STEMS AND LEAVES

a queer, brown MidWesterner and a rotating cast of co-host friends ponder life aka we all started in STEM adjacent career paths, got radicalized, and now we're all over north america being cute keep in touch at stemsandleaves.com

Episodes

Danceable Cities aka Research on urban dance phenomena in China

March 17, 2023 • 13 mins

This episode we chat about dance as a consideration in urban design. In China, millions of residents participate in urban dance as a way to enhance their health and foster social connection. These groups practice in parks and ‘waste spaces’ around cities, accompanied often by live music. However, this practice has run into some resistance from the central and city governments. Complaints of too much noise have forced cities t...

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Wild City Food aka A brief history of urban foraging

March 17, 2023 • 13 mins

This episode we discuss the practice of urban foraging. That act of harvesting wild grown food is a practice as old as humanity. From society’s earliest days, we have depended on the fruits, nuts, berries, and herbs we’ve found along the way to secure our food supply. Although, a recent surge in popularity of foraging in cities and a lasting legacy of racist and classist laws often prevent some groups from foraging in public ...

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2019 July | Interview w/ Shauna

March 17, 2023 • 40 mins

[From the archive] Another interview out of DC this week, my guest Shauna has worked as a freelance programmer for 9 years. She left neuroscience after a long reckoning with the uncertainty. Shauna found herself challenged by a big question: How do we quantify and understand the vast potential of human behavior with hard tools? Maybe we can’t. Or at least not in the ways we want to. Shauna and I discuss these interesting ...

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2019 August | Interview w/ Sujata Emani

March 17, 2023 • 49 mins

[From the archive] In this episode, Sujata Emani and I spend a good amount of time discussing women of massive determination and how we work everyday to emulate their example. Sujata also shares some insight into her identity as a caregiver for her grandmother; an identity that was chosen for her and certainly changed the trajectory of her life in her mid-twenties. Discussed in this episode: Beltway Science Podcast American ...

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2020 February | Appalachian Planning with Jason Pyles

March 12, 2023 • 70 mins

Planning in Appalachia, convincing a community that you’re not taking their jobs, and the future of autonomous vehicles in rural places. My guest this week, Jason Pyles, and I discuss all this in more in one of my favorite interviews yet. As a kick off to our discussions centered around Geography and Geographic Information Science, I turn to Jason for his expertise. Jason works for the Buckeye Hills Regional Council as one of...

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STEMS AND LEAVES

Episodes

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2019 July | Interview w/ Shauna

2019 August | Interview w/ Sujata Emani

2020 February | Appalachian Planning with Jason Pyles

Popular Podcasts

Danceable Cities aka Research on urban dance phenomena in China

Wild City Food aka A brief history of urban foraging