Introducing: What Remains from NHPR's Outside/In

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True Crime, Missing, Mystery, Boston, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Introducing “What Remains,” a special series from NHPR’s Outside/In. A classroom display of human skulls sparks a reckoning at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. A movement grows to “abolish the collection.” The Penn Museum relents to pressure. But there are more skeletons in the closet.

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0:56.3	Hey, my name is Amory Sievertson, and I'm the host of the WBUR True Crime podcast series, Beyond All Repair, which I hope you've given a listen or will give a listen.
0:58.7	But in the meantime, I'm here to tell you about a new mini-series from New Hampshire Public
1:03.1	Radio called What Remains.
1:06.2	Just like post-mortem, the last series you heard here in this feed, What Remains is about human remains,
1:12.8	but it goes far back in time. Producer Felix Poon focuses on a collection of approximately
1:18.6	1,300 skulls held by the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. Much like postmortem, What Remains
1:25.4	is a wild story that comes with all sorts of thorny ethical questions about death, dignity, and how science ought to be done.
1:34.8	What Remains comes from the folks at the New Hampshire Public Radio podcast, Outside In, a favorite of mine, and we're dropping part one right here, right now.
1:44.0	Here's the show.
1:49.9	A quick heads up for listeners. This episode contains some swear words and descriptions of violence.
1:57.6	In 2018, Paul Wolf Mitchell was a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania.
2:03.5	He was teaching an intro to anthropology course, and one day, a student came up to talk to him
2:08.6	at the end of class. And he was really, really bright, but he was very shy because he was the
2:13.9	youngest person in the classroom. He was actually a high school student given permission to take a few courses at Penn.
2:20.9	Both of his parents were from Nigeria,
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