Podcast Episodes

Black Mold: Peril or Prosaic?

Episode 494

Black mold is commonly believed to harbor many deadly diseases; but in fact removing it is often worse than leaving it.

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10 years, 3 months ago

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How Real Is the Stockholm Syndrome?

Episode 493

While the Stockholm syndrome sounds like a mere media buzzword, it does actually sometimes happen.

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10 years, 4 months ago

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Pouring Cold Water on Cryotherapy

Episode 492

Questioning whether this new spa treatment provides all the medical benefits it claims.

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10 years, 4 months ago

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420: The Cannabis Code

Episode 491

Myths and competing claims fog the origin of the term 420, a slang code for marijuana.

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10 years, 4 months ago

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Deconstructing the Tasaday Tribe

Episode 490

Some say this tribe of "gentle savages", discovered in 1971, was just a hoax. The truth isn't quite so simple.

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10 years, 4 months ago

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The Science of X-Ray Specs and Sea Monkeys

Episode 489

These products advertised in the back of comic books promised improbable feats of science.

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10 years, 5 months ago

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Who Was Charles Fort?

Episode 488

This enigmatic author of the strange continues to confound.

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10 years, 5 months ago

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About That 1970s Global Cooling...

Episode 487

No, climatologists in the 1970s did not believe we're headed into another ice age.

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10 years, 5 months ago

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The Flying Saucer Menace

Episode 486

The true, interwoven history of flying saucers in American folklore.

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10 years, 5 months ago

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Holocaust Denial

Episode 485

Why some people think the Holocaust never happened, and what to do about it.

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10 years, 6 months ago

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