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SYMHC Classics: Who was the real Sherlock Holmes? Sep 18, 2021

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This 2010 episode from past hosts Sarah and Deblina covers Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant protagonist Sherlock Holmes, who became world-famous. But was Sherlock Holmes based on a real person?

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Behind the Scenes Minis: Apples and Grace Sep 17, 2021

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Holly and Tracy talk about the apples from the childhoods, fruit-based desserts, and a cocktail that Holly stumbled across while researching nachos. Grace Humiston's tricky name is mentioned, as well as the more frustrating aspects of her story.

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Grace Quackenbos Humiston, aka Mrs. Sherlock Holmes Sep 15, 2021

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Grace was an attorney and an investigator who did a lot of work to exonerate people who were wrongly convicted, expose corruption, and, in one particularly dramatic case, solve a murder that police had written off as the victim having run away.

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Three Eponymous Foods Sep 13, 2021

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Lots of foods are named after people, but sometimes the stories of those names are hard to pin down. This episode looks at where Granny Smith apples, nachos, and the Cobb salads get their names.

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SYMHC Classics: Emma Lazarus Sep 11, 2021

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This 2018 episode covers one of the United States' first successful Jewish American writers, moving in the New York literary scene of the late 1800s. She also wrote one of the most famous poems of all time, and even if you don't know her name, odds are you know at least some of that work.

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Behind the Scenes Minis: Laënnec and Eunice Sep 10, 2021

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Holly and Tracy talk about the aspects of the stethoscope story that didn't make it into the episode, including the classism related to cleanliness standards that often comes up in writeups about it. Tracy discusses the difficulty in getting a sense of Eunice Newton Foote's personality based on the available documentation of her life.

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Eunice Newton Foote Sep 08, 2021

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In 1856, Foote became the first person to make a connection between the Earth’s temperature and the concentration of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere, though she’s rarely credited for it.

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Invention of the Stethoscope Sep 06, 2021

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One of the most basic tools of the medical profession is the stethoscope, but it’s a more recent invention than you might suspect. Its invention is credited to French doctor René Laënnec.

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SYMHC Classics: Frederic Tudor, the Ice King Sep 04, 2021

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This 2017 episode covers Tudor's clever plan: In cold weather, he would harvest ice for cheap, and then sell it all around the world when it was hot.

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Behind the Scenes Minis: Kitties and Smallpox Sep 03, 2021

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Holly and Tracy talk about the kitties in their lives and Mike's good fortune to have had his meals cooked for him. When they turn to smallpox, discussion covers the inevitable ways in which it informs thinking about the current pandemic.

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