by admin | Mar 22, 2022 | Episodes
We like labels, as humans we like labeling things. Taxonomy is the branch of science concerned with classification and there used to be several inconsistent and sometimes conflicting systems of classification in use. Then came Carl Linneaus and his influential...
by admin | Mar 15, 2022 | Episodes
Interior: The Morgue. The medical examiner stands over a body on a table. Two grizzled detectives stand nearby, one with a notebook in his hand. The ME pulls back the sheet and her nose wrinkles. She takes a deep sniff; the detectives look at her with confusion. ...
by admin | Mar 8, 2022 | Episodes
Dorothy Parker was a famously wry, witty, and acerbic writer and critic, with a low opinion of relationships. Her wit was apparent from an early age, referring to her father’s second wife as “The Housekeeper.” She was described by journalist and critic Alexander...
by admin | Mar 1, 2022 | Episodes
HOME In 2013, Canadian artist Gillian Genser started to feel sick and for two years, no doctor one could determine why. Agitation, headaches, and vomiting gave way to hearing loss and memory problems. Finally, Genser was diagnosed with heavy metal poisoning. ...
by admin | Feb 22, 2022 | Episodes
The first Africans arrived at Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. They were recorded as “20 and odd Negroes.” These Africans had been stolen from a Portuguese slave ship, transported to an English warship flying a Dutch flag and sold to colonial settlers in American. The...
by admin | Feb 15, 2022 | Episodes
HOME The U.S. legal system has both helped and hindered racial justice through our history. – high points like Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, which said that separate but equal inherently isn’t equal, and one of my favorites, Loving v. Virginia. This aptly...
