To celebrate Women's History Month 2021, we selected 21 podcast episodes that feature inspirational women in STEM and can be shared with girls and young women. You’ll meet a molecular biologist who also makes clothing with colorful cell art, hear a fun interview with the 15-year-old female inventor who was Time’s 2020 Kid of the Year, and be able to play a trivia game that highlights dozens of historic STEM contributions by women, and more.
By day, postdoctoral researcher Beata Mierzwa, PhD, studies cellular division. By night, she makes clothing — dresses, pants, shoes, backpacks — covered in colorful dividing cells. In this episode, sh...Show More
Today we have a special episode featuring an old friend of ours -- scientist and inventor Gitanjali Rao. Time Magazine recently named her the first-ever Kid of the Year! We first met Gitanjali back i...Show More
As we wrap up National Women’s Month, we wanted to give a shout out to women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics or STEM for short. Far too often, their historic contributions aren’t ...Show More
For Earth Day, we’re discovering how the tiny, adorable pika is helping scientists study climate change! Temperatures in their mountain habitat are getting warmer, and rain and snow isn’t as predictab...Show More
"I wanted to be a priest. They said, 'Girls don't do that.' I wanted to be captain of the national cricket team. They said, 'Girls don't do that.' I wanted to be a scientist. They said, 'Girls don't d...Show More
Hey there, sports fans! We’re about to hit this episode out of the park—and learn all about the science behind some of your favorite sports! Dr. Monica Rho, Head Physician for the U.S. Women’s Nationa...Show More
Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant is a large carnivore ecologist with the American Museum of Natural History. She is a pioneer among black women who have attained a Ph.D in her field, where she studies the American ...Show More
Do you love fossils and dinosaurs? Let us introduce you to Myria Perez, a paleontology-obsessed kid who grew up to get her dream job! Myria is a 24 year old fossil preparator, which means she prepares...Show More
KTW 23| Water Conservation Through Better Communication with Dr. Jennifer Adler
Kiss That World Podcast | Sustainability + Conservation + Environmentalism
1:01:29 | Jun 12th, 2018
Dr. Jennifer Adler grew up loving the ocean. She lived in Massachusetts and took up competitive sailing when she was little. Her parents also got her a pink snorkeling mask, which was a staple of her ...Show More
NASA engineer Dajae Williams is using hip hop to make math and science more accessible and memorable for young people.
Meet Debbie Sterling, the Founder and CEO of GoldieBlox and a woman disrupting the pink aisle.For many women, our childhood toys consisted of Barbies, kitchen sets, and other variations of princess ob...Show More
What happens when a baby falcon meets a balloon telescope in an old Wild West town? An astrophysics animal adventure, of course! Erika Hamden is an astrophysicist who’s attempting to launch a space ba...Show More
Dr. Ana Maria Porras is a biomedical engineer studying the human gut microbiome and developing biomaterials-based models of disease, to see how good and bad microorganisms regulate our health. She's a...Show More
If a bat handed you a margarita, would you take it? How about $3.7 billion?Controlling agricultural pests and promoting the health of agave plants—used to make tequila—are just a couple of the superhe...Show More
Oct. 18th is Anti-Slavery day. Listen as Davina Durgana, an award-winning international human rights statistician, shares how her first mission trip to El Salvador exposed her to the reality of modern...Show More
Would you fly to the top of a volcano that’s about to erupt at any moment? Volcanologist Helena Buurman did, and survived to tell the tale! In 2008, Helena was monitoring Mount Redoubt in Alaska, when...Show More
In our first episode, we’re peeling back the layers on pandemics. How have we overcome global diseases in the past? How can learning about neuroscience help us reduce anxiety? You’ll meet nine-year-ol...Show More
There’s lots to learn in this episode including what makes neutrinos (the building blocks of the universe) so important and so elusive! Also, what you can see in a particle vacuum- they pop in and ...Show More
From singing opera to embracing technology and diving into drones, meet Dr. Magan Lewis, a STEM loving FarmHer. Join in the discussion about how she is helping implement new technology to agriculture ...Show More
Karina Popovich is a first year student at Cornell, but that barely defines her, as she’s also a serial entrepreneur (read, problem solver). She is a self-defined maker who is currently bringing toget...Show More
How do you become an astronaut? That’s what Tumble listener Margaret wants to know. We go straight to the source to get an answer: A NASA astronaut! Dr. Serena Auñon-Chancellor shares her journey to o...Show More