In Ashley’s Piece of Stuff this week (Episode 9 – Gained in Transit – A Desert Goddess and Arctic Doggy Heroes) she was telling us about the diphtheria epidemic in Nome, Alaska, and the extraordinary dog-sledding feat that brought the anti-toxin to the cut-off city in 1925. The dog sledding team included several mushers, both… Read more

In this episode, we discuss important stuff in the news such as a doggy surfing competition in California and a seventeenth-century child’s anti-vampire grave that has been discovered in Poland (no stereotypes there!). For her Piece of Stuff, Ashley closely examines a set of eighteenth-century Samurai armor and the accompanying helmet and reveals clues that… Read more

Emily Gerard (1849-1905) – Scottish Writer and Anthropologist The Town Gate of Hermanstadt, Frontispiece to Gerard’s The Land Beyond the Forest, 1888, Illustrated by Elizabeth Thor For her Piece of Stuff this week Tracey talked about Vlad Draculea, aka Vlad the Impaler, whose name was the inspiration for the most famous vampire novel ever –… Read more

Tracey’s Stuff in the News Christian Elliot, “Why Iceland Wants Its Skulls Back,” National Geographic, August 3, 2023 accessed August 6, 2023 at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/iceland-skulls-peabody-harvard-hastings-stefansson-haffjararey Cara J. Chang, “Harvard Holds Remains of 19 Likely Enslaves Individuals, Thousands of Native American, Draft Report Says,” The Harvard Crimson, June 1, 2022, accessed on Aug 6, 2023 at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/6/1/draft-human-remains-report/ Marc Fennell, Stuff the… Read more

A tribute to Elvis’s favorite sandwich – Peanut Butter, Bacon and Banana – this sandwich is probably a slightly healthier version (as it is not fried). For this sandwich you will need to dig out your old George Foreman grill or toasted sandwich maker a panini press would work. Ingredients Two slices of bread, I… Read more

In this episode Ashley shares the news of over-the-counter birth control in the US and Tracey responds to another dumbass – this time explaining why it is inappropriate to say the Jews survived in the Holocaust if they were useful. Ashley’s piece of stuff is a glorious Sicán funerary mask (a culture that precedes the… Read more

In this episode we talk about why we think it is wrong to teach children that slaves were able to parlay skills they were taught for their “personal benefit” “later in life,” and what is going on with Northern California’s plague of penis fish. Our pieces of stuff this week involve evidence of necromancy in… Read more

In this episode we talk about impact we have had on our planet in the Anthropocene, moves to end child marriage in the US, an Egyptian monkey that smelled really good and aristocratic ladies and sex workers went both going to the theater with a full face covering. Tracey’s Stuff in the News Gloria Olapido,… Read more

Episode Description: In this episode we discuss medieval criminal surnames, how to deal with nuclear materials for the continued history of our planet, jewelry and a kick-ass queen from medieval Ukraine, that not all bird women are bad, and the origins of domesticated dogs.  Tracey’s Stuff in the News Ashley’s Stuff in the News Al… Read more

Show Notes Episode Two: Prehistoric Pee Pee and Pinot In this episode Ashley Bozian and Tracey Cooper delve into whether or not cut marks on prehistoric bone are evidence of cannibalism, explode the myth of man the hunter and woman the gatherer, explore the earliest known winery and think long and hard about the earliest… Read more