Hi folks Taylor Quimby here so some of you know the other podcast I work on called

Outside In some of you maybe even discovered Patient Zero because of Outside In but if

you've not heard of it it's been around for almost 10 years, and we have got narrative stories about science, the environment, a relationship to the outdoors.

Sometimes it's wacky and curious and fun. Sometimes there are these deeply human more serious investigative stories and if you have never checked it out you definitely should.

But today I specifically wanted to recommend a short mini series that we've been putting out called What Remains.

For months, producer Felix Poon has been digging into how museums, universities, and other institutions

are rethinking what to do with these old collections

of human remains.

We are talking reference collections of skeletons space. There are a lot of people on different sides of different debates here.

And as I was editing the series, I kept thinking, there is a lot of overlap with the themes

in Patient Zero and a lot of thorny ethical issues I just didn't think about before

hearing the story. So that's my ramble. I wanted to share the first episode with

you and if you're into it you can check out the rest of the mini series, which is available now on the outside in feed wherever you get your podcasts.

Here it is.

In 2018, Paul Wolf Mitchell was a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania.

He was teaching an intro to anthropology course, and one day a student came up to talk to him at

the end of class.

And he was really, really bright.

And but he was very shy because he was the youngest person

in the classroom.

He was actually a high school student,

given permission to take a few courses at Penn. Both of his parents were from Nigeria,

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