Technical Tea: a podcast by women in STEM

Episode 3: Tech Vampires and Science Zombies!

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:00:00 -0400

We like to keep the humor(s) high around here: black bile and phglegm specifically. What form will the Zombiepocalypse take? Is it rabies (rabid whales, what?), prion disease (legit terrifying), or cordyceps (coming for the last of us)? Our listeners share their eponym experiences. Niki slaps on some anti-AI-slop stickers. Huyen is still an otaku (and a brimmed cap).

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Show Notes

▶ Intro

00:01:20 September office hours! | Technical Tea | Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/TechnicalTeaShow/posts/september-office-169999100

00:01:43 Executive Barista: Tom Merritt
https://www.tommerritt.com/

▶ Tech Vampires!

00:03:21 "Love and Pain" (Vampire) by Edvard Munch (1895) | Wikimedia Commons
Original held by the Munch Museum, Oslo
License: Public Domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edvard_Munch_-_Vampire_(1895)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

00:04:25 Powerline Maintenance Drones | DJI Enterprise
https://enterprise.dji.com/inspection/powerline-inspection

00:04:59 Autonomous Overhead Powerline Recharging for Uninterrupted Drone Operations
https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/publications/autonomous-overhead-powerline-recharging-for-uninterrupted-drone-/

00:05:03 "Autonomous Overhead Powerline Recharging for Uninterrupted Drone Operations - ICRA 2024" | Drone Infrastructure Inspection & Interaction Group
https://youtu.be/C-uekD6VTIQ

00:07:41 Bloodletting | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletting

00:08:03 Dr. Gerry Tolbert | Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/gtolbert/

00:08:14 Trepanning | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanning

00:08:23 Humorism | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humorism

00:08:27 Hippocrates | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocrates

00:08:30 Galen | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen

00:08:32 Marcus Aurelius | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius

00:08:34 The four 'humours': Our 2,500-year-old mania for personality types | BBC
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250915-the-ancient-origins-of-todays-personality-types

00:08:49 @emmanuellafont | Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/emmanuellafont

00:09:31 Phrenology | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology

00:11:09 Which Ninja Turtle Are You? Life's Most Important Question | After Hours | Cracked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtsmluPK7Ug&t=262s

00:13:20 Aristotle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle

00:14:32 François-Joseph-Victor Broussais
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Joseph-Victor_Broussais

00:15:02 Figure 31.—Instruments and technique of phlebotomy | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33102/images/fig31.jpg

00:15:29 The Project Gutenberg eBook of Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33102/pg33102-images.html
Figure 16.—Advertisement for phlebotomy and cupping instruments. | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33102/images/fig16.jpg

00:15:44 Phlebotomy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlebotomy

00:16:09 Fleam with three blades | Science Museum Group
https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co141078/fleam-with-three-blades

00:16:44 Lancets and flambes to let blood. | The Spring-Lancet, A “Bloodstain’d Faithful Friend!”
https://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/2014/07/24/the-spring-lancet-a-bloodstaind-faithful-friend/

00:17:32 Germ Theory | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease

00:18:35 Deep Cut: The Story of Spring Lancets and Medical Change | Spurlock Museum of World Cultures | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
https://www.spurlock.illinois.edu/blog/p/deep-cut-the/481

00:18:38 Figure 6.(left)—Spring lancet, 19th century. &Figure 7.(right)—Interior of spring lancet. | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33102/pg33102-images.html#Page_13

00:19:01 A bloody 19th-century health craze almost drove these creatures extinct | National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/leech-blood-health-craze-extinct

00:20:11 Hirudo Medicinalis | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirudo_medicinalis

00:21:53 Hiurdin | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirudin

00:22:14 Protease | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protease

00:23:25 Medicinal Leeches and Where to Find Them: The rise, fall, and resurrection of the humble leech by Jessica Martucci | Science History Institute Museum & Library
https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/medicinal-leeches-and-where-to-find-them/

00:24:59 Leech Mania | National Endowment for the Humanities
https://www.neh.gov/article/leech-mania

00:28:15 Resolution and Independence | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_and_Independence

00:28:36 Resolution and Independence by William Wordsworth | Storgy
https://storgy.com/poems/resolution-and-independence-william-wordsworth/

00:31:00 Louis Pasteur | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur

00:31:01 Robert Kloch | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Koch

00:31:09 "The history of bloodletting" by Gerry Greenstone, BCMJ, vol. 52, No. 1, January February 2010 | British Columbia Medical Journal
https://bcmj.org/premise/history-bloodletting

00:31:38 Dec. 14, 1799: The excruciating final hours of President George Washington by Dr. Howard Markel | PBS News
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/dec-14-1799-excruciating-final-hours-president-george-washington

00:32:33 Venous Congestion | 2010 Plastic Surgery Secrets Plus
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/nursing-and-health-professions/venous-congestion

00:32:59 Mechanical Leeches, London, England, 1850-1855 | Science Museum Group
https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co142294/mechanical-leech-london-england-1850-1855

00:33:23 Blood diagnostics modelled on leeches | ETH Zurich
https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2024/05/blood-diagnostics-modelled-on-leeches.html

00:33:55 Product Classification: Leeches, Medicinal | FDA
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfPCD/classification.cfm?ID=NRN

00:34:26 Novel device takes over where leeches leave off | EurekAlert
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/649033
"A mechanical leech (at left) developed by otolaryngology professor and surgeon Greg Hartig features a glass vacuum chamber with tubes for maintaining suction and irrigating of a patient's wound. At right in a lab beaker is a live leech traditionally used for medicinal purposes." by Jeff Miller
https://news.wisc.edu/newsphotos/images/mechanical_leech01.jpg

▶ Science Zombies!

00:37:01 Zombies as portrayed in the movie Night of the Living Dead | Wikimedia Commons
Still from the film "Night of the Living Dead" by George A. Romero (1968)
License: Public Domain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie#/media/File:Zombies_NightoftheLivingDead.jpg

00:37:49 Rabies in popular culture | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies_in_popular_culture

00:37:55 About Rabies | CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/about/index.html#cdc_disease_basics_symptoms-signs-and-symptoms

00:38:21 About Zoonotic Diseases | CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/one-health/about/about-zoonotic-diseases.html

00:38:39 Rabies | World Health Organization
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/rabies

00:39:01 Rabies Vaccine | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies_vaccine

00:39:44 Preventing Rabies from Rats | CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/prevention/bats.html

00:40:57 Rabies | Symptoms | Mayo Clinic
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/rabies/symptoms-causes/syc-20351821#symptoms

00:43:35 Nationwide Increase in Reported Human Rabies Exposures: Rabies Post-exposure Prophylaxis Administration | CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/han/php/notices/han00533.html

00:44:02 State public health labs step up as CDC pauses testing for various pathogens, including rabies, mpox | University of Minnesota
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/rabies/state-public-health-labs-step-cdc-pauses-testing-various-pathogens-including-rabies-mpox

00:44:23 Goats Petting Zoo Rabies
https://www.dph.ncdhhs.gov/blog/2026/08/29/ncdhhs-confirms-rabies-mobile-petting-zoo

00:45:23 Prion Diseases | Conditions and Diseases | Health | Johns Hopkins
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/prion-diseases

00:45:31 "Scrapie prions" (PrPSc (stained in red) revealed in a photomicrograph of scrapie-infected mouse neuronal cells) by NIAID (2011) | Wikimedia Commons
Original produced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) / CDC PHIL (ID# 18131)
License: Public Domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scrapie_prions.jpg#/media/File:Scrapie_prions.jpg

00:45:55 Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy | CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/mad-cow/php/animal-health/index.html

00:46:01 "Spongiform degeneration in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease" (Micrograph showing vacuoles that appear as holes in tissue sections, H&E stain) by Dr. Al Jenny (CDC) | Wikimedia Commons
Original produced by Dr. Al Jenny for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Public Health Image Library (PHIL)
License: Public Domain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmissible_spongiform_encephalopathy#/media/File:Spongiform_degeneration_in_Creutzfeldt-Jakob_disease.jpg

00:47:01 My Quest to Cure Prion Disease — Before It’s Too Late | Sonia Vallabh | TED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04PmEJaYKd0

00:47:11 Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt%E2%80%93Jakob_disease

00:47:43 Scrapies | USDA
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/sheep-goat/scrapie

00:47:45 Chronic Wasting Disease | USDA
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/cervid/chronic-wasting

00:48:00 Now health nuts are drinking deer blood to ‘stay young’, risking deadly zombie deer disease, warn experts | Focusing on Wildlife
https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/now-health-nuts-are-drinking-deer-blood-to-stay-young-risking-deadly-zombie-deer-disease-warn-experts/

00:49:11 Kuru, the First Human Prion Disease | Natural Library of Medicine
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6466359/

00:49:23 My friend got prion disease. We watched her forget who we are. | Chubbyemu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmuuin3AaVs

00:50:33 The Last of Us (video game) | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_Us_(video_game)

00:50:38 The Last of Us season 1 | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_Us_season_1

00:50:45 We Asked a Mycologist About The Last of Us and It Got Weird by Bria McNeal | Esquire
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a42760795/last-of-us-fungus-cordyceps-mycologist/

00:50:52 Cordyceps | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordyceps

00:50:59 Wasp parasitized by the fungus Cordyceps | Wikimedia Commons
Photo of a wasp parasitized by Cordyceps fungus by Erich G. Vallery, USDA Forest Service - SRS-4552, Bugwood.org
License: CC BY 3.0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordyceps#/media/File:Cordyceps.jpg

00:51:41 Ophiocordyceps unilateralis | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis

00:51:44 Schematic of ant behavioral manipulation by Ophiocordyceps unilateralis | Wikimedia Commons
Illustration of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis lifecycle by Lenapcrd
License: CC BY 3.0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis#/media/File:Ant_behavioural_manipulation_by_O._unilateralis.png

00:52:53 Gibellula arachnophila by niki14 | iNaturalist
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/147135398

▶ Listener Feedback

00:57:44 Eustachian tube | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustachian_tube

▶ Something We Enjoyed This Month

00:59:34 Witch Hat Atelier | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_Hat_Atelier

00:59:45 "BEST Anime of Spring 2026" by Geoff Thew | Mother's Basement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmDSoS5gybY&t=1279s

01:00:22 Magic | Independent Witch Hat Atelier Wiki
https://witchhatatelier.telepedia.net/wiki/Magic

01:01:25 I Built a Witch Hat Atelier Spell Simulator | Nerva dorf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVWYW0K3ikg

01:01:51 Smokesculpting Seal | Independent Witch Hat Atelier Wiki
https://witchhatatelier.telepedia.net/wiki/Smokesculpting_Seal

01:02:59 Palm Quires | Independent Witch Hat Atelier Wiki
https://witchhatatelier.telepedia.net/wiki/Palm_Quire

01:04:42 sarahmackattack | Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/sarahmackattack

01:05:07 bunny of shame AI SLOP sticker (10pcs) | grymary
https://www.grymuary.com/product/bunny-of-shame-ai-slop-sticker-10pcs

Hosted by Nicole Ackermans and Huyen Tue Dao
Edited by Huyen Tue Dao and Anthony Lemos

Episode 2: Eponyms: the good, the bad, the birds and the bee-tles

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0400

Why do we name birds, beetles, telescopes, and principles after people? The good, the bad, the weird. Is there Death of the Author for Eponyms? Why infinitely optimizing (and going 5mph over the speed limit) may not work. Why, we would love to stop adding exclamation points to our emails! Never have I ever been an apothecary.

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Show Notes

[0:23] Eponym
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eponym

▶ Eponyms in Technology
[20:22] Amdahl's law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
[27:33] Amdahl's Law for AI coding
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BrPB-j6ObY0
[30:06] The Mythical Man-Month
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
[30:52] The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/mythical-man-month-the/0201835959/cover.xhtml
[31:29] Liskov substitution principle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liskov_substitution_principle
[31:40] Object-oriented programming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming
[31:56] Liskov substitution principle - Architectural Patterns
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/architectural-patterns/9781787287495/cf7feec3-2c90-43f7-a3e5-19148eb48cd3.xhtml
[32:39] Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/
[32:41] Who Is Nancy Grace Roman?
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/who-is-nancy-grace-roman/
[34:58] Nancy Grace Roman with the James Webb Space Telescope
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nancy_Grace_Roman_with_the_James_Webb_Space_Telescope_(42127816211).jpg
[36:26] NASA once again declines to rename the James Webb Space Telescope
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/18/1137762508/nasa-declines-rename-james-webb-space-telescope-report
[36:37] Lavender Scare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_Scare
[37:40] NASA policy discourages naming missions after individuals
https://spacenews.com/nasa-policy-discourages-naming-missions-after-individuals/

▶ Something We Enjoyed This Month
[50:47] Never Have I Ever: Stories by Isabel Yap
https://isabelyap.com/never-have-i-ever
[53:58] The Apothecary Diaries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apothecary_Diaries
[54:42] The Apothecary Diaries on Crunchyroll
https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G3KHEVDJ7/the-apothecary-diaries

Hosted by Nicole Ackermans and Huyen Tue Dao
Edited by Huyen Tue Dao and Anthony Lemos

Episode 1.5: Tea Time! LIVE Office hours

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:00:00 -0400

We are going to mess around with our streaming settings, choose color combos, prep for next month's episode and chat with our live listeners. Stop in for a cup of tea!

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Episode 1: Make-up but not how you think

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0400

What is CV Dazzle and will it empower Niki to roller derby vs. a hundred duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck? Would Huyen prefer Vibranium Breasts over Super Speed and would either be the ideal superpower with which to build a dream Omni-tool Cyberdeck?

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Show Notes

▶ 3 Questions for Each Other
[01:38] TAYLOR | CALISTHENICS & MOBILITY (@littletfitness)
instagram.com/littletfitness
[02:49] Ilona Maher
instagram.com/ilonamaher
[03:19] “Just two competitive girlies that know ball. Catch my bullpen soon @ilonamaher?”
instagram.com/p/DbCAonWgqrC
[05:57] Psylocke (2024) #6
marvel.com/comics/issue/120377/psylocke_2024_6
[06:22] X-Men (1991) #32
marvel.com/comics/issue/14320/x-men_1991_32
[08:39] Goblins
dungeon-crawler-carl.fandom.com/wiki/Goblins
[08:53] Gorn Hegemony
memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Gorn_Hegemony?file=Gorn_captain.jpg
[19:01] [X-Men/MCU] Is Quicksilver not depressed or horrifically insane from living in a world that proceeds in slow-motion
reddit.com/r/AskScienceFiction/comments/4ka2r6/xmenmcu_is_quicksilver_not_depressed_or/
[20:11] Dense breast tissue: What it means to have dense breasts
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/mammogram/in-depth/dense-breast-tissue/art-20123968

▶ CV Dazzle
[24:26] CV Dazzle
adam.harvey.studio/cvdazzle/
[25:40] Facial recognition system
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_recognition_system#Techniques_for_face_recognition
[28:38] 10 Pieces of Fashion You Can Wear to Confuse Facial Recognition
gizmodo.com/anti-facial-recognition-fashion-what-to-wear-mask-1850093479/10
[29:00] CrypticNine
etsy.com/shop/CrypticNine?ref=shop-header-name&listing_id=1762033026&from_page=listing&dd_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F\
[31:47] Facial recognition system
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_recognition_system#3-dimensional_recognition
[32:11] Red Queen hypothesis
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis
[33:02] Watch Flashback Anti-Paparazzi Clothing Ruin Flash Photographs
petapixel.com/2015/02/25/watch-flashback-anti-paparazzi-clothing-ruin-flash-photographs/
[35:25] “You know that fun trend where you share those old, quirky photos of yourself back in the greatest year on earth, 2016? Yeah, well, you may be inadvertently training AI models with them. Because we can never have anything nice. #ai #tech #trending #2016” https://www.instagram.com/reels/DXeLlVlgS0q/
[38:47] Fitzpatrick scale
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale

▶ Cyberdecks
[41:20] I built the first makeup cyberdeck 🎀🍵
youtube.com/shorts/KvvCJt_hQgs
[42:04] The Hottest Anti-AI Gadget Is a Cyberdeck
wired.com/story/cyberdecks-tiktok-ube-boobey-diy-computer-gadget/
[42:47] Cyberdecks used to look like little laptops, but now they’re getting more personal
www.theverge.com/tech/943445/cyberdeck-tiktok
[45:10] Cyberdecks Explained (in 2 Minutes)
youtu.be/LwkeQaRz1ok?si=JiJLKj3ZaaP22niC
[45:31] DIY Cyberdecks Are the Newest Analog Trend Taking Over Social Media
teenvogue.com/story/diy-cyberdecks-newest-analog-trend-taking-social-media
[46:07] meshtimes • 7-22
tiktok.com/@meshtimes/video/7665534307582168333
[48:03] I'm Still Thinking About the Clam Phone in 'It Follows
collider.com/it-follows-clam-phone/
[49:17] Omni-tools | Mass Effect Wiki
masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Omni-tools
[50:32] Making the most UnNecESsARy Writing Device
youtube.com/watch?v=MEqnDIuDGxc
[51:40] DIY Cyberdecks Are the Newest Analog Trend Taking Over Social Media
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/diy-cyberdecks-newest-analog-trend-taking-social-media#:~:text=And%20as%20Tan%20says%2C%20%E2%80%9CArt%20is%20inherently%20performative%2C%20and%20there%27s%20nothing%20wrong%20with%20that.%E2%80%9D

▶ Something We Enjoyed This Month
[54:28] Alexis Nikole, Black Forager
instagram.com/blackforager
[54:54] "Happy Snacking, Don't Die!" by Alexis Nikole Nelsonh
simonandschuster.com/books/Happy-Snacking-Dont-Die!/Alexis-Nikole-Nelson/9781668002544
[56:39] Scott Johnson | Nerdtacular 2026
frogpants.com/pages/nerdtacular
[56:49] "Dungeon Crawler Carl (and just reading a real book)"
mattdinniman.com/books/dungeon-crawler-carl/
[59:56] Brick
getbrick.com
[01:02:38] Emmenology (MENOPAUSE & PERIMENOPAUSE) with Dr. Monica Christmas, Dr. Mary Claire Haver + more
alieward.com/ologies/menopause2
[01:03:52] Bovine Neuropathology (HEADBUTTING) with Dr. Nicole Ackermans
alieward.com/ologies/headbutts
[01:05:33] Jimothy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimothy_(raccoon)

Hosted by Nicole Ackermans and Huyen Tue Dao
Edited by Huyen Tue Dao and Anthony Lemos

Extra: DTNS Live @ Nerdtacular 2026

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0400

Where Technical Tea started: the DTNS Live Panel, “Science vs. Tech,” at Nerdtacular 2026!

On the panel were Bobby Frankenberger and Dr. Niki, representing Science, and Tom Merritt (our Executive Barista) and Huyen, representing Tech.

What is "technology?" What is "science?" Are dogs technology? What about fire? What are the true differences between our fields?

Trailer: The STEM Factory

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0400

As part of starting up Technical Tea, we recorded a little trailer for our podcast host, Acast, that was mostly written by our executive barista, Tom Merritt, imagining coming home from a hard day at the STEM factory.

Hosted by Nicole Ackermans and Huyen Tue Dao
Edited by Anthony Lemos

▶ Follow us:
Website: https://technicaltea.show
Patreon: https://patreon.com/technicalteashow
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Twitch: https://twitch.tv/technicalteashow

▶ Follow Niki:
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/nicoleackermans.com
Website: https://nicoleackermans.com
“Headbutting goats self-inflict traumatic brain injury”: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.26.734585v1
“Goats love to bash heads—but it might give them brain damage”: https://www.science.org/content/article/goats-love-bash-heads-it-might-give-them-brain-damage

▶ Follow Huyen:
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/queencodemonkey.dev
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/queencodemonkey
Website: https://randomlytyping.com

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YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailytechnewsshow
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▶ Intro/Outro, Music from #uppbeat, “Strangers In The Night (Acapella)” by Vocalista: https://uppbeat.io/music/tracks/vocalista/strangers-in-the-night-acapella

Episode 0: DTNS Experiment Week

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0400

The pilot episode of Technical Tea was for an unnamed experiment for Daily Tech News Show's Experiment Week 2026. It is a short one at at 31 minutes-ish, but we got such great feedback and had such a great time that we just went for it and started Technical Tea for real!

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Show Notes

▶ Intro
[01:42] DTNS Live, Nerdtacular 2026: Science vs. Tech
https://www.youtube.com/live/o_UmCyk1oKU

▶ Vibe Checks

[07:19] The Commodore Callback 8020 Is a Digital Detox Phone That Isn't Dumb
Meaning and purpose in the age of AI
https://www.wired.com/story/commodore-callback-8020-is-a-digital-detox-phone-that-isnt-dumb
[09:43] HMD Barbie™ Phone 4G
https://www.hmd.com/en_int/hmd-barbie-phone?sku=1GF030APC1L01
[11:26] ONE35 V2 Camera
https://joinflashback.co/en-us/products/flashback-one35-v2-camera
[13:17] A blood test that screens for multiple types of cancer? It may be available soon
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/21/nx-s1-5858691/blood-test-multi-cancer-early-detection-mced
[20:26] Mission / purpose in the age of AI for software engineers: Why Software Engineers Are Grieving
https://dev.jimgrey.net/2026/06/25/why-software-engineers-are-grieving
[25:26] iNaturalist
https://www.inaturalist.org
[26:27] Merlin Bird ID
https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org
[27:21] What It Means to Be a Mathematician When AI Does the Math
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-mathematics
[28:52] "For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper" by Joesph Fasano
https://poets.org/poem/student-who-used-ai-write-paper

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