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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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Irving and Tull
Tracy and Holly discuss Tracy being frightened by Ichabod Crane's fate in the Disney Sleepy Hollow cartoon as a kid, and the letters between Dickens …
4 years, 3 months ago
Jethro Tull’s Horse-hoeing Husbandry
You may recognize the name as that of a band, but Jethro Tull was an 18th-century gentleman farmer often credited with inventing the seed drill.
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