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Behind the Scenes Minis: Colchester and Gin
Holly and Tracy discuss the Lincoln's relationship with the spiritual, and whether they can themselves juggle. Tracy shares a fun story of collectibl…
4 years, 6 months ago
A Distilled History of Gin
Like many spirits, gin was originally meant for medicinal or alchemical use. But eventually, people started combining juniper with alcohol to make a …
4 years, 6 months ago
The Rise and Fall of Charles Colchester
Colchester claimed to be psychic and probably did warn President Abraham Lincoln that he was going to be assassinated. He became an icon for Spiritua…
4 years, 6 months ago
SYMHC Classics: Who was the real Sherlock Holmes?
This 2010 episode from past hosts Sarah and Deblina covers Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant protagonist Sherlock Holmes, who became world-famous. But w…
4 years, 7 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Apples and Grace
Holly and Tracy talk about the apples from the childhoods, fruit-based desserts, and a cocktail that Holly stumbled across while researching nachos. …
4 years, 7 months ago
Grace Quackenbos Humiston, aka Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
Grace was an attorney and an investigator who did a lot of work to exonerate people who were wrongly convicted, expose corruption, and, in one partic…
4 years, 7 months ago
Three Eponymous Foods
Lots of foods are named after people, but sometimes the stories of those names are hard to pin down. This episode looks at where Granny Smith apples,…
4 years, 7 months ago
SYMHC Classics: Emma Lazarus
This 2018 episode covers one of the United States' first successful Jewish American writers, moving in the New York literary scene of the late 1800s.…
4 years, 7 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Laënnec and Eunice
Holly and Tracy talk about the aspects of the stethoscope story that didn't make it into the episode, including the classism related to cleanliness s…
4 years, 7 months ago
Eunice Newton Foote
In 1856, Foote became the first person to make a connection between the Earth’s temperature and the concentration of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosp…
4 years, 7 months ago