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Back to SearchKaren Carpenter’s Fatal Battle for Control
Episode 6329
Paul McCartney called it the greatest female voice in the world: warm, lush, and impossibly intimate. Yet the woman behind it was fighting a grueling…
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Why the universe ends with a whisper
Episode 6481
In this episode of pplpod, we explore one of the most unsettling ideas in modern cosmology: the heat death of the universe — the theory that everythi…
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Why They Really Stormed the Bastille
Episode 6482
In this episode of pplpod, we take a deep dive into what really happened during the Storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 — separating the mythol…
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Yellowstone Is Not A Ticking Bomb
Episode 6483
In this episode of pplpod, we take a deep dive beneath Yellowstone National Park to explore the real science behind one of the most misunderstood geo…
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Yukio Mishima s Violent Final Performance
Episode 6484
In this episode of pplpod, we dive into the deeply complicated life and shocking death of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, one of the most celebrated a…
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John Hanning Speke’s Fatal Nile Obsession
Episode 6328
September 15, 1864. The day before the most anticipated scientific showdown of the Victorian era, two famous explorers were to debate the true source…
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell and the Pulsar Scruff
Episode 6327
In 2018, a scientist was handed a $3 million Breakthrough Prize for a discovery she made decades earlier, a very public apology for one of the most i…
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Jeannette Rankin s solitary vote against war
Episode 6326
December 8, 1941, one day after Pearl Harbor. A 61-year-old woman hides in a Capitol phone booth, calling the police for an escort past a furious mob…
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Jane Addams From American Saint to Traitor
Episode 6325
Imagine becoming the most admired woman in America, winning a Nobel Peace Prize, and then being booed off the stage at Carnegie Hall, expelled from t…
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Invisible parking spots at Lagrange points
Episode 6324
The James Webb Space Telescope sits 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, but it isn't orbiting Earth, and it isn't quite orbiting the Sun either. It ci…
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