swap Week! Join John and Bethany, the hosts of Home Viewing, and learn about Henrietta Lacks - an extremely important, if completely involuntary, contributor to medical science. ... Further Reading: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot . . . Learn more about Home Viewing here! . . . Check out more awesome podcasts like ours on the Pocket Podcast Network! . . . Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook @steampunkspod, and follow Emily on Twitter @shockn_awesome . . . Huge thanks to the band The Crypts for the use of their song Marie Curie (which is licensed under CC BY 4.0) for our intro and outro.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steampunks/support

Transcript link: http://bit.ly/330d11e ... CW: Auto accident and descriptions of recovery, miscarriage, infidelity, suicide. ... Learn about Frida Kahlo, Mexico's most prolific female artist. ... Further Viewing: PBS Documentary: The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo . . . Check out more awesome podcasts like ours on the Pocket Podcast Network! . . . Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook @steampunkspod, and follow Emily on Twitter @shockn_awesome . . . Huge thanks to the band The Crypts for the use of their song Marie Curie (which is licensed under CC BY 4.0) for our intro and outro.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steampunks/support

Transcript link: http://bit.ly/2QiLtkV ... Learn about Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, a person with several "The First Woman to"s under her belt and the first person to discover that the sun has a WHOLE LOT of hydrogen! ... Further Reading: Out of the Shadows: Contributions of Twentieth-Century Women to Physics edited by Nina Byers and Gary Williams Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979 (Lives of Women in Science) edited by Pnina Abir-Am and Dorinda Outram . . . Check out more awesome podcasts like ours on the Pocket Podcast Network! . . . Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook @steampunkspod, and follow Emily on Twitter @shockn_awesome . . . Huge thanks to the band The Crypts for the use of their song Marie Curie (which is licensed under CC BY 4.0) for our intro and outro.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steampunks/support

Emily tests Zach to see if he's really been paying attention - and he does great! ... Check out more awesome podcasts like ours on the Pocket Podcast Network! . . . Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook @steampunkspod, and follow Emily on Twitter @shockn_awesome . . . Huge thanks to the band The Crypts for the use of their song Marie Curie (which is licensed under CC BY 4.0) for our intro and outro.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steampunks/support

We're back from some crazy life stuff!  Learn about Hildegard of Bingen, one of the Middle Age's most prolific composers (and a scientist to boot!) ... Further Reading: Hildegard of Bingen: the Woman of her Age by Fiona Maddocks . . . Check out more awesome podcasts like ours on the Pocket Podcast Network! . . . Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook @steampunkspod, and follow Emily on Twitter @shockn_awesome . . . Huge thanks to the band The Crypts for the use of their song Marie Curie (which is licensed under CC BY 4.0) for our intro and outro.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steampunks/support

Get ready for this one, y'all, it's basically Emily and Zach geeking out over word painting and voice leading for half an hour. Learn about Clara Schumann, pianist and composer extaordinaire, on this weeks episode of STEAMpunks! ... Further Reading: Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman by Nancy B. Reich 12 Gedichte aus Friedrich Rückerts "Liebesfrühling", Op. 37: No. 2, Er ist gekommen in Sturm und Regen (Leidenschaftlich - Ruhig) performed by Edda Moser and Erik Werba . . . Check out more awesome podcasts like ours on the Pocket Podcast Network! . . . Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook @steampunkspod, and follow Emily on Twitter @shockn_awesome . . . Huge thanks to the band The Crypts for the use of their song Marie Curie (which is licensed under CC BY 4.0) for our intro and outro.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steampunks/support

We have returned to full power! And on that note. . . . She sells seashells on the sea shore. The shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure. For if she sells seashells on the seashore then I'm sure she sells seashore shells! ... Learn all about Mary Anning, the geologist responsible for the majority of fossil finds in the early days of geology and paleontology! ... Further Reading: Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the Primeval Monsters by Patricia Pierce Remarkable Creatures (novel) by Tracy Chevalier She Sells Seashells performed by Billy Murray . . . Check out more awesome podcasts like ours on the Pocket Podcast Network! . . . Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook @steampunkspod, and follow Emily on Twitter @shockn_awesome . . . Huge thanks to the band The Crypts for the use of their song Marie Curie (which is licensed under CC BY 4.0) for our intro and outro.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steampunks/support

Uh oh, we done goofed.  We ran out of time to record full episodes while preparing for our trip, but we're here with some fun facts about future STEAMpunks to tide you over!   We'll be back with another minisode on the 17th, and a full and awesome episode about Mary Anning on the 31st.  Thanks for sticking with us :)  . . .  Check out more awesome podcasts like ours on the Pocket Podcast Network!  . . .  Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook @steampunkspod, and follow Emily on Twitter @shockn_awesome  . . . Huge thanks to the band The Crypts for the use of their song Marie Curie (which is licensed under CC BY 4.0) for our intro and outro.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steampunks/support

Uh oh, we done goofed.  We ran out of time to record full episodes while preparing for our trip, but we're here with some fun facts about future STEAMpunks to tide you over!   We'll be back with another minisode on the 17th, and a full and awesome episode about Mary Anning on the 31st.  Thanks for sticking with us :)  . . .  Check out more awesome podcasts like ours on the Pocket Podcast Network!  . . .  Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook @steampunkspod, and follow Emily on Twitter @shockn_awesome  . . . Huge thanks to the band The Crypts for the use of their song Marie Curie (which is licensed under CC BY 4.0) for our intro and outro.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steampunks/support

It's a double-whammy of celebrations this week!  For both the celebration of Pride Month (Sally was also the first LGBT person in space!) and the 36th anniversary of her historic space flight, join us as we learn more about Sally Ride - the first American woman in space. . . . Further Reading: Who Was Sally Ride by Megan Stine Trailblazers: Poems of Exploration by Bobbi Katz Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space . . . Check out more awesome podcasts like ours on the Pocket Podcast Network! . . . Huge thanks to the band The Crypts for the use of their song Marie Curie (which is licensed under CC BY 4.0) for our intro and outro.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steampunks/support

Happy Pride Month to all of our LGBTQ+ friends! To help celebrate, we're talking about somebody who would have one heck of a show to put on at a Pride event had they existed at the time. Learn about Julie d'Aubigny, Mademoiselle de Maupin - the sword fighting opera singer who loved men and women alike all across France! . . . Further Reading/Watching: Julie d'Aubigny - Duelist, Singer, Radical - Extra History Julie d'Aubigny: Princess of the Opera - Rejected Princesses . . . Check out more awesome podcasts like ours on the Pocket Podcast Network! . . . Huge thanks to the band The Crypts for the use of their song Marie Curie (which is licensed under CC BY 4.0) for our intro and outro.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steampunks/support

TW: a short description of simulated sex in a movie and cruel directing decisions from 6:34 to 7:03, please skip if you want or need to!  . . . Woah!  We're on a network now!  What the heck!  We are so excited to be a part of the Pocket Podcast Network - quality programming right to your pocket. This week is all about someone once dubbed "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" - who also invented the technology that allows wi-fi and bluetooth to even exist.  Meet Hedy Lamarr, actress and inventor, on this episode of STEAMpunks.  . . . Further Reading/Watching:  Extraordinary Women: Hedy Lamarr  Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film by Ruth Barton  Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Richard Rhodes  Hedy Lamarr by Colleen Cheslak - National Women's History Museum  . . . Huge thanks to the band The Crypts for the use of their song Marie Curie (which is licensed under CC BY 4.0) for our intro and outro.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steampunks/support

Meet the first two women to survive the Colorado River - and discover some new cacti along the way!  Botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter are the subject of our second episode, sponsored by the brilliant plantstagram @chubbyplantpeople!  Further Reading/Watching: University of Michigan Heritage Project: River Rat Grand Canyon Women: Lives Shaped by Landscape Chapter 9: Two Women, Three Boats, and a Plant Press Video - Down the Great River: Diary of a Cactus Hunter Video - Interview with Lois Jotter Cutter Part 1 Huge thanks to the band The Crypts for the use of their song Marie Curie (which is licensed under CC BY 4.0) for our intro and outro. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steampunks/support

Welcome to STEAMpunks! Join wife and husband Emily and Zach Shock as they explore the lives of women in science, technology, engineering, arts, and math throughout history! For the subject of our first episode, we chose Ada Lovelace - the first computer programmer.  And not just the first woman computer programmer - the first one.  Period.  Of any and all genders!  How did she accomplish this in 19th century London?  Listen to find out! Further reading: - Ada Lovelace: Computer Programmer and Mathmetician by Avery Elizabeth Hurt - Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs - Enchantress of Numbers: A Novel of Ada Lovelace by Jennifer Chiaverini Huge thanks to the band The Crypts for the use of their song Marie Curie (which is licensed under CC BY 4.0) for our intro and outro. *Note: Sorry about the audio - we promise it will be much better in episode 2, the first Wednesday of May 2019 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steampunks/support