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Behind the Scenes Minis: Anthony's Secrets and Mammograms
Holly and Tracy discuss van Dyck's personal life and historical photography. They also discuss mammogram science and try to reassure listeners about …
2 years, 9 months ago
A History of Mammography
The history of mammography begins with the discovery of X-rays in 1895. But it took a very long time for breast imaging to advance, in part because i…
2 years, 9 months ago
Anthony van Dyck
Anthony van Dyck was a commercially successful painter in Antwerp and Italy, but he may have had the most influence in England when he served as cour…
2 years, 9 months ago
SYMHC Classics: Orphan Tsunami
This 2013 episode covers a tsunami that struck the coast of Japan in January 1700, . It took a while -- a long while -- to figure out where the catal…
2 years, 9 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Succession and the Roeblings
Holly talks about her infatuation with the show "Succession," and why Tracy might not like it. Tracy talks about a unique bridge designed by John Roe…
2 years, 9 months ago
Emily Warren Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge
Emily Warren Roebling played a crucial role in the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge after her husband became disabled. It’s a story of an engineer…
2 years, 9 months ago
Stakhanovite Movement
In 1935, miner Alexei Stakhanov became a hero of labor in the Soviet Union, and the Stakhanovite movement began. But what was touted as an organic st…
2 years, 9 months ago
SYMHC Classics: Hypatia
This 2013 episode covers Hypatia, one of the earliest female mathematicians and astronomers. Though she wasn't the very first, she was among the grea…
2 years, 9 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Shakespearean Floorboards
Tracy explains why there aren't any repatriations or exhumations in this week's edition of Unearthed! There's also discussion of all the ways a sanda…
2 years, 9 months ago
Unearthed! in Fall/Winter 2023, Part 2
Finishing out discussion of things literally and figuratively dug up in the last months of 2023, we're covering shipwrecks, art, animals, and the m…
2 years, 9 months ago