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Behind the Scenes Minis: End of 2021 Unearthed
Tracy shares the logistics of assembling her lists for Unearthed!, and she and Holly talk about criteria for leaving details out of the show on purpo…
4 years, 5 months ago
Unearthed! Year-end 2021, Part 2
In the second part of the year-end edition of Unearthed! the show covers necropolises and art, and edibles and potables, shipwrecks, and potpourri. B…
4 years, 5 months ago
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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 months ago