Episode Four: Ladies of the Lakes (water, waves, and women)

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The sea merges myth and science – both a source of deep fear (and thus myth) and massive rewards (and thus science). In SF the oceans can be a space of imagined futures, a frontier, and a dangerous yet bountiful environment. We noticed a trend in the women directed movies we have been watching that focus around the theme of the sea and water, so this episode explores the sea in women made SF and the mythic connection between science, the sea, and female experiences.

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Intro/Outro music: Inspire Glitches (2017) by Yuriy Shishlov (CC-BY-NC-SA)

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MENTIONS

• The festival (wordy!): British Society for the History of Science’s Global Digital History of Science Festival (6th-10th July) #HistSciFest
  @BSHSNews
• Évolution (Hadžihalilović, 2015)
• Welcome II the Terrordome (Onwurah, 1993)
• Tank Girl (Talalay, 1995)
• Sea Fever (Hardiman, 2020)
• Deep Impact (Leder, 1998)
• Lords of the Deep (Fisher, 1989)
• The myth of Niamh Cinn-Óir (Golden-haired Niamh) –  the story Amy failed to explain
• Jules Verne  (1872), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: A World Tour Underwater
• Helen M. Rozwadowski @OceanHistories
• Helen M. Rozwadowski (2012) Arthur C. Clarke and the Limitations of the Ocean as a Frontier in Environmental History
• Antony Adler (2013), The Deep Range and The Ocean Frontier
• Sam Robinson @SamHistSci
• Katie Heffner @scifemmefans
• Arthur C. Clarke Archives at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
• Science Twitter blew up over this seemingly innocuous tweet:

C. elegans. They wiggle forward. They wiggle backwards. And occasionally they fuck themselves. That’s it. https://t.co/wYyXXViciJ

— Michael Eisen (@mbeisen) July 19, 2020