The Mysterious Death of Yuri Gagarin
On a snowy, blustery morning in March 1968, a two-man MiG-15 UTI jet took off from Chkalov air force base outside Moscow on a routine training flight. Barely ten minutes later, the aircraft’s pilot ra...
9 Kesä 202554min
How Government Works, When Does the U.S. Government Debt Become Unsustainable, And Much More
We live in, shall we say, politically divisive times… which, contrary to some’s belief, is no different than really any other point since humans started humaning. From Ancient Rome to relatively more ...
6 Kesä 20251h 24min
What's So Special About McDonald's Fries?
Ah, McDonald’s French Fries. According to a poll we recently ran here, 48% of about 42,000 of you prefer this restaurant’s slender tan starch sticks to all the other restaurant tuber cutting offerings...
4 Kesä 202540min
What's It Actually Like to Be an Amish Person?
As humans continue to rapidly accelerate to replacing ourselves with robot overlords or otherwise see if we can’t make Wall-E into a prophetic mocumentary, one group of homosapiens refuses to go qui...
3 Kesä 202556min
Who was the Most Prolific Serial Killer of All Time?
In the pantheon of worst humans to ever human you will find no shortage of bastions of awful. Hitler probably has the most collective conscious panache, but at least he had the decency to bravely, a...
17 Touko 202535min
That Time the Postal Service Tried Sending Mail Via Missile
In this episode of The BrainFood Show, we're looking at that time the British tried to replace parachutes with rockets, that time the United States tried sending U.S. Postal Service mail via missile...
16 Touko 20251h 35min
Lies! The Truth About the Tesla vs Edison Feud
If there’s two things the internet knows about Nikola Tesla, it’s that he was a genius scientist vastly ahead of his time, and that thanks to a many decades long feud with Thomas Edison which included...
9 Touko 20251h 48min
Is There Any Hard Evidence That Jesus Actually Existed?
In this episode, Simon delves into the historical and archaeological records, exploring theories and debates surrounding one of history's most significant religious figures. Author: Daven Hiskey H...
7 Touko 202531min
