Three Nuclear Close Calls
There have been many moments in history when the world came perilously close to a full-scale nuclear war, due to false alarms or miscommunication. One such moment is the only known time that a head of...
10 Apr 201728min
Prospect Park, Part 2
In our second episode about Brooklyn's 150-year-old public park, we interview three guests, each with a unique knowledge of the park's history and its restoration in the last three decades. Learn mor...
5 Apr 201751min
Prospect Park, Part 1
Brooklyn's massive public green space tells the historical story of its community. From an undeveloped tract of land, the space was developed to become an Olmsted and Vaux masterpiece. Learn more abo...
3 Apr 201728min
Live From Salt Lake Comic Con FanX: H.P. Lovecraft
Writer H.P. Lovecraft created worlds and stories that continue to be influential more than 80 years after his death. His life story is at turns odd, sad, problematic and utterly fascinating. Learn mo...
29 Mar 201750min
Aphra Behn, Writer and Spy
There's really not a lot concretely known about the life of Aphra Behn, who, in addition to being a spy, was a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator, and the first woman in English literature known to...
27 Mar 201733min
Mongolian Princess Khutulun
Khutulun's story is a little bit cloudy, in part because it’s many hundreds of years old, and in part because accounts of her life involve a combination of propaganda and an outsider’s interpretation ...
22 Mar 201726min
Jules Cotard and the Syndrome Named After Him
Jules Cotard was the first psychiatrist to write about the cluster of symptoms that would come to be called “Walking Corpse Syndrome.” But his work was unfinished, and left a great deal of room for de...
20 Mar 201726min
The New London School Explosion
This was one of the worst disasters in Texas history, the worst school disaster in U.S. history, and it was a horrific tragedy that stemmed from a huge number of small decisions and moments. Learn mo...
15 Mar 201730min
