SYMHC Classics: History of Carousels
This 2015 episode delves into carousels. They're part of childhood, but they were originally billed as an entertainment for adults and children alike. And even further back than that, it's believed th...
15 Jan 202227min
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 purpose. They also discuss confusion over days off, and ...
14 Jan 20228min
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. But there are also a few last-minute additions to th...
12 Jan 202241min
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 letters, exhumations and and repatriations. Learn ...
10 Jan 202240min
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 for placement with museums and collectors. They al...
8 Jan 202233min
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 Cyrano story that didn't make it into Wednesday's epis...
7 Jan 202214min
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 been best at was self-invention. His real story is blu...
5 Jan 202233min
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 classify it for almost a century. This happened in tan...
3 Jan 202238min
