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Humans did what?!
Weird history and medicine, with a healthy dose of snark.
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These are my teeth.
These are my teeth.
On those weird not-bones in your mouth and the proper use of quotation marks.
Whitney Dirks, PhD
Dec 19, 2023
Decaying Corpses 101
Decaying Corpses 101
Inhumation, exhumation, and rehumation of “vampire” graves
Whitney Dirks, PhD
Nov 24, 2023
Why I, a professional historian, don’t care if your kid learns cursive.
Why I, a professional historian, don’t care if your kid learns curs...
While I was working on my master’s thesis, I took one of the most useful classes of my graduate career: Early Modern English Paleography…
Whitney Dirks, PhD
Nov 6, 2023
Ceci n’est pas un butt plug
Ceci n’est pas un butt plug
(With apologies to Magritte)
Whitney Dirks, PhD
Nov 3, 2023
Which came first, the chicken or the penis?
Which came first, the chicken or the penis?
On the etymology of cock
Whitney Dirks, PhD
Oct 31, 2023
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