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Day of the Medieval Dead
Episode 999
Medieval tales of walking corpses reflect common misunderstandings of death and the era's blurred line between myth and reality.
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Day of the Medieval Dead
Episode 999
Medieval tales of walking corpses reflect common misunderstandings of death and the era's blurred line between myth and reality.
Learn about your ad …7 months, 2 weeks ago
The Manifestation Trap: OCD and the Law of Attraction
Episode 998
What began as 19th-century mind-cure mysticism has morphed into a billion-dollar culture that may be hurting more minds than it helps.
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Sounds of the Aurora
Episode 997
Using real science to investigate the question of whether some people can "hear" the aurora.
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Murder in Hex Hollow
Episode 996
The 1928 murder of a folk healer ignited a media frenzy and moral panic, revealing how superstition and magical thinking can fuel real-world tragedy.…
8 months, 1 week ago
Preview — Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth on The Internet We Didn’t Get
We’re sharing a preview of a new audiobook, Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth, which celebrates the wit and wisdom of the legendary science fictio…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
The Eugenic History of the Body Type Diet
Episode 995
Is there good science backing up the idea that you should eat based upon which of three body types you have?
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Making AI Environmentally Friendly
Episode 994
Will our improvements to AI's voracious appetite for electricity keep pace with the exploding demand?
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How to Decide What to Eat
Episode 993
Do you really need to pay quite so much attention to which foods you eat, and which you avoid?
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The Case of the Missing Beaumont Children
Episode 992
Since psychic abilities do not exist outside the delusions of true believers, involving psychics in searches for missing persons is worse than useles…
9 months, 1 week ago