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The Wilderness Tool
Episode 529
Vintage crosscuts that were made between 1880 and 1930 are often the tool of choice for trail workers who maintain the country’s roughly 112 million …
3 years, 3 months ago
Twenty Thousand Hertz- Golden
The podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz is a show about the world's most interesting and recognizable sounds. I think of it as almost a sibling of 99% Invi…
3 years, 4 months ago
A Whale-Oiled Machine
Episode 528
Back when whale oil was mainly used as a fuel to burn in lanterns and streetlights, an enterprising man named William F. Nye found a new way to sell …
3 years, 4 months ago
The Lost Cities of Geo Redux
Episode 420
If we’ve learned anything from watching the turnover of tech giants like Yahoo! and MySpace, it’s that internet darlings rise and fall. And there’s …
3 years, 4 months ago
RoboUmp
Episode 527
One study from 2018 found that Major League Baseball umpires blow about 14 calls every game. That’s 34,000 bad calls every year. And it makes a diffe…
3 years, 4 months ago
Orange Alternative
Episode 526
In the 1980s a Polish anti-communist group called the Orange Alternative used cute images of a mythical creature with a tiny pointed hat to spread it…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Chinatown Punk Wars
Episode 525
When LA punks were looking for a place to play in the late 1970s, Chinatown welcomed the unruly scene. But it was an uneasy alliance that led to fier…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Day the Music Stopped
Episode 524
On Aug. 1, 1942, the nation’s recording studios went silent. Musicians were fed up with the new technologies threatening their livelihoods, so they r…
3 years, 5 months ago
Six-on-Six Basketball
Episode 523
In the 20th century, Iowa high school girls basketball was HUGE but it was not the game we know today. In 6-on-6 basketball, the three forwards only …
3 years, 5 months ago
The Comrades
Episode 522
If you live in South Africa, you definitely know someone who runs ultra-marathons, probably lots of someones. Here, ultras are the stuff of a whole c…
3 years, 5 months ago