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The Greatest Oscar Snubs
Episode 2078
Every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosts the biggest celebration of movies and moviemaking: The Oscars.
Thousands of members…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The North American Bison
Episode 2077
For thousands of years, one animal shaped the ecology, culture, and history of an entire continent.
In vast herds that once numbered in the tens of …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
North Sentinel Island
Episode 2076
In the Indian Ocean lies an island notorious for its extreme isolation from the outside world: North Sentinel Island.
The Sentinelese, who call Nort…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Purple Heart
Episode 2075
Among all the decorations awarded by the United States military, one stands apart.
It is not given for bravery, leadership, or extraordinary achieve…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Harlem Renaissance
Episode 2074
In the early decades of the twentieth century, a neighborhood in New York City became the center of an extraordinary cultural explosion.
Writers, mu…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Skylab
Episode 2073
In the early 1970s, after the triumph of landing on the Moon, NASA faced a question: what comes next?
The answer was Skylab, America’s first space s…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Ivan Pavlov and His Dogs
Episode 2072
At the turn of the 20th century, a Russian physiologist made a discovery that would fundamentally change how we understand learning and behavior.
Wh…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Mexican Revolution
Episode 2071
After Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821, hopes for democracy gradually gave way to decades of instability and dictatorship.
By the early…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Who is Alan Smithee
Episode 2070
If you look at the Internet Movie Database, one of the most prolific directors over the last 70 years has been Alan Smithee.
He has been credited wi…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The East African Slave Trade
Episode 2069
Most people are familiar with the transatlantic slave trade, which enslaved over ten million people over a period of centuries.
Fewer people are awar…
1 month, 4 weeks ago