Selects: How Freak Shows Worked

Selects: How Freak Shows Worked

Not too long ago, people would pay money to gawk and stare at a performer with a physical disformity. They were called freak shows and they began in large part thanks to P.T. Barnum, whose circus we still enjoy today. Sounds awful, but some of these performers became rich folks as a result. Exploitive? You decide, after taking in this classic episode.

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Selects: How Fever Dreams Work

Selects: How Fever Dreams Work

Fever dreams can be unsettling experiences. These ramped up nightmares are vivid, detailed and only happen when the human body experiences a fever. What is it about the combination of fevers and dream...

25 Apr 35min

UNESCO World Heritage: Preserving the Best of Humanity

UNESCO World Heritage: Preserving the Best of Humanity

Humanity’s created a lot of neat things over the eons and starting in the 1940s, the UN created an agency focused on preserving those things for the whole world and future people. But that mission is ...

23 Apr 41min

Short Stuff: Brown-Headed Cowbird

Short Stuff: Brown-Headed Cowbird

There’s a kind of bird that lots of people think is a real jerk. And it kind of is. But in the brown-headed cowbird’s defense, it’s just evolved that way. Find out why it has such a bad reputation amo...

22 Apr 11min

Some Silly Inventions That Became Wildly Popular

Some Silly Inventions That Became Wildly Popular

Once in a while someone comes up with a solution for a problem we didn’t know we had, and maybe even a problem that didn’t even exist. Even more rarely, the stars align just right so that some crackpo...

21 Apr 42min

Selects: Sammy Davis Jr: National Treasure

Selects: Sammy Davis Jr: National Treasure

In this classic episode Josh and Chuck sit down and detail the complicated life of the late, great Sammy Davis Jr.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

18 Apr 56min

The Sewol Ferry Disaster

The Sewol Ferry Disaster

In 2014 a ferry carrying hundreds of South Korean high school students on a field trip sunk, killing almost everyone on board. Hauntingly, their deaths were fully avoidable: everyone from the dock ins...

16 Apr 45min

Short Stuff: Cherry Blossoms

Short Stuff: Cherry Blossoms

The Japanese Cherry Blossom is a sight to behold. But how did they get to Washington D.C.?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

15 Apr 12min

Are Generations Even a Thing?

Are Generations Even a Thing?

We all love to tour our generation's superiority, but who decides where the split occurs and what to name it? And is this even a thing or just an arbitrary division?See omnystudio.com/listener for pri...

14 Apr 49min

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