#19 - Mini-Myth: Einstein wasn’t Bad at Math
Did you struggle over long division, Buzzkillers? Did your math teacher try to console you by telling that Einstein was bad at math when he was young? Well, I hate to bust one of your cherished childh...
28 Touko 20153min
#16 - Mini-Myth: Jumping Wall Street Stockbrokers
The weather report for the morning of October 29, 1929, the day of the famous Wall Street Crash, called for falling stockbrokers. Ruined businessmen were supposed to be flinging themselves out of thei...
21 Touko 20151min
#13 - Mini-Myth: Vikings Didn’t Wear Horned Helmets into Battle
A Viking horned helmet would have been very impractical, and perhaps dangerous, in battle, Buzzkillers. There is only one depiction of a horned helmet in ancient Nordic art, and it was probably ceremo...
14 Touko 20151min
#12 - Rosa Parks
Meek and mild Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in 1950s Alabama because she was just tired after a long day at work. That’s mostly myth, and it obscures all the work that Mrs...
12 Touko 201534min
