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.
Episode 81: Light
Episode 80: Autumn
Episode 79: Changing Phases
Episode 78: Public Science
Episode 77: Innovations and Inventions
Episode 76: Working Class Chemistry
Episode 75: Best of Distillations #4
Episode 74: Best of Distillations #3
Episode 73: Brave New Worlds
Episode 72: Space and Place
Episode 71: Breakfast
Episode 70: The Chemistry of Dentistry
Episode 69: Lab Safety
Episode 68: Integrated Circuits
Episode 67: Baseball
Episode 66: Cleaning Green
Episode 65: Going to the Dogs
Episode 64: sLowlife
Episode 63: Biofuel
Episode 62: Chemical Romance
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