What's Up with Space Food?
If your parents ever took you to a science museum or planetarium as a child, you likely spent much of your visit in the gift shop, begging them to buy you one of the hundreds of shiny – and purportedl...
9 Loka 202529min
What is Up with the Van Allen Belts and How Did Astronauts Survive Flying Through Them?
The shadows go in different directions! The flag is waving in a vacuum! The lander didn’t dig a crater! You can’t see any stars! It was all filmed on a soundstage by Stanley Kubrick! If any of these s...
9 Loka 202536min
What was Hitler Like as a Child? And was His Grandfather Really Jewish?
While just about everyone is abundantly familiar with Adolf Hitler’s exploits in the latter half of his life, an often missed part of the once proclaimed “German Messiah’s” history is that of his chil...
8 Loka 202549min
The Twisting, Turning Tale of the Invention of Dr Pepper
When the sun scorches the earth, when incandescent air burns your lungs, and especially when that glucose curve dips at 10, 2 and 4 in the afternoon … well, there is nothing better than grabbing an ic...
7 Loka 202530min
So What Happens Exactly When Someone Wins the Lottery?
Winning a big ticket lottery very often isn’t all that it cracked up to be and despite a windfall of cash, a surprising number of winners have gone on record as saying winning the lottery was the wors...
6 Loka 202536min
The Weird, Wacky, and Hilarious World of Animal Mating
As anyone who’s perused the internet knows, arguably the most bizarre mating practices of all can be found among humans, with Rule 34 being a rather immutable law of nature. But it turns out, other an...
4 Loka 202552min
The Forgotten First Major Public Nuclear Disaster
When one thinks of nuclear nations, the United Kingdom usually doesn’t spring to mind. But Old Blighty has a long and impressive record of nuclear accomplishments dating back to the very origins of th...
30 Syys 202550min
How Does Darth Vader Poop?
“You always remember the bad guy.” These were the words of the late David Prowse, the man who physically portrayed Darth Vader in the original trilogy and it’s kind of ridiculous just how right he was...
28 Syys 202528min
