
Bedside Manners 4: Give and Take
In the not-too distant past, many European communities had their own local executioner. It was a paid government trade just like any other, but it came with a damning social stigma. But this role was ...
17 Feb 202330min

Bedside Manners 3: A Chemical Romance
Staying alive is a tough task, and medicine’s function is to help us do just that. Often, we turn to pharmaceuticals. But we can trace a moment, very early in our construction of the healing arts, tha...
3 Feb 202327min

Bedside Manners 2: Bleed ‘em Dry
Our language is ripe with turns of phrase that invoke the idea of blood. These idioms seem to illustrate some of our most intense human experiences – it’s the thing that we can’t live with, after all....
20 Jan 202326min

Bedside Manners 1: Body of Knowledge
For much of human history, the interal geography of our bodies has been a mystery. We’ve walked a long, dark road as we’ve sought its secrets – taking many wrong turns, and leaving a trail of casualti...
6 Jan 202327min

Grim & Mild Presents: Season 3 Trailer
From the blood in our veins to the search for eternal life, and everything in between, this is your chance to learn just how miraculous it is that we understand so much about the human body—and why ma...
30 Des 20221min

Pirates 13: Dead Men’s Tales
Hollywood adores the loveable rogue. Pirates are often depicted as wisecracking, kind-hearted individuals who set out for treasure but inevitably do the right thing. In the end, he usually gets the gi...
23 Des 202227min

Pirates 12: Cutlasses & Cutthroats
Cutthroat. According to dictionary entries, it’s someone so ruthless they cut the throat of another. A murderer is a person of vicious and Machiavellian nature. And in the world of piracy, there were ...
9 Des 202227min

Pirates 11: Still Waters
Pirates created their own republic and formed a democracy. They made allegiances with each other and governments. The Golden Age of Piracy even sounds somewhat...romantic. But all good things come to ...
25 Nov 202227min



















