A Treasure Worth Dying For
Imagine being so rich and so bored that you start the world's craziest, and possibly most dangerous, treasure hunt.
6 Aug 20194min
Speaking Anglish
The English language is a mess, but a very strange group of linguistic purists have a plan to fix it. You may not like the solution.
3 Aug 20194min
A Roko Idea
WARNING: Learning about the idea in this episode will either (a) ruin your life forever, or (b) induce serious eye-rolling.
15 Mai 20194min
The King of Sting
Knowledge is power, but sometimes it's also pain. Entomologist Justin O. Schmidt does what no scientist before him thought to or dared to. Justin O. Schmidt's book, "The Sting of the Wild", is availa...
1 Mai 20194min
Rock Lobster
Armor has a problem, and lobsters may have the solution.
28 Mar 20193min
A Very Fish-y Nation
How an American Pepsi lobbyist established his own country on a Canadian island and ended up in a stand off with Soviet Russia.
19 Mar 20195min
Green Eggs and Filibuster
Politicians need to get elected, meaning they know it's in their best interest to shut up at least some of the time. But there's one place — a really important one — where that doesn't apply. Hilarity...
2 Mar 20194min
We're All Ears
When it comes to intelligent life, our universe seems like a pretty lonely place. But a Russian radio engineer makes the argument that, even in a crowded party, it's hard to make friends silently.
10 Feb 20194min
