In this episode Tracey talks about news of missing Icelandic skulls and Ashley is extraordinarily happy about a giant, space disco-ball. Tracey's piece of stuff discusses the plant datura (or devil's trumpet) and people trippin' balls globally on it for recreational or religious purposes, while Ashley examines the transregional phenomena of snake deities being depicted as women. Strap in we are in for a bumpy ride!
Tracey’s Stuff in the News
Christian Elliot, “Why Iceland Wants Its Skulls Back,”
National Geographic, August 3, 2023 accessed August 6, 2023 at
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/iceland-skulls-peabody-harvard-hastings-stefansson-haffjararey
Cara J. Chang, “Harvard Holds Remains of 19 Likely Enslaves Individuals, Thousands of Native American, Draft Report Says,” The Harvard Crimson, June 1, 2022, accessed on Aug 6, 2023 at
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/6/1/draft-human-remains-report/
Marc Fennell,
Stuff the British Stole, Podcast accessible at
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/stuff-the-british-stole
Danielle Bainbridge, “The Problem with Museums,”
PBS Origins (video), available at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av_3tGceTvs
John Oliver, “Museums: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO),” available at
https://youtu.be/eJPLiT1kCSM
Ashley’s Stuff in the News
Will Dunham, “Alien Planet with Metallic Clouds Resembles 'a Giant Mirror in Space,'”
Reuters, July 10, 2023,
https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/alien-planet-with-metallic-clouds-resembles-a-giant-mirror-space-2023-07-10/.
Tracey’s Piece of Stuff
David W. Robinson, Kelly Brown, Moira Mc Menemy, David Haviland, Datura quids at Pinwheel Cave, California, provide unambiguous confirmation of hallucinogens at a rock art site,” PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), Nov 23, 2020, accessed Aug 5, 2023 at
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014529117.
David Robinson and Fraser Sturt, “Towards articulating Rock-Art with archaeology: An Interim Report of the Pin-Wheel Cave Rock-Art and Bedrock Mortar Complex, (CA-KER-5836 & 5837), Kern County, California,”
Kern County Archaeological Journal 10: 25-44. Accessed July 30, 2023 at
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284504174_Towards_Articulating_Rock-art_with_Archaeology_An_Interim_Report_of_the_Pinwheel_Cave_Rock-art_and_Bedrock_Mortar_Complex\
Soni P, Siddiqui AA, Dwivedi J, Soni V. Pharmacological properties of Datura stramonium L. as a potential medicinal tree: an overview. Asian Pac J Trop Biomed. 2012 Dec;2(12):1002-8. doi: 10.1016/S2221-1691(13)60014-3. PMID: 23593583; PMCID: PMC3621465.
Marneros A, Gutmann P, Uhlmann F. Self-amputation of penis and tongue after use of Angel's Trumpet. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2006 Oct;256(7):458-9. doi: 10.1007/s00406-006-0666-2. Epub 2006 Jun 16. PMID: 16783491.
U.S. Forest Service, “The Powerful Solanaceeae,” accessed August 1, 2023.
Adam King, Terry G. Powis, Komh F. Cheong, Bobi Deere, Robert B. Pickering, ERic Singleton and Nilesh Gaikwad, “Absor