Podcast Episodes

Faking Your Own Death: We All Do It, But Why?

Face it, when things get desperate we all consider faking our death as an easy way out. But what they don’t tell you in school is that it’s much hard…

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Selects: Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry

In the early 90s a video game was released that changed the industry, despite poor sales and bad game play. That game was Night Trap. In this classic…

1 year ago

The Cliffs Notes on Cliffs Notes

When a man named Cliff packaged book summaries in yellow and black booklets he changed the way kids learned. But was he just creating a cheat code?

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Short Stuff: Figs & Wasps

Today Chuck and Josh look at the interesting relationship between figs and wasps.

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Plant-Based Diets

You don’t have to be a hardcore vegan to eat a plant-based diet (although you can be). There’s a whole variety of degrees people adopt phasing out me…

1 year ago

Selects: How Ice Cream Works

We all scream for ice cream, sure, but did you know we're all technically screaming about a colloidal foam? As you hit play on this classic episode, …

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We Got to Sesame Street

One of the longest-running television shows in history is also one of the best. Sesame Street was conceived as a radical idea – to give disadvantaged…

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Short Stuff: Drop Bears

Australia is home to all sorts of things that can kill you, but perhaps the deadliest is the drop bear, a vicious cousin of the koala.

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Fentanyl: Actually As Dangerous As They Say

Around 2013 heroin users in the US and other countries suddenly started dying from overdose in previously-unseen numbers. The culprit turned out to b…

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Selects: Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness

Muzak got a bad reputation as bland garbage music. In this classic episode, we aim to set the record straight.

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