Introducing: What Remains from Outside/In

Bear Brook

NHPR

True Crime

4.8 • 15.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 38 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. To hear all three parts, including the prologue, subscribe to Outside/In.

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0:00.0	Hey it's Jason Moon. I am back in the feed for two reasons. The first is just to let you
0:06.2	know that we are still reporting both seasons of this podcast and things are happening
0:12.0	in both cases. People are still working really hard to find out who the last remaining unidentified victim is in the Bear Brook case from season one.
0:22.0	And as for season two and Jason Carroll, in the Bear Brook case from season one.
0:22.9	And as for season two and Jason Carroll,
0:25.7	the long awaited DNA testing in the case
0:28.6	is finally underway.
0:30.8	And when there are big updates on either of those stories, we'll be back with a new episode.
0:36.2	So all to say, stay subscribed.
0:40.1	The second thing I'm here to tell you about is a new series called What Remains.
0:44.7	It comes from my colleagues at Outside In, another great narrative podcast from NHPR
0:49.6	about the places where curiosity and the natural world collide.
0:53.6	Outside in is led by Taylor Quimby, who helped make Bear Brooks season one.
0:58.6	I got to listen to an early draft of what remains, and I was totally gripped by it.
1:03.0	For months reporter Felixpoon has been digging into how museums, universities,
1:08.0	and other big institutions are rethinking what to do with their collections of human remains.
1:15.2	Felix zooms in on one particular example at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia.
1:20.5	It is a wild story.
1:21.8	I had no idea how complicated and controversial this stuff could be.
1:26.0	And at the center of it are some really big thorny ethical questions that I think Bear Brook listeners might appreciate.
1:32.0	We're dropping part one of the series right here. that I think Bear Brook listeners might appreciate.
1:33.0	We're dropping part one of the series right here so you can check it out.
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