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NEW - The Sunscreen Paradox: Why More Product Means More Burns
Season 2 Episode 220
Sunscreen feels like protection, but a dermatologist says it might be giving you permission to burn instead. Dr. Ivan Litvinov walks through why the …
4 weeks, 2 days ago
Five Actors Who Vanished Into Someone Else's Voice
Season 2 Episode 219
Somewhere between imitation and full transformation is where the best biopic performances live, and a new Stallone film trailer is the starting point…
1 month ago
NEW - Fewer Mouths to Feed Means Smaller Steaks, Same Price
Season 2 Episode 219
Populations are shrinking. Appetites are shrinking too, thanks to GLP-1 drugs. Food Professor Dr. Sylvain Charlebois lays out what happens when an en…
1 month ago
SHIFTHEADS: The Skies Over Thunder Bay Turned Burnt Orange
Season 2 Episode 219
Ash falling from the sky. Homes smelling like campfires from the inside. A town called Collins evacuated by boat as flames closed in. This is what fo…
1 month ago
NEW - The Last Space Shuttle Flew the Same Year Vancouver Burned
Season 2 Episode 219
NASA closed out thirty years of space shuttle missions the same year Vancouver's streets filled with flipped cars after a Stanley Cup Game 7 loss. 20…
1 month ago
NEW - Flying for Free Isn't Dead. It Just Got Harder
Season 2 Episode 219
Four years of saving points. One redemption. And the taxes and fees still took a $900 bite out of a flight that was supposed to be free. That's the m…
1 month ago
Shiftheads - The Bridge Deal Where Nobody Gets Paid Until Debt Clears
Season 2 Episode 219
A $6 billion bridge, a private partner, and a new rule that changes the usual math entirely: no profit until the debt gets repaid first. Tim Powers b…
1 month ago
ICYMI - A Human Tripod Once Caught a Falling Satellite
Season 2 Episode 219
Normally a spacewalk sends out two people. One time in NASA history, it sent out three, because a massive satellite wasn't cooperating and somebody s…
1 month ago
The Year Bitcoin Hit a Dollar and Investors bought Pizza
Season 2 Episode 219
Bitcoin crossed a dollar in 2011 and almost nobody blinked. Ed Conroy revisits the year that felt completely ordinary at the time and turns out to ha…
1 month ago
Richard Crouse: 60ft Puppets and a Self Cast AI Wanna-Be
Season 2 Episode 219
A dart hitting the stage was enough to end a Metallica show outright, no warning, no encore. Richard Crouse has the story behind one of only four tim…
1 month ago