In 2019, Abdul-Aliy Muhammad, a community organizer and journalist, learned that the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology had a collection of skulls that belonged to enslaved people. As Muhammad demanded that the university return these skulls, they discovered that claiming ownership over bodies of marginalized people is not just a relic of the past—it continues to this day.
CreditsHost: Alexis Pedrick
Reporter and Producer: Mariel Carr
Additional production by: Rigoberto Hernandez
Edited by: Rigoberto Hernandez and Padmini Ragunath
Audio Engineer: Jonathan Pfeffer
“Innate Theme” composed by Jonathan Pfeffer. Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions.
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Episode 139: The Brain on Sports
Episode 138: Your Genome
Episode 137: Cocktails
Episode 136: Good Vibrations
Episode 135: Black Friday
Episode 134: Is Anybody Out There?
Episode 133: Halloween Candy
Episode 132: Harvest
Episode 131: Dinosaurs
Episode 130: Our Chemical Landscape – The Wild
Episode 129: Taste
Episode 128: Our Chemical Landscape – The Farm
Episode 127: Best of Distillations #8
Episode 126: Best of Distillations #7
Episode 125: Chem-moo-stry
Episode 124: Our Chemical Landscape – The Suburb
Episode 123: Under the Sea
Episode 122: Our Chemical Landscape – The City
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