Offbeat History: The Crash at Crush and Other Train Wreck Spectacles

Offbeat History: The Crash at Crush and Other Train Wreck Spectacles

In fall 2017, we talked about a strange cultural phenomenon. For a brief window from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, people in the United States were watching train wrecks for fun.

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SYMHC Classics: Rosalind Franklin, DNA's Dark Lady

SYMHC Classics: Rosalind Franklin, DNA's Dark Lady

We're reaching back to 2011 for an episode from Sarah and Deblina about a woman scientist. The men who are usually credited with discerning DNA's structure won the Nobel Prize in 1962, but they used R...

13 Huhti 201925min

Stop-motion Animation History With LAIKA Studios

Stop-motion Animation History With LAIKA Studios

Holly recently got to visit the set of LAIKA's new film "Missing Link," and the production team there agreed to be part of an episode about the history of stop-motion animation. This made for a supers...

10 Huhti 20191h 12min

Baron Franz Nopcsa

Baron Franz Nopcsa

Nopcsa lived an adventurous, scholarly life, funded entirely by his family money. He identified dinosaurs, inserted himself into Albanian politics, and wrote volumes and volumes of books and papers. B...

8 Huhti 201928min

SYMHC Classics: The Battle of Hastings

SYMHC Classics: The Battle of Hastings

Today we're traveling back to a episode from 2014 about the Battle of Hastings, which is often boiled it down to a sentence: The Normans invaded Britain in 1066, and their victory ended the Anglo-Saxo...

6 Huhti 201928min

Juliette Gordon Low

Juliette Gordon Low

The, founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America had an early life that’s somewhat surprising. But she was deeply interested in helping other from an early age, and when she learned abo...

3 Huhti 201937min

The Tiara of Saitaphernes

The Tiara of Saitaphernes

Our April Fool’s Day story is the tale of an elaborate hoax. It starts with the Scythians and how their artifacts became highly prized in 19th century Europe, and ends with an artist who came into fam...

1 Huhti 201931min

SYMHC Classics: Laura Bridgman's Education

SYMHC Classics: Laura Bridgman's Education

Today we're revisiting the 2012 episode from previous hosts Sarah and Deblina on Laura Bridgman, the first deafblind person to be educated -- a feat accomplished by Samuel Gridley Howe in the 1830s. P...

30 Maalis 201924min

The Life and Disappearance of Ettore Majorana

The Life and Disappearance of Ettore Majorana

Had his life had taken a different course, he may have become as widely known as Albert Einstein. In the 1930s, Majorana contributed to the field of quantum mechanics in ways that fundamentally shaped...

27 Maalis 201930min

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