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2402 episodes transcribedNostalgia is a funny thing. It's not home sickness, it's more connected to emotions and a time in your life. But is nostalgia worthwhile? Nascent scie...
It was America's most famous family feud, but the history of the Hatfields vs the McCoys is fraught with bias and inaccuracies. Dig into a disagreemen...
TED Talks have been around longer than you think. They became really popular once YouTube came along to bring their often inspirational messages to th...
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Humans have been wearing makeup for a few thousand years now and yet, here in the US the chemicals used in them are still not understood and not reall...
Around the world and across time, people have fallen victim to one of the strongest contagions of all - the power of suggestion. Here are just a few...
Since the Supreme Court ruled in 2010 in the Citizens United case that political contributions are speech and should be protected, the floodgates of a...
Each year hundreds of dogs haul humans in sleds as part of the 1,100 plus mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. It's grueling and not without controversy...
Not too long ago, people would pay money to gawk and stare at a performer with a physical disformity. They were called freakshows and they began in la...
El Nino may mean "the little boy" or "Christ Child" in Spanish, but this weather phenomenon really means crazy things for Planet Earth. We're talking...
Sometimes things - like dentures, airplanes or even people - go missing. And when they never turn up again they become enduring, and engrossing, myste...
Renewable energy could be the key to ensuring the future prosperity and health of Planet Earth and humankind. In this very special episode, we sit dow...
For about 175 years people have been huffing nitrous oxide for everything from vision quests to anesthetic to get plain old high. And after all that t...
It's likely that without the invention of the pneumatic jackhammer, the Industrial Revolution wouldn't have hummed along quite so smoothly. Certainly...
We are going to get down and dirty with all things poop in this episode: What a healthy poop looks like, how to poop your best, the history of using p...
Rabies may have gotten a lot of attention in the U.S. in the 70s and 80s, but it's still an issue in developing countries. Learn all about this nasty...
On Pentacost Island the ritual that preceded bungee jumping is alive and well. Just why do these tribesmen risk life and limb? To ensure a hearty yam...
In World War II, a secret department of British 'corkscrew thinkers' hatched a plan to use the cadaver of an unclaimed homeless man to turn the tide o...
Forty years after a Japanese doctor began using whole body cryotherapy to treat patients with arthritis; the technique has made its ways to med-spas a...
Hippocrates realized that it is even more important to understand the patient than to understand the disease and now, 2000 years later, we are coming...
