S7 Ep5: Peculiar Prosthetics

Accidents will happen. It seems no matter how hard we all try, things just sometimes have a way of getting mixed up. Shoes go on the wrong feet. The right key goes into the wrong lock. And a live person gets buried, even though they're not dead. It happened, Dear Guest, and more ...  Show more

Welcome, Dear Guest! Please take your seat for a stone-cold treat! Tonight, we are Hellbent on sharing the eerie story of Murder Stones. These morbid, mournful monuments are strewn across the United Kingdom and are meant to mark the spot of many a murder! Join us for a triple tel ...  Show more

Mary Roach dives into the strange, funny, and unsettling world of designing new body parts, from pig hearts to prosthetic feet, revealing just how messy replacing ourselves can be.

Replaceable You

Let's discuss some rather curious people and their unusual creations.Join our Patreon for ad-free episodes!: https://www.patreon.com/grimandmildSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

We talk about wild human inventions inspired by animal designs!

Guest: Ellen Weatherford

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For millennia, humans have created artifacts of their lives—from art, to books, to music. This hour, we explore ideas about capturing the ephemeral human experience for future generations to find. Guests include paleoanthropologist Genevieve von Petzinger, museum curator Ariana C ...  Show more