The Great Stink: The Stench So Bad They Gave It A Name

The Great Stink: The Stench So Bad They Gave It A Name

In the summer of 1858, a heatwave dried up the Thames River to a trickle in London. As centuries’ worth of human waste, animal carcasses and other nasty things cooked in the sun, a stench arose that was so horrific it got its own name: The Great Stink.

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Short Stuff: Mystery of the Sarah Jo

Short Stuff: Mystery of the Sarah Jo

In another chapter of our continuing mysteries of the sea theme, we deliver a truly baffling mystery involving a ship that was lost and found, which brought more questions than answers.See omnystudio....

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Gobekli Tepe

Gobekli Tepe is a profoundly ancient spiritual site that shouldn’t exist, according to conventional wisdom. The massive site of columns and pictograms was built thousands of years before humans were t...

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Selects: How the Escape from Alcatraz Worked

Selects: How the Escape from Alcatraz Worked

In 1962, three ordinary criminals transcended into folk heroes when they crawled out of their cells in Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary took to the water in a homemade raft and were never heard from agai...

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The Strange Story of Lysol

The Strange Story of Lysol

The Lysol we know now is sold as disinfectant only. But at one time it was also marketed as a means of birth control. Listen in today to the twisted history of this common household product. See omnys...

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Short Stuff: Flower Power

Short Stuff: Flower Power

What we equate with acid, hippies, and garish polyester prints actually began as a theatrical way of protesting bans on free speech and the Vietnam War. When the hippies got hold of it, it definitely ...

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The Shadow Biosphere: Is There Other Life on Earth?

The Shadow Biosphere: Is There Other Life on Earth?

As far as we know life evolved once in the universe – here on Earth in the form of life as we know it. Could life have originated in other conditions with different raw materials? If so, we may be sha...

1 Okt 202442min

Selects: Rosa Parks: Agent of Change

Selects: Rosa Parks: Agent of Change

Rosa Parks finishes out our Black History Month episodes in grand fashion. While most know her from that fateful day on the Montgomery city bus, she actually had a long life as an advocate, protestor ...

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A greatest hit of the Satanic Panic of the 1980s came when the metal band Judas Priest was put on trial for the suicides of two teens. While the case was preposterous – based on alleged hidden satanic...

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