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Anchorites: Dead to the World, at the Center of It
Episode 5588
What if the purest solitude in the medieval world wasn't a desert cave but a room attached to a church, with three windows — one facing the altar, on…
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10 Jobs That Break the Human Body, Ranked
Episode 5587
What does it actually cost a human body to do the world's hardest work? This episode ranks the ten most physically gruelling jobs on Earth by the onl…
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The Ancient World Was More Connected Than You Think
Episode 5586
Daniel wrote in with a hypothesis: in the ancient world, long-distance travel was elite-only, the earth was thought flat, and an ordinary traveler fr…
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The Lighthouse Keeper and the Serbian Cabin
Episode 5585
What happens to a mind in true isolation — and why does one Serbian woman with a shortwave radio confound everything we think we know about hermits? …
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What Happens When Isolation Isn't Chosen
Episode 5584
Loneliness in older adults gets filed as a soft mental health story. The literature says something harder: chronic involuntary isolation carries mort…
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The Last Lighthouse Keepers: Life at the Edge of the Sea
Episode 5583
For over a century, lighthouse keepers lived inside some of the most hostile environments on earth — trimming wicks, running fog signals, and recordi…
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Who Invented the Internet? Actually, Seven People
Episode 5582
Ask who invented the internet and you'll get a clean answer — or you'll get the truth, which is messier and far more interesting. This episode starts…
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The Jerusalem Post's 1996 Bet and the Global Jewish News Race
Episode 5581
The Jerusalem Post is remembered as a polarizing outlet with a broken refresh button, yet it launched JPost.com in December 1996 — at the front of th…
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Before the Word Spy Existed: Venice's Intelligence Machine
Episode 5580
Long before anyone used the words "intelligence service," Venice built one. Historian Ioanna Iordanou argues the Republic ran a centrally organised s…
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Cutting Things With a Dremel: What Actually Works
Episode 5579
A listener's engraving tool turned out to be forty tools in one, and now he wants to know which cutting attachments are worth owning. This episode so…
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