How the Marshall Plan Worked

How the Marshall Plan Worked

During a Harvard commencement speech, Secretary of State George Marshall outlined a plan to assist Europe after World War II. Listen in and learn how this 12 minute speech changed the future of Europe in this HowStuffWorks.com podcast.

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F.W. Murnau, Director of the Nosferatu

F.W. Murnau, Director of the Nosferatu

Murnau is most well known for directing the first vampire film, but the German-born creator went on to make a number of influential films before his early death. Learn more about your ad-choices at h...

21 Loka 201933min

SYMHC Classics: The Lady Who Turned to Soap

SYMHC Classics: The Lady Who Turned to Soap

We're revisiting a 2015 episode on a very fascinating corpse. Saponification is the process of turning to soap, and in certain conditions, cadavers do it. The Soap Lady is one of the most famous cases...

19 Loka 201921min

SYMHC Live: Mysteries of the Color Blue

SYMHC Live: Mysteries of the Color Blue

Blue is the most popular color in many parts of the world, and it can seem like it's everywhere. . But many ancient languages didn’t have a word for blue, and some languages still don’t. This show was...

16 Loka 201942min

Jeanne Baret

Jeanne Baret

Baret was the first woman known to circumnavigate the globe. But her experience wasn’t just about the travel – she was working, and her work took her to places that were totally unexpected for someone...

14 Loka 201932min

SYMHC Classics: The Case of the Colorado Cannibal, Alferd Packer

SYMHC Classics: The Case of the Colorado Cannibal, Alferd Packer

It's an unsettling 2012 episode! In the winter of 1873, Alferd Packer led gold prospectors into the Rockies, but harsh conditions soon set them off course. Packer was the only survivor, and he looked ...

12 Loka 201921min

Commercial Aviation in the U.S., Part 2

Commercial Aviation in the U.S., Part 2

In this episode, we’ll go from the international agreement that prepared for a global airline industry up to the deregulation of U.S. commercial aviation in the late 1970s. And then we have a special ...

9 Loka 201952min

Commercial Aviation in the U.S., Part 1

Commercial Aviation in the U.S., Part 1

Since the possibility of air travel became a reality, many entrepreneurs were trying to figure out a way to make flight into a business. This first of two parts covers those early efforts, and the gro...

7 Loka 201929min

SYMHC Classics: Beast of Gevaudan

SYMHC Classics: Beast of Gevaudan

This 2014 episode covers attacks on women and children of Gevaudan in the 1760s, which sparked a huge push to hunt and kill the mystery beast behind them. While efforts to track the animal struggled, ...

5 Loka 201928min

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