Episode 9: Dames Mathematica

Ada Lovelace and Emmy Noether - Dames of Mathematics

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Further Reading:
Ada Lovelace
"Ada: The Enchantress of Numbers" by Betty Toole (2010)
"The Calculating Passion of Ada Byron" by Joan Baum (1986)
"Ada, Countess of Lovelace, Byron's only Legitimate Daughter" by Doris Langley Moore (1977)
"Ada: A Life and Legacy" by Dorothy Stein (1985)
Sketch of the Analytical Engine by L. Menebrea. Notes by Ada Lovelace. (1843)
Great comic on Hark a Vagrant
Unbelievably thorough historiography of Ada Lovelace on Victorian Geek, invaluable resource on who said what when about Ada's much-contended legacy.
An Archetypal Bad Death: The Case of Ada Lovelace from Death in the Victorian Family by Patricia Jailand (2000)


Emmy Noether
"Modern Mathematicians" by Harry Henderson. (1996).
"The Mother of Modern Algebra" by M.B.W Tent (2008).
Great video lecture with Ransom Stephens:


Music: "Don't Make me Prove it" - Veruca Salt

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to Joan Jett: By rock and roll, we mean Madonna, sorry, hun.

Interesting item on Salon decrying Joan Jett not getting into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Ha, my favorite line in here comparing Joan Jett to  Guns N Roses "Still tours constantly not as a pathetic parody of her old self"

Episode 8: Dames of Philosophy

Simone de Beauvoir and Hannah Arendt: Logical ladies possessing giant intellects.
Forget the teachings which say that women are solely emotional creatures, incapable of sophisticated reasoning. The fact is that females have repeatedly proved throughout history that they're just as logical as their male counterparts. Listen up.

Note: Apologies on the delay, we had some sound quality/technical issues while recording.

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Further Reading:
Simone de Beauvoir:
"A Dangerous Liaison: A Biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre" by Carole Seymour-Jones (2008). The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc., New York. (2009)
"The Second Sex." (1949) translated by H M Parshley, Penguin (1972); published by Jonathan Cape in 1953.
"Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter." by Simone de Beauvoir
"The Prime of Life."  By Simone de Beauvoir
"Philosophy as Passion" by Simone de Beauvoir
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Simone de Beauvoir 
Hannah Arendt:
Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
Men in Dark Times by Hannah Arendt
Reflections on Violence by Hannah Arendt
Reflections on Little Rock by Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger by Elzbieta Ettinger
Fembio on Hannah Arendt
Arendt's Judgment by Mark Greif, Dissent Magazine
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Hannah Arendt
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Hannah Arendt

Music: Beethoven Kreutzer Sonata

*Pictures done up by LP*
Thanks to Sasha for audio help.