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Back to SearchBill Gates: From Software Tycoon and Monopolist to the World's Most Embattled Philanthropist
Episode 7131
Bill Gates built Microsoft into the most dominant software company in history, survived an antitrust trial that nearly broke it apart, and then reinv…
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar: Calculating the Sun's Fate and the Atomic Bomb's Power
Episode 7128
The same physics that explains how stars live and die also explained how to build a weapon that could destroy cities. This episode explores the scien…
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Aldous Huxley: The Final LSD Trip and the Chilling Warnings That Proved More Right Than Orwell's
Episode 7125
Aldous Huxley asked his wife to inject him with LSD as he lay dying of cancer on November 22, 1963 — the same day Kennedy was shot. His death was bur…
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George Orwell: The Eton Rebel Who Lived Among the Poor and Wrote 1984 While Dying
Episode 7132
George Orwell was an Eton-educated colonial policeman who quit the British Empire, deliberately lived among tramps and miners to understand poverty f…
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Cyrus McCormick: The Reaper Baron Whose Invention Myth Was More Fiction Than Fact
Episode 7129
Cyrus McCormick is credited with inventing the mechanical reaper that revolutionized American agriculture — but the real story is messier. His father…
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Gottlieb Daimler: The Secret Engine Shed Where the Automobile Was Really Born
Episode 7133
Gottlieb Daimler built the first practical gasoline engine in a garden shed so secretive that his neighbors reported him to the police, convinced he …
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Bela Bartok: The Composer Who Carried a Muddy Phonograph Into the Mountains to Save Dying Music
Episode 7126
Bela Bartok hauled a primitive phonograph through the villages and mountains of Hungary, Romania, and North Africa, recording folk music that was dis…
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George Westinghouse: The Inventor-Industrialist Who Powered the Modern World and Lost to Edison's PR Machine
Episode 7134
George Westinghouse championed alternating current, backed Nikola Tesla, won the War of Currents against Edison, and built the electrical infrastruct…
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Enzo Ferrari: The Racing Obsessive Whose Cars Killed Drivers and Made Him a Legend
Episode 7130
Enzo Ferrari built the most iconic car brand in history not because he loved cars but because he loved racing — and he needed to sell road cars to fu…
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C.S. Lewis: The Atheist Scholar Who Became Christianity's Most Persuasive Modern Defender
Episode 7127
C.S. Lewis was a committed atheist and Oxford medievalist who converted to Christianity and became its most effective popular apologist since G.K. Ch…
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