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Solon of Athens
Solon is one of the seven sages of Athens, and he's credited with laying the groundwork for Athenian democracy. But most of what we know about him co…
2 years, 4 months ago
Missouri Leviathan
The Missouri Leviathan was an enormous skeleton made of fossilized bones that were excavated and assembled by Albert C. Koch. Was it a hoax, or just …
2 years, 4 months ago
SYMHC Classic: The Bone Wars
This 2012 episode from previous hosts Sarah and Deblina explores the rivalry between paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh. T…
2 years, 4 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Medical Scans and Nobel Prizes
Holly and Tracy share experiences with MRIs and hospital stays, and also talk about the various disagreements and biases in play in the medical commu…
2 years, 4 months ago
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Part 2
Once Dr. Ray Damadian had the idea to create a machine that used nuclear magnetic resonance to capture diagnostic data by scanning a human body, he s…
2 years, 4 months ago
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Part 1
Who invented the MRI? Well, that's actually tricky to say, and it is a topic that still opens debate. In this first part, we'll talk about the variou…
2 years, 4 months ago
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…
2 years, 4 months ago
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 …
2 years, 4 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…
2 years, 4 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 …
2 years, 5 months ago