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Conductors: What the heck is going on there?
You've probably been to a symphony performance and wondered, what in the heck are conductors doing up there anyway? Well we're here to explain that a…
1 year, 11 months ago
Selects: What are think tanks all about?
Think tanks? More like stink tanks! We're kidding. Think tanks do valuable work, when they operate in a non-partisan way of course. Learn all about t…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Guinness Book of Records
If you grew up in the 70s and 80s in America, you probably have the image of your tattered Guinness Book of Records. The book was ubiquitous then, bu…
2 years ago
Short Stuff: What's a mudlarker?
Mudlarking is a uniquely British hobby, though you can dig through river mud anywhere there's a river. But the Thames has the good stuff.
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2 years ago
The shameful and harrowing story Unit 731
Unit 731 was a secret group within the Japanese Army in WWII that committed unspeakable atrocities against humans in the name of scientific research.…
2 years ago
Selects: How Vomit Phobia Works
No one - no one - likes to vomit, but there are some people who would prefer to die rather than vomit, people who spend their days worrying they will…
2 years ago
J. Edgar Hoover: Evil G-Man Pt. 2
In the exciting conclusion of our two-part episode on Hoover, we come in at the Cold War and end on a strange note.
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2 years ago
Short Stuff: Hobo Signs
By definition hobos are people who travel from town to town taking odd jobs as they go. But some towns are friendlier than others, and hobos develope…
2 years ago
J. Edgar Hoover: Evil G-Man Pt. 1
It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that J. Edgar Hoover was perhaps the most powerful American of the 20th century. By the time he established th…
2 years ago
Selects: The Great War of the Worlds Panic Myth
On Halloween 1938 young radio star Orson Welles scared the pants off of America with a fictional news bulletin claiming Martians had landed and were …
2 years ago