SYMHC Classics: Stephens Island Wren
This 2017 episode covers the extinction of one New Zealand bird species that's often attributed to a single cat. While feline predation played a significant role in the end of the Stephens Island wren...
9 Maalis 202431min
Behind the Scenes Minis: Fish Sandwich
Holly and Tracy discuss how neither of them like Sloppy Joes, and a cocktail recipe Holly found during research. Tracy shares how very much she adores Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer.See omnystudio.com/lis...
8 Maalis 202423min
Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer and the Coelacanth
The coelacanth was believed to have gone extinct about 66 million years ago, until one was spotted in South Africa in 1938. Naturalist and museum curator Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer played a key part i...
6 Maalis 202446min
Eponymous Foods – Sandwiches Edition
Sloppy Joe, Hot Brown, and the Reuben are all well-known sandwiches, and they are all named after people. Though the specific person is argued in two of these cases. Research: “Bechamel.” Oxford Ref...
4 Maalis 202431min
SYMHC Classics: The End of Rinderpest
This 2020 episode examines how, though rinderpest was declared eradicated fairly recently, rinderpest's history goes way back. Eradicating the disease took a coordinated, international effort.See omny...
2 Maalis 202435min
Behind the Scenes Minis: Source Chasing and Measles Shots
Tracy mentions tracking down sources for quotes about Rebecca Crumpler during research. She and Holly also discuss measles vaccine protocols. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
1 Maalis 202425min
Measles: Historical Highlights
Though measles was declared eliminated in the U.S. decades ago, outbreaks do still happen here, and in other places it’s much more common. Before vaccines were widely available, it killed an estimated...
28 Helmi 202445min
'Doctress' Rebecca Crumpler
Rebecca Crumpler was the first Black woman in the United States to earn a medical degree. She also wrote one of the first, if not the first, medical texts by a Black person in the United States. Resea...
26 Helmi 202438min
