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Victorians Got Super Weird With Flirting, Part Two: Courtship and Calling Cards
Cast your mind back to the Victorian Era, when countless singles and would-be paramours struggled to circumvent strict social mores in the search for…
1 year, 4 months ago
Victorians Got Super Weird With Flirting, Part One: "Fan Fiction"
The Victorian Era was, on the surface, a time of almost cartoonish sexual repression. Courtship was governed by rigid sets of rules and heirarchy, an…
1 year, 4 months ago
Why did people hate the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge?
Nowadays most people are fans of national parks, but this wasn't always the case. Join the guys as they delve into the strange "birds vs. babies" con…
1 year, 4 months ago
First Ladies Who Weren't Wives, Part One: The Niece Will Have To Do
For more than two hundred years, the American public has elected not just a president, but a family. While the position of First Lady of the United S…
1 year, 4 months ago
Some of History's Funniest Honorifics, Part One: The Babymaker, the Debauchee, and More
Honorifics are perhaps best described as the fancier version of nicknames, with some of the same familiar rules: just like nicknames, you don't get t…
1 year, 5 months ago
IP, Part Two: The Baffling World of Trademarks
What does it mean to own an idea, a brand, a catchphrase or a concept? In part two of their continuing exploration of the weird world of intellectual…
1 year, 5 months ago
A Ton of Inventors Died Due To Their Own Inventions, Chapter Two: Li Si and the Five Pains
The world is riddled with inventors whose discoveries led to their demise. Thomas Midgley, Jr. is the world's worst inventor. Marie Curie discovered …
1 year, 5 months ago
CLASSIC: The 1904 Racist Summer Olympic Games in St. Louis
A few years after Baron Pierre de Coubertin revived the ancient sporting event known as the Olympics, he brought the games to the U.S. for the first …
1 year, 5 months ago
The Ridiculously Ambitious History of the World's Fair, Part Two: Things Don't Always Work Out
On paper -- and, often, in practice -- the world's fair is an astonishing global showcase of groundbreaking innovations. However, as Ben, Noel and Ma…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Ridiculously Ambitious History of the World's Fair, Part One: A Crazy Plan, and Crazy Success
Have you ever dreamed of going to a science fair as an adult? If so, the world's fair is for you -- these massive international exhibitions occur aro…
1 year, 5 months ago