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The Great Restoration
Episode 178
Stirling, Scotland is the home of Stirling Castle, which sits atop a giant crag, or hill, overlooking the whole town of Stirling. There has been a ca…
10 years, 6 months ago
Lawn Order
Episode 177
In communities across America, lawns that are brown or overgrown are considered especially heinous. Elite squads of dedicated individuals have been d…
10 years, 6 months ago
Hard to Love a Brute
Episode 176
No matter which James Bond actor is your favorite, it’s undeniable that the Sean Connery films had the best villains. There’s Blofeld, who turned cat…
10 years, 6 months ago
The Sunshine Hotel
Episode 175
The Bowery, in lower Manhattan, is one of New York’s oldest neighborhoods. It’s been through a lot of iterations. In the 1650s, a handful of freed sl…
10 years, 7 months ago
From the Sea, Freedom
Episode 174
In 1933, delegates from the United States and fourteen other countries met in Montevideo, Uruguay to define what it means to be a state. The resultin…
10 years, 7 months ago
Awareness
Episode 173
By the late 1980s, AIDS had been in the United States for almost a decade. AIDS had be the number one killer of young men in New York City, then of y…
10 years, 7 months ago
On Location
Episode 172
So many classic movies have been made in downtown Los Angeles. Though many don’t actually take place in downtown Los Angeles. L.A. has played almost …
10 years, 7 months ago
Johnnycab (Automation Paradox, Pt. 2)
Episode 171
More than 90% of all automobile accidents are all attributable to human error, for some car industry people, a fully-automated car is a kind of holy …
10 years, 8 months ago
Children of the Magenta (Automation Paradox, pt. 1)
Episode 170
On the evening of May 31, 2009, 216 passengers, three pilots, and nine flight attendants boarded an Airbus 330 in Rio de Janeiro. This flight, Air Fr…
10 years, 8 months ago
Freud’s Couch
Episode 169
Sigmund Freud’s ground-breaking techniques and theories for therapy came to be called “psychoanalysis,” and it was embodied, in practice and popular …
10 years, 8 months ago