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TOL | The World Without Sickness: Heaven or Hell?
Episode 1228
Let's play a game of 'What If.' What if, through some technological marvel, we could cure all diseases? No more cancer, no more dementia, no more hea…
1 year, 2 months ago
Urban Legends 4 | When Legends Bleed into Reality: The Satanic Panic & Real-World Harm
Episode 1227
What happens when a scary story stops being fun and starts ruining lives? This episode of Into the World of Urban Legends investigates the real-world…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Ghost in the Machine: Why We're Obsessed with Haunted Technology
Episode 1226
Remember the legend of Polybius, the 1980s arcade game that supposedly drove players mad? Or the chilling internet story of the haunted Majora's Mask…
1 year, 2 months ago
TOL | Beyond the Corner Office: What Does Success Mean to You?
Episode 1225
We're sold a one-size-fits-all picture of success: the big house, the fancy title, the overflowing bank account. But what if that picture doesn't fit…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Story of Democracy | The Human Odyssey Series
Episode 1224
For most of human history, power was simple: it was taken by force and held by blood. Kings, emperors, and pharaohs ruled by divine right, their word…
1 year, 2 months ago
Urban Legends 3 | Digital Nightmares: The Rise of the Online Legend
Episode 1223
The way we tell scary stories has changed forever. The campfire is now a global network, and new monsters are born from code and pixels. In this epis…
1 year, 2 months ago
MagTalk | Sewer Alligators and Bodies in the Bed: The Shocking Urban Legends That Are Actually True
Episode 1222
We all love a good urban legend, a story just creepy enough to make you check the backseat of your car or think twice about that weird noise downstai…
1 year, 2 months ago
TOL | Are You a Ghost in a Machine? Unraveling the Mind-Body Mystery
Episode 1221
Is your mind just a complex computer made of meat, or is it something more? This episode dives headfirst into one of philosophy's greatest puzzles: M…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Story of Earth | The Human Odyssey Series
Episode 1220
Before there was anything, there was a cloud of dust. From that cosmic dust, a planet was born—our planet. But the Earth you know, a world of blue oc…
1 year, 2 months ago
Urban Legends 2 | The Global Ghost: How One Urban Legend Changes Across the World
Episode 1219
A driver picks up a mysterious stranger on a lonely road, who then vanishes from the car. It’s a story told everywhere, but it's never the same story…
1 year, 2 months ago