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Masterly Inactivity Versus Micromanaging
Season 2 Episode 9
Lady Sale (played by Helena Bonham Carter) was part of a bloody and ignominious British retreat from Afghanistan in 1842. The arrogant colonial invad…
4 years, 10 months ago
Demonizing Dungeons & Dragons
Season 2 Episode 8
When James Dallas Egbert III was reported missing from his college dorm - one of America's most flamboyant private detectives was summoned to solve t…
4 years, 10 months ago
Number Fever: How Pepsi Nearly Went Pop
Season 2 Episode 7
Pepsi twice ended up in court after promotions went disastrously wrong. Other big companies have fallen into the same trap - promising customers rewa…
4 years, 10 months ago
The Curse of Knowledge Meets The Valley of Death
Season 2 Episode 6
Why were soldiers on horseback told to ride straight into a valley full of enemy cannon? The disastrous "Charge of the Light Brigade" is usually blam…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Dunning Kruger Hijack (and Other Criminally Stupid Acts)
Season 2 Episode 5
The hijackers of flight 961 wanted its pilot to fly them to Australia - and wouldn't listen to his pleas that there simply wasn't enough fuel for the…
4 years, 11 months ago
Catching a KiIler Doctor
Season 2 Episode 4
Family doctor Harold Shipman got away with murdering his patients for decades. He was one of the most prolific serial killers in history - but his hu…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Art Forger, the Nazi, and "The Pope"
Season 2 Episode 3
"The Pope" was a revered Dutch art expert - and yet he fell for a not very convincing forgery of a "lost" Vermeer masterpiece. The forger had duped o…
4 years, 11 months ago
Florence Nightingale and Her Geeks Declare War on Death
Season 2 Episode 2
Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played by her distant cousin Helena Bonham Carter) is a hero of modern medicine - but her greatest contribution…
5 years ago
Martin Luther King Jr, the Jewelry Genius, and the Art of Public Speaking
Season 2 Episode 1
One speechmaker inspired millions with his words, the other utterly destroyed his own multi-million-dollar business with just a few phrases.
Civil rig…
5 years ago
Bonus: Why We Believe What Isn't True (with Axios Today)
We're no stranger to stories about misinformation or deliberate disinformation. We live in a world where now more than ever, you have to be skeptical…
5 years ago