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SYMHC Classics: Radioiodine Therapy
This 2019 episode examines thyroid disease through history, and the physics lecture heard by Saul Hertz in the 1930s that changed the treatment of hy…
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Salty Popcorn
Holly and Tracy discuss ways that they like to make popcorn, and historical recipes that used popcorn. They also talk about the incorrect assumption …
1 year, 9 months ago
Iodized Salt
People started adding iodine to salt because in some parts of the world serious, chronic iodine deficiency was incredibly widespread, which was causi…
1 year, 9 months ago
Popcorn
A lot of the stories that are told about popcorn in history – particularly in North America – are incorrect. Popcorn has been around for a very long …
1 year, 9 months ago
SYMHC Classics: Jules Cotard and Cotard Syndrome
This 2017 episode covers the work of Jules Cotard, the first psychiatrist to write about the cluster of symptoms that would come to be called Walking…
1 year, 9 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Strikes, Immigration and Weeds
Tracy and Holly talk about the Disney animators' strike of 1941, Angel Island, and Tyrus Wong's Christmas cards. They also discuss the merits of dand…
1 year, 9 months ago
Gertrude Jekyll's Artistic Gardens
Gertrude Jekyll was born into a 19th-century English family of means, but her life took an unconventional path for a woman in her circumstances, and …
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The Art of Tyrus Wong
Over the course of an extraordinarily long career, Tyrus Wong worked across a range of media in a whole collection of industries – animation, live-ac…
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SYMHC Classics: San Francisco 1906 - The Great Quake and Fires
This 2019 episode covers the earthquake of April 18, 1906 that changed San Francisco forever. The earthquake and a series of fires devastated much of…
1 year, 9 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Ships and Fences
Tracy and Holly talk about the eerie similarities of the stories of the Andrea Doria and the Empress of Ireland. They also talk about Jacob Haish's p…
1 year, 9 months ago