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Animals On Trial, Part 2: Legal Personhood "Goes Wild"
Given that more and more evidence shows all kinds of non-human animals are capable of experiencing grief, loss, joy and pain, should they not have so…
2 years, 8 months ago
Animals On Trial, Part 1: Tons of Animals Went to Kangaroo Courts
While the the concept of a court system is an entirely human invention, it turns out non-human animals have been in some sort of court not once, but …
2 years, 8 months ago
Broken Arrows, Part 2: In Which Actions Have Consequence
In part two of this special two-part series, Ben, Noel and Max dive further into the (objectively disturbing) truth about just how many nuclear weapo…
2 years, 8 months ago
Broken Arrows, Part 1: Whoops, Where's Our Nuke?
Nuclear weapons are one of the most dangerous things humanity ever invented. So while we might reasonably assume people would keep a close eye on the…
2 years, 8 months ago
New Providence: That Time Pirates Had A Government
The so-called Golden Age of Piracy was a time of lawless, terrifying, at-times amazing and objectively ridiculous history. In today's episode, Ben, N…
2 years, 8 months ago
Tons of People Married Their First Cousins
What do Albert Einstein, Jesse James and Saddam Hussein have in common? Like many notable figures throughout history, these men ended up marrying the…
2 years, 8 months ago
Lost Media, Part 2: The Magnificent Ambersons
True story: Orson Welles has a film no one will ever see. In the second part of this continuing series, the guys explore "The Magnificent Ambersons,"…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Ridiculous History of "Snake Oil"
Nowadays, "snake oil" usually means a fake medicine or treatment that claims -- with no evidence -- to cure any number of medical conditions. But whe…
2 years, 9 months ago
Badass of the Week, Part 2: Rise of the Kung Fu Werewolf
Everyone can agree the story of T'ai Djin is amazing -- he was born afflicted with a rare genetic condition that made him look like a werewolf, was a…
2 years, 9 months ago
Badass of the Week, Part 1: An Origin Story
What makes an historical figure larger than life? Since 2004, author and historian Ben Thompson has been writing about the most badass people in hist…
2 years, 9 months ago