We just wanted to let you know that we’ll be sharing our podcasting wisdom at a real, honest-to-goodness academic conference. We wrote a paper and everything. (Okay, Mumu wrote the paper.) Mumu and I are gathering our favorite audio moments and sharing our project at the 1st IEEE WIE Summit USA East next weekend. The conference […]
Author: Lindsay Claiborn
Picture of the day: Hubble Uncovering the Secrets of the Quintuplet Cluster
Credit: ESA/NASA Although this cluster of stars gained its name due to its five brightest stars, it is home to hundreds more. The huge number of massive young stars in the cluster is clearly captured in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The cluster is located close to the Arches Cluster and is just 100 […]
Read me: A look at Lindsay’s bookshelf
Not to be outdone by Mumu, I thought it might be fun to share the things that I’ve been reading. I like to try to mix in a few non-fiction books into my mostly fiction book list but sometimes, it’s just so hard to resist a good spy thriller. So, here we go: Just finished: […]
- Drones
- ...
A visit to Mumu’s lab at the University of Maryland
This past weekend I had the pleasure of sleeping on Mumu’s couch and eating her food while in town to go to a friend’s wedding. Besides the obligatory podcast planning and conspiring, I got to follow Mumu to her office and lab and see what she really does on a daily basis (besides messaging with […]
What does STEM really mean, anyway?
What does STEM really mean, anyway? Mumu and I keep trying to answer this question as we talk to more women and record more episodes. Directly translated, STEM is just an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, but it has so much weight in social conversations now and those four words leave out so […]
We were just talking about that … hotel robots
I don’t know how many times I have seen a news headline or a story and said: “I was just talking about that idea!” Well, here we go again. As you might have guessed, we record our podcast episodes a few weeks in advance and in one of our future episodes we go off tangent … […]
#TheDress: Love it or hate it – we’re talking science
OK, I admit it. We had the obligatory argument in the office over #TheDress. (I’m team #WhiteandGold) And here we are, four days later, still arguing over it. I don’t really care about the dress or most flash-in-the-pan social media events. But what I do care about is that for the last few days, all sorts […]
- Environment
- ...
Picture of the Day – Growing Deltas in Atchafalaya Bay
Nature produces some pretty impressive things all on its own. This image of deltas in Atchafalaya Bay is stunning in its colors and what it symbolizes. Here’s the backstory on this vibrant wetland from NASA/Earth Observatory: The delta plain of the Mississippi River is disappearing. The lobe-shaped arc of coastal land from the Chandeleur Islands in […]
The time has come …
… the Walrus said, “To talk of many things:” It’s a quote from a Lewis Carroll poem that keeps bouncing around my head as we gear up for this podcast. We’ve been working on the website, editing the audio and talking to some really interesting ladies and I’ve just been itching to actually have something to share. […]