Lonomia: The Camouflaged Caterpillar Whose Touch Stops Blood Clotting
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A hiker in southern Brazil leans a hand against a tree trunk and feels a sharp burn. No snake, n...
10 Loka 17min
Casanova: Prison Breaker, Lottery Founder, Spy, and Fake Alchemist
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The name Casanova now means a promiscuous lover, but Giacomo Girolamo Casanova was also a law gr...
10 Loka 22min
Carlos Kaiser: The Footballer Who Faked a 14-Year Career Without Playing
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Carlos Henrique Raposo, known as Carlos Kaiser, spent 14 years as a professional footballer whil...
10 Loka 18min
Candiru: One Word Shared by a Fish, a Virus, and a Spyware Company
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Type the word Candiru into Wikipedia and you get no answer, only a question about which Candiru ...
10 Loka 20min
The CSI Effect: Did a TV Crime Drama Really Change How Juries Decide?
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A juror once complained to a judge that police had failed to dust the lawn for fingerprints. Tha...
10 Loka 27min
The Gulag: How Soviet Bureaucrats Turned Starvation Into a Work Quota
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Gulag was never a Russian word for prison. It was an acronym for a government office, the main d...
10 Loka 27min
Bull Sharks: The Ocean Predator That Swims Up Rivers and Into Lakes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!From 1996 to 2013, a lake on a golf course in Queensland, Australia held a thriving population o...
10 Loka 24min
Convicts to Australia: How Britain's Exiled Thieves Built a Nation
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Between 1784 and 1868, Britain shipped roughly 160,000 men, women, and children to penal colonie...
10 Loka 26min
