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SYMHC Classics: All American Girls Professional Baseball League
This 2020 episode covers the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which was founded in 1943. Some of these women athletes believed they w…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Shots and Sidi
Tracy and Holly share tetanus shot stories and discuss getting boosters. They then discuss the egos of European explorers in Africa.
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9 months, 2 weeks ago
Sidi Mubarak Bombay
Sidi Mubarak Bombay was sort of a combined guide, translator and nurse, and often the supervisor of the African laborers on expeditions through easte…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Tetanus
Tetanus has probably been around for most of human history, or even longer. But it’s preventable today thanks to vaccines.
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SYMHC Classics: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
This 2020 episode covers Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, an accomplished astronomer. She grew up in a society that didn’t really prioritize education for g…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Altina and Saving Babies
Holly talks about the dynamics of Altina Schinasi's family. Tracy shares a dispute over nursing uniform procedures on the Boston Floating Hospital th…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Boston Floating Hospital
The Boston Floating Hospital was a children’s hospital that operated on a boat in Boston Harbor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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9 months, 3 weeks ago
Altina Schinasi
Altina Schinasi is known as the inventor of cat-eye glasses, but she was also an artist, a documentarian, and an activist. And she was very frank abo…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
SYMHC Classics: Franz Nopsca
This 2019 episode covers Baron Franz Nopcsa, who lived an adventurous, scholarly life, funded entirely by his family money. He identified dinosaurs, …
10 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Small Fruit Division and Dorseys
Holly waxes rhapsodic about fruit. Tracy talks about planning an episode about William Henry Dorsey but then finding she needed to include his father…
10 months ago