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Field Trip: A Hawaiian Breadfruit Rev‘ULUtion
Nov 25, 2024What even IS a breadfruit? How do you cook it? Why have Pacific Islanders grown it for so long? Can it solve world hunger? And what does it have to do with an infamous 18th century mutiny on the high ...
Canistrumology (BASKET WEAVING. YES, BASKET WEAVING) with James C. Bamba
Nov 20, 2024Thorny leaves! Embarrassing imports! Basket gossip! Making cool stuff from invasive vines! Renowned weaver and teacher, James C. Bamba, connected more deeply with his Mariana Island heritage through...
Ergopathology (BURNOUT) with Kandi Wiens
Nov 13, 2024Exhaustion! Numbness! Anger! You’re stressed out. I get it. Let’s fix it. I cornered one of the world’s experts on Ergopathology, scholar and author Dr. Kandi Wiens, to ask about the causes of burnout...
Odonatology (DRAGONFLIES) with Jessica Ware
Nov 06, 2024They’re acrobatic fliers with long bodies and veined wings and their babies breathe through their butts: dragonflies. Let’s get into the difference between a damselfly and dragonfly, how fast they dar...
Field Trip: I Take You to the Making of a Mural
Oct 30, 2024Folks, come with me. We’re hanging out under some train tracks late at night in Philadelphia doing street art. As the promised companion piece to our wonderful Modern Toichographology episode on mural...
Confectionology (CANDY) with Susan Benjamin
Oct 23, 2024Licorice opinions! War chocolate! Candy corn origins, circus peanut secrets, the sourest sourballs, and your great aunt’s purse. Stay until the very end for the biggest shocked laugh I have ever had o...
Momiology (MUMMIFICATION) Part 2 with Salima Ikram & Kara Cooney
Oct 17, 2024Coffin engravings! Archaeology ethics! Linen wrappings! Repatriation! Sexy hippos! We’re back with more mummies in this Part 2 with the wonderful Drs. Salima Ikram & Kara Cooneywho chat about animal m...
Momiology (MUMMIFICATION) Part 1 with Kara Cooney & Salima Ikram
Oct 09, 2024Linen wrapping. Expensive resins. Sarcophagi. Preserving for eternity – or until someone raids their tomb. It’s a brand-new Spooktober episode with not one but two guests: Dr. Salima Ikram is a profes...
Urban Rodentology (SEWER RATS) Encore with Bobby Corrigan
Oct 02, 2024Let’s kick off Spooktober with… RATS: They love pizza. They invade taquerias at midnight. They scurry. They cuddle. They outsmart. They inspire movies that inspire musicals. Proving that not just wood...
Modern Toichographology (MURALS & STREET ART) with Conrad Benner
Sep 26, 2024Murals! Frescos! Graffiti! Street art! Philadelphia is the birthplace of graffiti and the mural capital of the world so we sit down with city historian, journalist, curator, and Toichographologist Con...