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2402 episodes transcribedAbout 5,300 years ago a Copper Age shepherd was murdered. He just happened to die in a place where his body was so well preserved that gave researcher...
Today we take to the friendly skies to detail the fascinating history of air travel. From planes with piano bars and lounges to the current no frills...
The peace sign is one of the most globally recognized symbols around today, but it’s only a few decades old. And it wasn’t the hippies who created it,...
When we think of an abused spouse we tend to think of horrific physical or emotional violence. But over the last decade or so, it’s become clear that’...
It's pretty obvious something's gone wrong when you get a sunburn, but did you know a tan means you've damaged your DNA? Dive into the three Ss of sum...
In the last decade American schools became enrapt by a new psychological concept centered on persevering. Things went south when they started attachin...
Learn all about the saddest phone notification in today's episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
You've probably been to a symphony performance and wondered, what in the heck are conductors doing up there anyway? Well we're here to explain that as...
Think tanks? More like stink tanks! We're kidding. Think tanks do valuable work, when they operate in a non-partisan way of course. Learn all about th...
If you grew up in the 70s and 80s in America, you probably have the image of your tattered Guinness Book of Records. The book was ubiquitous then, but...
Mudlarking is a uniquely British hobby, though you can dig through river mud anywhere there's a river. But the Thames has the good stuff. See omnystud...
Unit 731 was a secret group within the Japanese Army in WWII that committed unspeakable atrocities against humans in the name of scientific research....
No one - no one - likes to vomit, but there are some people who would prefer to die rather than vomit, people who spend their days worrying they will...
In the exciting conclusion of our two-part episode on Hoover, we come in at the Cold War and end on a strange note.See omnystudio.com/listener for pri...
By definition hobos are people who travel from town to town taking odd jobs as they go. But some towns are friendlier than others, and hobos developed...
It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that J. Edgar Hoover was perhaps the most powerful American of the 20th century. By the time he established the...
On Halloween 1938 young radio star Orson Welles scared the pants off of America with a fictional news bulletin claiming Martians had landed and were d...
The idea that we aren’t the first advanced civilization to live on Earth sounds like a fringe theory, but it raises a good question: How can we be so...
Even the dullest hockey game is worth seeing when the Zamboni comes out to resurface the ice.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Taking care of 12,000 tons of residential trash every day is a hard job. But how does that even work? Listen in to marvel at the NYC sanitation system...
