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Unearthed! Year-end 2021, Part 1
It's time for what was unearthed in the last quarter of 2021! Part one this time includes lots of updates to previous episodes, as well as books and …
4 years, 1 month ago
SYMHC Classics: The Verreaux Brothers
This 2014 episode discusses Jules Verreaux and his two brothers, who collected an impressive array of flora and fauna specimens from around the world…
4 years, 1 month ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Platypus and Cyrano
Tracy and Holly discuss the natural tendency to find the platypus suspect as an animal. They also talk about some of the tangential pieces of the Cyr…
4 years, 1 month ago
Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac is often called a man of letters, a philosopher, a soldier, a duelist, a playwright and many more things. But what he may have bee…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Platypus Quarrel
When European naturalists saw a platypus for the first time, they found it so bizarre that they thought it was fake, and then argued about how to cla…
4 years, 2 months ago
SYMHC Classics: Piltdown Man
This 2016 episode covers the Piltdown Man, which is one of the world's most infamous instances of scientific fraud. It derailed the study of evolutio…
4 years, 2 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Photography Innovators
Holly and Tracy discuss Daguerre's life, and veer off into VR, and the nature of Daguerre's monetization of photography. Then they talk about the fam…
4 years, 2 months ago
Robert Cornelius: More Than a Selfie
Cornelius is famous for having taken what’s often called the world’s first selfie - and he's noted for how handsome he looks in it. But he was smart …
4 years, 2 months ago
Louis Daguerre and the Daguerreotype
Daguerre comes up almost any time we mention photography, but we’ve never covered his life story. Well before he figured out how to capture images th…
4 years, 2 months ago
SYMHC Classics: Christmas Triple-Feature
This 2018 episode takes a look at three creative works that have become staples of the Christmas season. All three of them have played a huge part in…
4 years, 2 months ago