Podcast Episodes

Pong

Pong is a table tennis–themed twitch arcade sports video game, featuring simple two-dimensional graphics, manufactured by Atari and originally releas…

1 year, 5 months ago

Competitive Eating, Takeru Kobayashi, and Joey Chestnut

Competitive eating, or speed eating, is a sport in which participants compete against each other to eat large quantities of food, usually in a short …

1 year, 6 months ago

Sleeping Beauty

The earliest known version of the tale is found in the French narrative Perceforest, written between 1330 and 1344.[7] Another was the Catalan poem F…

1 year, 6 months ago

The Sinking of the Whaleship Essex

Essex was an American whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, which was launched in 1799. On November 20, 1820, while at sea in the southern Paci…

1 year, 6 months ago

Carlos Kaiser

Carlos Henrique Raposo (born 2 April 1963), commonly known as Carlos Kaiser, is a Brazilian con artist and former footballer who played as a striker.…

1 year, 6 months ago

Crazy Patents

A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a …

1 year, 7 months ago

Mickey Barreto - An NYC Real Estate Loophole Story

For five years, a New York City man managed to live rent-free in a landmark Manhattan hotel by exploiting an obscure local housing law.

1 year, 7 months ago

Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL (born 26 March 1941)[3] is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author.[4] He is an emeritu…

1 year, 7 months ago

Siege Weapons and Fortifications

A siege engine is a weapon used to destroy fortifications such as defensive walls, castles, bunkers and fortified gateways.

A fortification (also c…

1 year, 7 months ago

Pied Piper and the Children's Crusade

The legend dates back to the Middle Ages. The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in multicoloured ("pied") clothing, who was a rat catcher…

1 year, 8 months ago