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 d...
The idea that we aren’t the first advanced civilization to live on Earth sounds like a fringe theory, but it raises a good question: How can we be so...
Even the dullest hockey game is worth seeing when the Zamboni comes out to resurface the ice.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Taking care of 12,000 tons of residential trash every day is a hard job. But how does that even work? Listen in to marvel at the NYC sanitation system...
Despite as much as one percent of the adult population having the condition, science doesn't actually know how stuttering works. The best it's come up...
Sometimes you just have to turn it off for a while – all the thinking, and overthinking, analyzing, and figuring out. Sometimes it’s nice to just brea...
We all know the story of the Titanic and the tragedy of lives lost. So hey, let's talk about the survivors for a change!See omnystudio.com/listener fo...
Misophonia is a condition in which certain sounds trigger people in very negative ways that can really disrupt someone's life. Listen in today to lear...
As if being murdering SOBs weren’t enough, the Nazis were also thieving rats. During WWII, they stole billons in gold from countries they overran and...
The only thing more complicated than an atomic clock is researching how they work and then figuring out how to explain it to other people. But believe...
Getting the wind knocked out of you is scary, but passes quickly. Learn exactly what's happening with all that today.See omnystudio.com/listener for p...
The Village People were a smash hit singing group that came and went in under two years. Then other people performed under that name for several decad...
If you've ever been to an international airport, you've probably seen one of the keenest spotters of illegal contraband - The Beagle Brigade! These cu...
Georgia Tann was a bad human. We feel safe in saying that because she kidnapped babies from poor families to sell to wealthy ones. Listen in if you ca...
Not too much is known about Margaret Schilling. She was the kind of person whose memory might have been lost to time had she not left behind an indeli...
You probably know wind energy projects have been around since the 90s, but did you know they now provide 10% of America’s energy, and more than that i...
Special effects have been around since the first movies. In fact, the techniques the earliest filmmakers created are still around today, we just use c...
Today we go down the road a bit, thumbs out, to explore the rich history of hitchhiking. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Few people have been more qualified to survive a plane crash alone in the Amazon for almost two weeks than Juliane Koepcke. Let’s hear her story.See o...
Arson investigation has changed a lot over the years. There is actual science available now, but the word still hasn't totally gotten out. Listen in t...
