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Exorcism: 7 Religions, 67 Rites, Zero Records
Episode 5738
Exorcism comes from the Greek exorkismos — "binding by oath." It's a legal act, not a medical one, and it's older than any institution that codified …
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Why Measuring a $4 Spudger Tip Is Weirdly Hard
Episode 5737
Daniel wrote in with a confession — he loves his spudger, the humble pry tool every electronics tinkerer owns — and a problem: he wants to measure th…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
The UK's 14 Overseas Territories, From Pitcairn to Chagos
Episode 5736
The UK holds territory on every continent except Australia — but the fourteen British Overseas Territories and three Crown Dependencies are not the s…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
The Breaker Protects the Wire, Not You
Episode 5735
When you plug in a space heater and the breaker trips, you're seeing the end of a long chain of engineering decisions that started at the utility tra…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
USB Amps: What Actually Happens When You Plug In
Episode 5734
Daniel wrote in with a drawer full of five-volt gadgets, dubious adapters, and one big question: does the plug have to match the device's expected am…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Why Your Raspberry Pi's Wi-Fi Keeps Dropping
Episode 5733
Your Raspberry Pi's built-in Wi-Fi isn't badly designed — in an anechoic chamber it measures above -2 dB, roughly 70% efficiency. So why does the lin…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Why You Own 40 Unlabeled Power Supplies
Episode 5732
A box of forty unlabeled power supplies, exactly one of which fits — and the reason it exists is that an entire industry spent fifty years failing to…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Inside the FlyDubai Cockpit Axe Interrogation
Episode 5731
When a FlyDubai co-pilot allegedly attacked his captain with a crash axe mid-flight, the jet fell nearly 14,000 feet in under 30 seconds before off-d…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
What 4 Gs Actually Does to a Body at 17,000 Feet
Episode 5730
Seventeen thousand feet in under two minutes. That's roughly 140 feet per second — five times the descent rate any passenger has ever experienced. In…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Why There Are 1,500 Kosher Certifications
Episode 5729
The kosher aisle looks like chaos — competing seals, competing standards, competing rabbis. But the story behind it isn't modern piety run amok. It s…
2 weeks, 1 day ago