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Captain Kidd's Treasure
Episode 481
Think you're going to find Captain Kidd's buried treasure on the US east coast? Think again.
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The Nazi of Nanking
Episode 480
This most unlikely of guardian angels saved hundreds of thousands of Chinese lives.
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Chemicals
Episode 479
Chemicals are deadly, delicious, essential and basically, everything.
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Listener Feedback: Natural History
Episode 478
Today we're going to answer questions sent in by listeners pertaining to episodes having to do with our natural world.
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Wag the Dogman
Episode 477
They say that a half-canine cryptid stalks the woods of Northern Michigan. Are they right?
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The Chess-Playing Mechanical Turk
Episode 476
An overview of the amazing chess playing robot of the 1700s.
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Listener Feedback: History vs. Pseudohistory
Episode 475
Brian responds to listener feedback about past history episodes.
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Solfeggio Frequencies
Episode 474
Certain specific sonic frequencies are not the key to love, intuition, or spiritual order.
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The Loveland Frog
Episode 473
A series of sightings of a frog-like humanoid in the suburb of Loveland, Ohio prompts an enduring folkloric legend.
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Lysenko and Lesser Science Grifters
Episode 472
Trofim Lysenko mixed pseudoscience and ideology to set back Soviet biology.
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