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Géricault and the Raft of the Medusa (Part 2)
In the aftermath of the shipwreck, France was scandalized by what had happened as the details emerged. And artist Théodore Géricault became obsessed …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Medusa Shipwreck (Part 1)
The first episode of this two-parter covers the French mission to Senegal that the frigate Medusa led in 1816. Soon, the mission fell disastrously ap…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
SYMHC Classics: Chesapeake Bay Oyster Wars
This 2013 episode covers the years after the Industrial Revolution and the Civil War when the oyster supply became so scarce that people turned to oy…
7 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Math and Falsehoods
Holly shares a story about Augustin Fresnel's early career. Tracy discusses an article criticizing the Smithsonian and points out its incorrect conte…
7 months ago
Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton is known as one of the earliest Mexican-American authors published in English, and her life story is tied closely to the …
7 months ago
Augustin Jean Fresnel
Augustin Fresnel didn’t live a long life, but he contributed significantly to the understanding of light and to the safety of coastlines. Neither of …
7 months ago
SYMHC Classics: Max von Pettenkofer
This 2020 episode talks about how Pettenkofer's ideas about cholera's spread weren’t exactly right, but they still had really beneficial impacts on t…
7 months, 1 week ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: All Things Clean
Tracy talks about her background writing copy for sanitation and cleaning products. She and Holly also discuss how the implementation of the Wells' r…
7 months, 1 week ago
William Firth Wells and Mildred Weeks Wells
Husband-and-wife team William Firth Wells and Mildred Weeks Wells conducted research that had the potential to make a big difference in the safety of…
7 months, 1 week ago
A History of Soap
All over the world, for all of human history – and probably going back to our earliest hominid ancestors – people have found ways to try to keep them…
7 months, 1 week ago