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War and Pizza
Episode 186
Households tend to take pantry food for granted, but canned beans, powered cheese, and bags of moist cookies were not designed for everyday convenien…
10 years, 10 months ago
Atmospherians
Episode 185
The phrase ‘from Central Casting’ has become a kind of cultural shorthand for a stereotype or archetype, a subject so visually suited to its part it …
10 years, 11 months ago
Structural Integrity (Rebroadcast)
Episode 110
When the (0:43) 601 Lexington / Citicorp Tower was completed in 1977, the 59-story skyscraper had a potentially fatal flaw that could have caused it …
10 years, 11 months ago
Rajneeshpuram
Episode 184
Indian philosopher and mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh had a vision: he would build a Utopian city from the ground up, starting with 64,000 acres of mu…
10 years, 11 months ago
Dead Letter Office
Episode 183
When something is lost in the mail, it feels like it has disappeared into the ether, like it was sucked into a black hole, like it no longer exists. …
10 years, 11 months ago
A Sweet Surprise Awaits You
Episode 182
On the night of March 30, 2005, the Powerball jackpot was 25 million dollars. The grand prize winner was in Tennessee, but all over the United States…
10 years, 11 months ago
Milk Carton Kids
Episode 181
On a Sunday morning in 1982, in Des Moines, Iowa, Johnny Gosch left his house to begin his usual paper route. A short time later, his parents were aw…
11 years ago
Reefer Madness
Episode 180
There are around 6,000 cargo vessels out on the ocean right now, carrying 20,000,000 shipping containers, which are delivering most of the products y…
11 years ago
Bathysphere
Episode 179
In 1860, a chance find at sea forever changed our understanding of marine habitats, sparking an unprecedented push to explore a new world of possibil…
11 years ago
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…
11 years ago