101: How a Prolific Black Inventor Hid his Race
Garrett Morgan was a prolific inventor. He invented the gas mask. The three-way traffic light. The self-extinguishing cigarette. He even created a hair care line. But, as a Black man, he had to be cre...
29 Apr 1h 22min
100: Universal Sues Nintendo (Part 2 of 2)
Nintendo couldn’t believe their luck. Their latest arcade game, Donkey Kong, had become a surprise hit. But then Universal, one of the largest media companies in the world, came knocking. They claimed...
22 Apr 1h 22min
99: The Story of Donkey Kong (Part 1 of 2)
Nintendo was in trouble. It was 1980, and they’d just poured a ton of money into an arcade game they’d hoped would be a hit. They called it Radar Scope. It was a massive flop. In a panic, the company ...
15 Apr 1h 18min
98: Hachi: The Most Loyal Dog
Hachi was just a puppy when he was adopted by a professor at Tokyo Imperial University. The two bonded instantly. Every day, Hachi greeted Professor Hidesaburo Ueno at the Shibuya Train Station as he ...
8 Apr 1h 31min
97: The Great Stink of 1858
By the mid-1800’s, the River Thames was essentially a massive sewer. People poured their waste into it. They also drank from it. That combination resulted in thousands of deaths. People weren’t sure w...
1 Apr 1h 32min
96: Snack Attack: Oreo vs. Hydrox
Prepare for battle – a cookie battle, that is! Back in the early 1900s, two brothers invented a game changing cookie. It consisted of two crisp chocolate wafers, stuck together with a vanilla cream fi...
24 Mar 1h 45min
94: Dirty Doctors: How Infection Killed James Garfield (Part 6)
Mere minutes after the shooting, a doctor arrived on the scene. Using his ungloved, unwashed fingers, he dug into President James Garfield’s bullet wound. The doctor hoped to retrieve the bullet. That...
11 Mar 1h 28min
